Posted on 03/09/2009 5:24:04 PM PDT by lewisglad
He made headlines and became a hero to the Left by accusing his late father of being mentally ill. Sad.
” take it from me; my parents (evangelical leaders Francis and Edith Schaeffer) and I were about as tight with — and useful to — the Republican Party as anyone. We played a big part creating the Religious Right.
In the mid 1980s I left the Religious Right”
Sheesh. Frank Schaeffer never fails to remind us of his former Republican credentials. He literally does this in each and every column he writes. Its worse than listening to Jesse Jackson play the race card.
Watch, these excerpts is what I’ve collected off of his columns so far:
Why This Fifty-Five Year Old White Lifelong Republican Wants Obama To Win
As a lifelong Republican (who reregistered as an independent out of disgust with the dirty-tricks, hate-filled Rovian Republican Party), as a former right-wing activist
Note: I say this as a former lifelong Republican
As a lifelong Republican conservative one of the reasons I left the Republican Party and reregistered as an independent voter was the fact that American “conservatism” seems more and more made up of pigs who wouldn’t know what gentlemanly behavior consists of if it bit them in their “fleshy parts,”
some like me — a white middle class 55-year-old lifelong Republican, now reregistered as an independent
Back in the days when I was a lifelong Republican
and as a former lifelong Republican, and as a former McCain supporter
I have an insider’s perspective on both the military benefits and evangelical-support-for-Israel issues: I was a lifelong Republican
As the son of a pastor, as a former lifelong Republican, as a white 55-year-old middle class, gun-owning male, as a practicing and believing Christian
As both a military parent of a Marine, a former lifelong Republican
many older folks like me — a white middle class and middle aged male and former life-long Republican
As a former lifelong Republican, as an activist key in the formation of the Religious Right, as a white middle-aged middle-class man who is an avid supporter of Senator Obama
This life-long Republican white man is moved, humbled and changed.
(I say this as a lifelong Republican who worked to get McCain elected in the 2000 primaries.)
I was a lifelong Republican (now reregistered as an Independent)
Disclosure: I was raised in the evangelical right wing, left and in 1990, converted to the Greek Orthodox Church and also changed from a lifelong Republican to an Independent voter, who is an Obama supporter
So, I know something about the Republican Party having been a lifelong Republican until recently when, disgusted with the dirty tricks perpetrated by Rove and others, I quit and registered as an independent voter.
As you know I was a lifelong Republican until I reregistered as an Independent in 2006, after I just couldn’t take the Rove brigade’s dirty tricks, lies and slime any longer
In 2000, as a lifelong Republican
As a lifelong Republican (until I re-registered as an independent voter in 2006),
The Republican Party—and I speak as a former lifelong Republican who, up through the 2000 primary campaign supported John McCain
Author’s Note: I happen to be a white, male, fifty-seven-year-old former lifelong Republican. Obama is the first Democratic Party presidential candidate I ever voted for.
As a former lifelong Republican, son of a co-founder of the Religious Right
Speak for yourself. I'd gladly p1$$ on him if he wasnt on fire.
;-)
I respected your Dad and the courageous things he did for Christ and Christianity.
I used to respect you.
Now, you have shown yourself to be grossly ignorant, clueless and a rank traitor keeping philosophical company with abject traitors literally hell-bent on our destruction.
Sadly, I now have to realize that your father failed, too. He failed to teach you sufficiently about the globalist traitors setting up the Biblically predicted world government from hell.
You will eventually find out that you are now supporting such evil. I hope you find out in time to seek God’s rescue from the fires of hell.
Please don’t call me. I doubt I’ll call you.
Confess and repent while you still can.
Wow. One nasty case of Bush Derangement Syndrome. May be fatal.
I don't know if I can agree with this--I've repeatedly heard his name mentioned as one of the leading early figures in the movement.
And to this pile, I also add Teresa Heinz-Kerry who took the Heinz fortune from her deceased Republican husband and went to the dark side, and if I am not mistaken, Huffington’s ex-husband was a Republican (although may have been a RINO, amongst other things). And was it David Brock who wrote those expose’s on Clinton for American Spectator, then “crossed the aisle” and now writes how he was used and abused by the Republicans.
Off with their heads (oops, I’m sorry, for a minute there I thought I was in Iran)
Aparently this guy can’t count very well, at least after he exceeds his fingers and toes. They really don’t need any Republicans.
I respectfully disagree. He was very much a fringe personality, who spent most of his time in Switzerland. His only credibility was when Everett Koop was up for surgeon general, Schaeffer’s name came up in the context of their movies. Robertson, Falwell and a few others had much more impact in the US.
Ya know...the Dem/Republican thingy they got going up in DC ...is really just a scam put on for the taxpayers. Its really all about Washington/America. Truth be told..there’s not a RINO in DC who basically is just looking forward to the day...maybe4, maybe 8 years form no, when they can get their grubby paws on all that we have let Obama take from us...
I think I’d piss on him, and then set him on fire. Then again, that’s just me.
I think he was biggest in Reformed circles, and while they aren’t often directly associated with the stereotypical “Religious Right” he pushed conservative Reformed Christians to become more political.
“Check out the sermon I just delivered about the Republican Party on CNN “
And there, Frank, is the problem. You are worshipping in the wrong house.
Naw...just put him out! ...with a big hammer. :-)
I think this carefully orchestrated campaign against Limbaugh points out why so many GOP Senators act so wishy washy - they know exactly what kind of MSM machine attacks will be unleashed upon them if the refuse to go along with The Agenda. They figure they can get more done by “going along to get along” so they can stay in office and try to work behind the scenes. But the leadership vacuum that tactic creates has already cost the GOP a generation of young voters.
Screw the GOP. I have become a delegate in Virginia and they will be getting an ear full at the convention. Only Conservatives need apply.
How do you know what he thought of himself? Did you know him personally?
To paraphrase, how many economists does the Pope have?
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