Posted on 09/21/2006 4:44:21 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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Christine Todd Whitman, the former Governor of New Jersey, long ago assumed the leadership of the liberal, pro-abortion wing of the Republican Party.
She recently formed a political action committee named It’s My Party Too (IMP-PAC)
Whitman’s PAC, which supports pro-abortion candidates who are Republican, has announced its partnership with the National Republican Senatorial Committee headed by Senator Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), the homosexual group known as Log Cabin Republicans, Planned Parenthood Republicans for Choice, the Main Street Coalition, Republicans for Choice, organized in 1990 to attempt to remove the pro-life plank from the Republican Party Platform, Republican Governor’s Association, The WISH List (Women in the Senate and House), a group that supports pro-abortion Republican women candidates for Congress, and the Republican Majority for Choice, among others.
It’s My Party Too and its partners have combined financial resources amounting to tens of millions of dollars to be expended on the campaigns of congressional candidates who staunchly support Roe v. Wade and our nation’s current public policy of legal abortion until the moment of birth.
http://tinyurl.com/qalhd
Multi-millionaire developer Trammell Crow will host a reception for "It's My Party Too PAC" at his Dallas estate on September 20, 2006, and Mrs. Whitman will be introduced along with her book, "It's My Party Too."
The invitation lists Christine Todd Whitman as the chair of the PAC along with its national board of directors, who are: Susan Cullman (NY), The Honorable John Danforth (MO), The Honorable Robert Dole (KS), [U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole is Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee which is a partner with It's My Party Too PAC], The Honorable Lawrence Eagleburger (VA), David Eisenhower (PA), Julie Nixon Eisenhower (PA), The Honorable Tom Kean (NJ), James B. Nicholson (MI), The Honorable Tom Ridge (PA), Charles Royce (CT), The Honorable Alan Simpson (WY), Candace Straight (NJ), The Honorable Jane Swift (MA).
Christine Todd Whitman and her friends have extensive connections across the country with "country club" Republicans and others across the country with lots of money and influence. Like Whitman, many of these people wouldn't even support a ban on partial-birth abortion, for fear it would lend momentum to the pro-life movement.
http://tinyurl.com/mewul
Log Cabin Applauds Governor Whitman's New Effort to Build a Mainstream GOP New Organization Will Promote Fiscally Conservative and Socially Moderate Republicans. Former New Jersey Governor, Christine Todd Whitman, has announced the formation of a new organization, Its My Party Too PAC (IMP-PAC). "Governor Whitman is a powerful voice for real Republican values. Log Cabin is proud to be a strategic partner of IMP-PAC. Log Cabin looks forward to joining Governor Whitman in the battle for the Republican Party's heart and soul," said Log Cabin Republicans President Patrick Guerriero.
Previous Log Cabin awards have been given to Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R-CT), Gov. William Weld (R-MA), Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R-NJ), California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson, Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. John Danforth (R-MO), Mayor Richard Riordan (R-L.A.), U.S. Rep. Mary Bono (R-CA), U.S. Rep. Tom Campbell (R-CA), and U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), among many others.
John McCain, and Elizabeth Dole on the campaign trail, that Christine Todd Whitman, or anyone else who has so little regard for innocent human life, is unacceptable as a vice-presidential running mate or as a presidential appointee. Are we "marginalized?" Hardly. Pro-life conservatives still hold the key to a Republican victory and we’re not afraid to lock the door and throw the key away.
Does John McCain Stand For Anything?
McCain has now aligned himself with a new movement to bolster pro-choice Republicans. Christine Todd Whitman started IMP-PAC as an adjunct to her book, It's My Party, Too, and an effort to expand the influence of pro-choicers. The strategic partners for IMP-PAC include Planned Parenthood, two different Republican pro-choice groups, and WISH List, which supports pro-choice women for Republican primaries. According to the National Review's Kelly Conway, John McCain has joined its advisory board.
As a member of the IMP-PAC Steering Committee, the letter suggests, you might rub shoulders with such members of its Advisory Board as former President Gerald Ford, former U.S. Senator Bob Dole and Senator John McCain.
Does Senator McCain stand for anything except elections any more?
http://tinyurl.com/zk8ds
Whitman said the 2008 presidential election will be especially important for political moderates because neither the president nor the vice president will be running for another term.
A moderate Republican such as former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani or Arizona Sen. John McCain would be poised to capture attention from voters who are turned off by the strident edges of the major political parties, she said.
"We are a purple country, we're not a country of red states and blue states," she said.
http://tinyurl.com/g9lsd
I don't see any purple states on this map. Do you?!!!
http://tinyurl.com/7z87d
John McCain's Move to the Middle
by Robert B. Bluey — 09-05-2006
Sen. John McCain's Straight Talk America PAC today is trumpeting its newest addition: Michigan native Jim Nicholson, who will serve as the Michigan state finance chairman of the PAC.
The only problem is that McCain's embrace of Nicholson risks further alienating the conservative base in Michigan. After recently campaigning on behalf of liberal Rep. Joe Schwarz, who was defeated by conservative Tim Walberg last month, McCain cannot afford another mistake -- especially with Gov. Mitt Romney (R.-Mass.) courting Michigan Republicans.
Nicholson, although certainly an asset for McCain to have in Michigan for his '08 presidential run, is a member of the board of directors at liberal Christine Todd Whitman's It's My Party Too PAC. Although we don't know Jim Nicholson, his bio certainly paints him as a supporter of causes such as public broadcasting and liberal environmental policies.
http://tinyurl.com/rdtjv
She sold practically NO books. It had to be re-written because she was convinced Dubya was going to lose the election. She doesn't get it and never will.
So Mccain is seeking out other rinos, what else is new.
What a stupid schmuck
All those years the left was snipping away at the moral fabric of this country, there wasn't a problem. Christians who finally got tired of the meddling start trying to sew it back together and WE are the problem? I don't think so.
Christie’s Party: Hold Off On That RSVP
By Carol Turoff
The “insidious threat posed by far right-wing extremists” puts a crimp in jovial party plans.
It would not be an exaggeration to say I was a bit giddy when I saw the envelope from Christie. Addressed to me personally, it took on a festive air, since in the upper left-hand corner, it plainly read, “It’s My Party, Too.” Of course, I thought it was an invitation.
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“Dear Carol,” the missive began. “It is no exaggeration to say we are at a turning point in American politics. The Republican Party is headed down a slippery slope and if we don’t do something about it soon, our ‘Grand Old Party’ won’t be grand for long.”
Whoa! This is not exactly the message I was expecting from Christie. After all, we’re both Republicans. I continued reading, hoping for an indication if this was to be dinner or hors d’oeuvres and cocktails.
“Carol,” she fairly screamed from the emphatically underlined words, “We can’t allow a few extremists to hijack our Party, dictate our ideology, attack our moderate candidates, and alienate centrist Republicans.”
The terms “moderate” and “centrist” raised my antenna just a bit, but I read on. Eventually, she does extend a genial invitation, although not to a celebration. Christie would be “honored,” she gushes, to have me join her It’s My Party, Too PAC Steering Committee–endearingly known as IMP-PAC. The suggested amount to qualify for this honor starts with $2000 and cascades down to a measly $250.
Throughout the one page letter, my pal, Christie, cautions me about the insidious threat of “far-right extremists” no fewer than three times. Finally, she identifies them as opponents of “embryonic stem-cell research.” Although the word “abortion” undeniably jumps off the page, it is intriguingly absent from the text of her letter. Could be she’s seen the Gallop and Zogby polls which indicate significant declines in support of abortion, especially among the nation’s younger voters.
As a Republican, Gov. Christine Todd Whitman appears remarkably unfamiliar with the portions of her Party’s Platform addressing these issues:
http://tinyurl.com/r9b53
Jack Danforth is among the primary supporters of a petition in Missouri, assuming collection of 150,000 valid signatures, which would legalize therapeutic cloning AND enshrine it into the state constitution. Naturally, the wording of the petition does not call it "therapeutic cloning," but that's what it is.
For more information visit the website, www.nocloning.org.
Onward, Moderate Christian Soldiers
By JOHN C. DANFORTH
Published: June 17, 2005
St. Louis
IT would be an oversimplification to say that America's culture wars are now between people of faith and nonbelievers. People of faith are not of one mind, whether on specific issues like stem cell research and government intervention in the case of Terri Schiavo, or the more general issue of how religion relates to politics. In recent years, conservative Christians have presented themselves as representing the one authentic Christian perspective on politics. With due respect for our conservative friends, equally devout Christians come to very different conclusions.
http://tinyurl.com/cab5u
Many conservative Christians approach politics with a certainty that they know God's truth, and that they can advance the kingdom of God through governmental action. So they have developed a political agenda that they believe advances God's kingdom, one that includes efforts to "put God back" into the public square and to pass a constitutional amendment intended to protect marriage from the perceived threat of homosexuality.
When we see an opportunity to save our neighbors' lives through stem cell research, we believe that it is our duty to pursue that research, and to oppose legislation that would impede us from doing so.
We think that efforts to haul references of God into the public square, into schools and courthouses, are far more apt to divide Americans than to advance faith.
Following a Lord who reached out in compassion to all human beings, we oppose amending the Constitution in a way that would humiliate homosexuals.
http://tinyurl.com/cab5u
"constitutional amendment to allow school prayer. He was against it."
Danforth, 67, is an ordained Episcopal priest and a three-term senator, Danforth has evolved into homilist to the mighty, shepherding Washington society over to the other side. He has officiated at funerals for former senators John Heinz and John Chafee, former secretary of commerce Malcolm Baldrige and, more recently, Katharine Graham.
Danforth has stepped into this role partly because he's a clergyman but also because he's not too overtly religious. In the late '80s, an era when the religious right was blooming, Danforth took great pains to keep his day job separate. One of his chief aides, Susan Schwab, recalls him mentioning faith only once on the Senate floor, during a debate over a constitutional amendment to allow school prayer. He was against it.
"He's not a holier-than-thou type," Schwab says. "He's always been called upon to do this sophisticated juxtaposition of faith and politics."
http://tinyurl.com/oc4lq
With his new book "Faith and Politics," in stores next week, Danforth—now 70 and retired—positions himself as an outsider. He takes his own beloved party to task for allowing itself to be hijacked by the Christian right.
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Most revelatory are his recollections of his role in the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court in 1991. A devoted friend and supporter of Thomas's, Danforth did everything he could to discredit Anita Hill. "I am a real admirer of Clarence Thomas," he says, "and ... I found myself in this fight and I felt really beleaguered. It was a fight without any rules. It was a brawl, and I'm sorry I was involved in it, but I was. Would I have done it differently? I don't know. It was.... It was the worst thing I've ever done in my life." He's not taking it back, but he is taking a hard look at his conscience, which is some-thing he wishes his peers would do as well.
http://tinyurl.com/ec22p
I see that Danforth has no problem using his 'faith' to put on the cover of his book!
http://tinyurl.com/ejhen
ONWARD MODERATE CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS. "It was as though, for the first time, someone had said there was a respectable alternative to the Christian Right. Of course, it was not the first time. Jim Wallis, for example, has been a very public voice for Christian liberalism. But on the whole, conservatives have drowned out their moderate brethren, so the column in the Times was widely heralded as unusual if not unique. We have not been effective in proclaiming our position."
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"Divided Christianity is a scandal, clearly contrary to Christ’s High Priestly Prayer “that they may be one,” and clearly contrary to Paul’s teaching that “we all attain to the unity of the faith.” It belies any effort of Christians to be ministers of reconciliation to a fractured world. In my own tiny Episcopal Church, people who are convinced that they possess God’s truth, especially with regard to the ordination of gays, have broken away and formed their own miniscule denominations."
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"I do not fault religious people for political action. Since Moses confronted the pharaoh, faithful people have heard God's call to political involvement. Nor has political action been unique to conservative Christians. Religious liberals have been politically active in support of gay rights and against nuclear weapons and the death penalty. In America, everyone has the right to try to influence political issues, regardless of his religious motivations.
"The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.
"When government becomes the means of carrying out a religious program, it raises obvious questions under the First Amendment. But even in the absence of constitutional issues, a political party should resist identification with a religious movement. While religions are free to advocate for their own sectarian causes, the work of government and those who engage in it is to hold together as one people a very diverse country. At its best, religion can be a uniting influence, but in practice, nothing is more divisive. For politicians to advance the cause of one religious group is often to oppose the cause of another."
"The historic principles of the Republican Party offer America its best hope for a prosperous and secure future. Our current fixation on a religious agenda has turned us in the wrong direction. It is time for Republicans to rediscover our roots."
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Maybe I was obtuse. People like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell have been involved in Republican politics for a long time. Of course, abortion has been a political issue since 1973. But in my own mind, it didn't have the urgency until the Schiavo case. In the past year or so, what was maybe a general interest of Robertson and others in politics and one particular issue, namely abortion, has been transformed into something much more detailed and much more a full-fledged political agenda.
You have Terri Schiavo, the stem-cell issue, the gay marriage issue, the Ten Commandments in courthouses - all occurring about the same time.
But, I thought, particularly with Schiavo, something different had happened: Namely, basic Republican principles had been tossed overboard at the bidding of Christian conservatives.
http://tinyurl.com/gws92
You have made me blush .... thank you oh so very much for your encouragements, SierraWasp!
Isn't he the one who white-washed the Waco investigation?
Isn't Danforth a reverend of a Gay church - episcopal ?
He is worried about church attendees abandoning his chucrh to more traditional ones that believe in Christian values.
I am not sure why anyone should take this ranting of a RINO seriously or give it the attention it deserves.
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