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TEA PARTY THEOCRACY AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE RELIGIOS RIGHT

clipped from: www.religiousrightwatch.com

Tea Party theocracy and other observations about the religious right

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An interview by Bill Harnsberger, a Daily Kos front page diarist, with Bruce Wilson of Talk To Action, a "platform for reporting on...the religious right." Some highlights:

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On Christian Zionism:

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[T]here's a Christian Zionist/Likud political symbiosis going back to the late 1970's, and John Hagee and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are close allies.

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Hagee also demonizes Jews to a remarkably vicious degree. [Link.]

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On Sarah Palin:

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Palin's long-time personal prayer leader, Mary Glazier, tells evangelical leadersthat Sarah Palin joined her prayer group in '89,

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Glazier then advocatescleansing "the land" of unbelievers

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On the religious right's quickly changing nature:

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Lou Engle...has become the de-facto prayer leader for the Republican Party. It's targeting entire states for political takeover (Hawaii, for example

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On the religious right's influence in the US military:

Spend some time browsing the extensive media archives from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation

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On the Tea Party movement and the religious right:

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Ron Paul was staging 'Tea Party' events across America back in 2007,

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He's good friends with Constitution Party Founder Howard Phillips, a leading Christian Reconstructionist

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On the growing influence of the religious right within the Republican Party:

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state Republican parties - link -].

BPAA News Realease

BPAA News Realease

"Palin also noted that, during his high school years, her father Chuck Heath Sr. worked as a pin boy and that she herself has fond childhood memories of watching him play in this Thursday night bowling league". Palin was three months old when her family left Idaho.

DRILL BABY COMPILATION

Gulf Oil Spill: Palin Camp Says You Can't Trust Foreign Oil Companies [UPDATE]

See Huffpost here,

Jason Linkins

jason@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting

As much as I try to hew to what I call Weigel's First Constant -- which asserts that a diminished value should be placed on the social network statements that emerge from somewhere in the camp of sometime-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin -- this is just too bizarre not to mention.

See, as everyone knows, Palin is pretty much defined as the ultimate in "Drill, Baby, Drill". And she has so many thoughts on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and What It Means. Mostly, her thoughts evolves slowly, as she learns from other people what she is supposed to think about any given issue. But today, Sarah Inc. took to its Twitter account to offer some lessons about What The Gulf Oil Spill Teaches Us. Her bottom line: don't trust the foreign oils!

Gulf: learn from Alaska's lesson w/foreign oil co's: don't naively
trust- VERIFY. Livelihood affected by spill?Don't sign away
remedy rightsless than a minute ago via OpenBeakSarah Palin

Yes, it's obviously the fault of those devious Brits! Commence the racial profiling, right?

Of course, while it's based in Britain, BP is a massive, publicly-traded, multinational energy conglomerate, commonly referred to as a "supermajor". It's just one of three companies that are heavily involved with the Deepwater Horizon facility. The other two are Halliburton, an American company, and TransOcean. Spawned from a U.S. company called Sonat, TransOcean became what it is today after mergers with and acquisitions of various foreign entities. It's now headquartered in Switzerland.

Fun fact! I'm not sure that Palin knows this, but another "supermajor" is ExxonMobil, a United States company that I seem to recall has a rather complicated history with the state of Alaska for some reason.

UPDATE: Many thanks to an emailer named Ben, who reminds me that for eighteen long years, that dodgy, not-to-be-trusted foreign oil company known as British Petroleum employed one Todd Palin.

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Looks like Mary Matalin is still working on the soundbite. Looks like Frank Luntz is still working on the focus group. Looks like the brand is falling apart, too many 'drill, baby,drill' clips out there. Looks like have to go to Petraeus. But he has a brain. Dang. Looks like neocon hell

SARAH PALIN AND NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST

FORREST, WALLACE AND PALIN

Sarah Palin as Nathan Bedford Forrest. This is an Jayne Lyn Stahl piece is an interesting article

This article matches up with one of my pet theories of history which goes like this:

People wonder why Robert E Lee basically countered the command of his own government and signed the peace treaty with Grant when the south could have gone underground and fought and won a guerrilla insurrection.



The fact is this is exactly what the South did. There is a quote I have failed to bookmark where Lee was asked to lead this insurrection and he declined, informing them that he wasn't the man for the job and he recommended they ask Nathan Bedford Forrest

The Ku Klux Klan was that insurrection and they succeeded in running the "north" out and took back their government. This scarcely known document is a major document in US history and is known as the Compromise of 1877. Some of how this came to be is here, here and here. It is the real peace treaty between the South and the North.



There was a racist component of the KKK and especially the 20Th Century KKK. but while the racism was there, it wasn't the main story.

The South shall Rise again, and again, and again, and again until the secession is recognized and codified.

Being the grandson of Joseph Eugene Bee Stonewall Jackson Robert E Lee Roberts, I can tell you for sure, these Southerners will never forget. The oil has done been pumped out of Texas, hell, give it to em and let em fight the Mexicans for it. This time they'll lose for sure, and won't that be funny.

PALIN AND BILL KRISTOL

Sarah Palin teeters between Tea Bagger and neocon patsy, some neoconservative rifts developing over Palin.

Scheunemann, that delivers daily briefings to Palin

Bill Kristol, went public with a criticism of her:
“I’m disappointed by her endorsement of [Rand] Paul,” said William Kristol
one of the conservatives credited with “discovering” Ms. Palin in 2007

It’s out of character for Kristol. Why this break? The appeal of Palin is their malleability on foreign policy

“going rogue,” endorsement of Rand Paul. who isolationist par-excellence of the libertarian right who has his own problems with the neocons

Paul says he would not have supported the war on Iraq

The Tea Baggers (cum quasi-isolationists) on one side and the neoconservatives on the other

PALIN MISUNDERSTOOD WHAT MARY MATELIN TOLD HER

In a Fox News interview with Chris Wallace on Sunday, Sarah Palin confused message of Daniel Pipes with Pat Buchanan. Pipes declared bombing Iran could salvage Obama failed presidency

On the other hand, “Will Obama Play the War Card?”, Buchanan noted recent Iran sanctions approved in the House targetted the President. The Senate is trying to force Obama’s hand. In his conclusion, Buchanan makes a brief reference to Pipes’ piece, with whose recommendations he clearly disagrees:

Palin says,

“I got this from reading one of Buchanan’s columns the other day: Say he played the war card. Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decided to come out and do whatever he can to support Israel, which I would like him to do. That changes the dynamics in what we can assume is going to happen between now and three years.”

This is a direct paraphrase of Pipes. Buchanan is anti-interventionist,
suggesting that the US should not have even entered World War II

in 2008, Buchanan wrote, “Israel and its Fifth Column in this city seek to stampede us into war with Iran

PALIN BRAIN TRUST

Randy Scheunemann

Known for his early and vocal support for the Iraq War -- including as the founder of Committee for the Liberation of Iraq and a longtime ally of Ahmed Chalabi
traveled to Hong Kong
took a hard line against "a China

Kim Daniels

The firm is "dedicated to the defense and promotion of the religious freedom of Christians, time-honored family values, and the sanctity of human life

Fred Malek

successful private equity investor
Alfalfa Club dinner/roast in January 2009
Washington elite
a total hit
many of Washington's leading lights

Robert Barnett

"Washington power broker"

Mary Matalin

resignation as Alaska
Matalin hailed the move as "brilliant."
Going Rogue
attract conservatives yearning for an unapologetic articulation of first principles."

HILLBILLY TELEPROMPTER

UPDATE: (Huffpost Exclusive)

Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand. The words "Energy", "Tax" and "Lift American Spirits" are clearly visible. There's also what appears to read as "Budget cuts" with the word Budget crossed out.

ALEXANDER COCKBURN QUOTE

The corporations run the show and the only vivid opposition comes from Christian populists, who’ve bought several million copies of Sara Palin’s memoir.

Hazlitt got gloomily drunk for a fortnight after the battle of Waterloo, accurately anticipating that decades of reaction lay ahead, now that Boney had been definitely put away, with the Holy Alliance in the saddle and the French contagion safely bottled up. Smart fellow, that Hazlitt. He should have stayed drunk for a month.

The teens? Raise your glass along with Mr William Hazlitt.

GOOD BYE SARAH PALIN, WE HARDLY KNEW YE

CBC CANADA SPEAKS TRUTHFULLY ABOUT PALIN

CBC News apologized Sunday for publishing a column about Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, conceding that it was "viciously personal."




The column was attacked by the National Post as well as Fox News.


(The Canadian neocon rag)

The internet has been scrubbed of the article, but you can find a copy of google's cache here.

Here are some of the relevant quotes

"She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn't already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the demographic that sullies America's name inside and outside its borders yet has such a curious appeal for the right.

No, she isn't even female really. She's a type, and she comes in male form too...an Alaska hillbilly. It's safer than "white trash" ... White trash — not trailer trash, that's something different — is rural, loud, proudly unlettered (like Bush himself), suspicious of the urban, frankly disbelieving of the foreign, and a fan of the American cliché of authenticity. The
semiotics are pure Palin: a sturdy body, clothes that are clinging yet boxy and a voice that could peel the plastic seal off your new microwave.


Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade's woman, the overtreated
hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression. Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the
teen mum, the "pramface." Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi "I'm a fuckin' redneck" Johnson prodding his daughter?

The conventioneers are nothing like the rich men who run the party, and that's the mystery of the hick vote. They'd be much better served by the Democrats. I know Thomas Frank answered this in What's the Matter with Kansas?; I know that red states vote Republican on social issues to give themselves the only self-esteem available to their broken, economically abused existence.

But surely they know Barack Obama is not planning to finish off the ordinary hillbilly when he adjusts tax rates. He's going to raise taxes on the top 2% of Americans and that doesn't include anyone at the convention beyond the Bushes and McCains and random party management. "

e.e. palin

Gah!

Nothing
(specific right now.)

Sitting here in these chairs
that
I’m
(going to be) proposing

BUT

in working with these governors who

(again on the front lines) are forced to

AND

it’s our privileged obligation
to find solutions
to the challenges facing our own states

(every day)

being held accountable,

NOT being just one of many
just casting votes
(or voting present every once
in a while, we don’t
get away with that.)

we have to
balance
budgets (we’re dealing with multibillion dollar budgets)

and tens of thousands of employees
in our organizations.

PALIENATION

from Andrew Sullivan

The Palin nightmare also happened because a tiny faction of political professionals has far too much sway in the GOP and conservative circles. This was Bill Kristol's achievement.

It was a final product of the now-exhausted strategy of fomenting fundamentalist resentment to elect politicians dedicated to the defense of Israel and the extension of American military hegemony in every corner of the globe. Palin was the reductio ad absurdum of this mindset: a mannequin candidate, easily controlled ideologically, deployed to fool and corral the resentful and the frightened, removed from serious scrutiny and sold on propaganda networks like a food product.

This deluded and delusional woman still doesn't understand what happened to her; still has no self-awareness; and has never been forced to accept her obvious limitations. She cannot keep even the most trivial story straight; she repeats untruths with a ferocity and calm that is reserved only to the clinically unhinged; she has the educational level of a high school drop-out; and regards ignorance as some kind of achievement. It is excruciating to watch her

THIS IS WHAT I ALWAYS PRAY, I'M LIKE, OK, GOD,

“You know, I have -- faith is a very big part of my life. And putting my life in my creator's hands -- this is what I always do. I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is. Even if it's cracked up a little bit, maybe I'll plow right on through that and maybe prematurely plow through it, but don't let me miss an open door. And if there is an open door in '12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I'll plow through that door.”

UNPACKING PALIN, PICKING ON PALIN, PALINALIA

from Mark Lilla, THE PERILS OF POPULIST CHIC



John McCain's choice was ... the result of a long campaign by influential conservative intellectuals to find a young, populist leader to whom they might hitch their wagons in the future.

And not just any intellectuals. It was the editors of National Review and the Weekly Standard, magazines that present themselves as heirs to the sophisticated conservatism of William F. Buckley and the bookish seriousness of the New York neoconservatives. After the campaign for Sarah Palin, those intellectual traditions may now be pronounced officially dead.

[during the last] 25 years there grew up a new generation of conservative writers who saw themselves as counter-intellectuals. [t]heir function within the conservative movement is no longer to educate and ennoble a populist political tendency, it is to defend that tendency against the supposedly monolithic and uniformly hostile educated classes. They mock the advice of Nobel Prize-winning economists and praise the financial acumen of plumbers and builders. They ridicule ambassadors and diplomats while promoting jingoistic journalists who have never lived abroad and speak no foreign languages. And with the rise of shock radio and television, they have found a large, popular audience that eagerly absorbs their contempt for intellectual elites. They hoped to shape that audience, but the truth is that their audience has now shaped them.

There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself.

IT WAS A PETER WATKINS FILM

And yet, I find this election campaign to have been an impressive testament to post-modernism's limits. The post-modern candidate was Palin:

• a hologram of cultural resentments,

• crafted to win votes through image, propaganda and untruth.

And yet we saw right through it. Fact mattered in the end, didn't it? And truthiness finally lost.- Andrew Sullivan


You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time

-Abraham Lincoln

BIBLE SPICE

"You know if there is a role in national politics, it won't be so much partisan,"
"My efforts have always been here in the state of Alaska to get everybody to unite and work together, It certainly would a uniter type of roll"

She added that she's only interested in uniting the "real America" or "pro-America type areas" that love Jesus.

Regarding regrets, "...more hours in the day so we could've gotten around to more areas of our country.


The state of journalism today, the world, for the blogosphere, the 2-3-hour news cycles, where just too much is reported based on gossip and innuendo and things taken out of context, I'd like to help in that effort also because I have great respect for the world for journalism."

A NEW MIDDLE

[t]here is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt—until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties." - Gore Vidal

In recent years the GOP has become a party in which a right wing foreign policy elite has manipulated the voting power of a "base" increasingly made up of small town, rural, white, faith driven activists oriented towards "issues of conscience" such as; abortion, gay marriage, gun control, etc.

The neocon and nativist/rural factions of the Republican Party may be too deeply entrenched in power to be removed from control.

The more tantalising question is whether the rise of the Obamacons signals a lasting political realignment. In 1980 the rise of the neocons—liberal intellectuals
who abandoned a spineless Democratic Party—was reinforced by the birth of working class “Reagan Democrats”.

LIBERTARIAN WING

Andrew Sullivan
David Friedman
Scott Flanders
Andrew Bacevich

The biggest brigade in the Obamacon army consists of libertarians, furious with Mr Bush’s big-government conservatism, worried about his commitment to an open-ended “war on terror”, and disgusted by his cavalier way with civil rights.

And it's not just blogger Andrew Sullivan. Milton and Rose Friedman's son, David, is
signed up with the cause on the grounds that he sees Obama as the better vessel for his father's cause. Friedman is convinced of Obama's sympathy for school vouchers

Scott Flanders, the CEO of Freedom Communications--the company that owns The Orange County Register--told a company meeting that he believes Obama will accomplish the paramount libertarian goals of withdrawing from Iraq and scaling back the Patriot Act.

They believe that he has surrounded himself with pragmatists, some of whom (significantly) come from the University of Chicago.

You can find similar sentiments coursing through the Boston University professor Andrew Bacevich's seminal Obamacon manifesto in The American Conservative. He believes that the war in Iraq has undermined the possibilities for conservative reform at home.

In nearly every quarter of the movement, you can find conservatives irate over the Iraq war--a war they believe transgresses core principles.

NEOCONS

Francis Fukuyama
Kenneth Adelman

But the army has many other brigades, too: repentant neocons such as Francis Fukuyama, Kenneth Adelman, who once described the invasion of Iraq as a “cakewalk”, decided this week to vote for Mr Obama mainly because he regards Sarah Palin as “not close to being acceptable in high office”.

Francis Fukuyama, the neoconservative theorist, recently told an Australian journalist that he would reluctantly vote for Obama to hold the Republican Party
accountable "for a big policy failure" in Iraq. And he seems to view Obama as the best means for preserving American power, since Obama "symbolizes the ability of the
United States to renew itself in a very unexpected way."


NATIONAL REVIEW

Jeffrey Hart
Wick Allison
Larry Hunter

it has even penetrated National Review, the intellectual anchor of the conservative movement. There's Jeffrey Hart, who has been a senior editor at the magazine since
1968 and even wrote a history of the magazine, The Making of the American Conservative Mind; and Wick Allison, who once served as the magazine's publisher.

Professor Emeritus Hart can be described as an Obamacon, in his past, he worked for conservatives as prominent as former President Richard Nixon and William F. Buckley.
As former President Nixon’s speechwriter, Professor Hart wrote Nixon’s famous “Law and Order” speech.


Take Larry Hunter, who helped put together the economics passages in the Contract with America and served as chief economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
He concedes that Obama is saying the wrong things on taxes but dismisses it as electioneering. Of far greater importance, in Hunter's view, is that Obama has the
potential to "scramble the political deck, break up old alliances, and bring odd bedfellows together in a new coalition." And, what's more important, he views the
Republican Party as a "dead, rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of Weekend at Bernie's, handcuffed
to a corpse." Unless the Republican Party is thoroughly purged of its current leadership, Hunter fears that it "will pollute the political environment to toxic
levels and create an epidemic that could damage the country for generations to come."


POLITICIANS/FAMOUS PEOPLE

Colin Powell
Chuck Hagel
Susan Eisenhower
CC Goldwater
Christopher Buckley
Douglas Kmiec
Michael Smerconish
Megan McArdle
Christopher Hitchens
William Weld
Gov. Arne Carlson, MN


Their ranks, though growing, feature few famous people. But looming on the horizon are two big potential Obamacons: Colin Powell and Chuck Hagel. Mr Powell is now a four-star general in America’s most surprising new army: the Obamacons. a Republican senator from Nebraska and one-time bosom buddy of Mr McCain has also flirted heavily with the movement, though he has refrained from issuing an official endorsement.

Reports listing additional Obamacons do not add up to tides of conservative Republicans leaving their party. Former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker
is a Democrat who entered government in the Kennedy administration.

Susan Eisenhower, grand-daughter of the Republican President and great general, who introduced Mr Obama at the Democratic National Convention, has also explained: Why I'm Backing Obama - WP.

CC Goldwater has a piece up on HuffPost. I know that, strategically and politically, nothing trumps the Powell endorsement. But there is a lot in her piece which bears repeating: Being Barry Goldwater's granddaughter and living in Arizona, one would assume that I would be voting for our state's senator, John McCain.

Christopher Buckley, the son of the conservative icon William Buckley, who complains that he has not left the Republican Party: the Republican Party has left him.

legal scholars such as Douglas Kmiec, and conservative talk-show hosts such as Michael Smerconish. And it is picking up unexpected new recruits as the campaign
approaches its denouement. Many disillusioned Republicans hoped that Mr McCain would provide a compass for a party that has lost its way, but now feel that the compass has gone haywire.

Megan McArdle has been voicing support for Obama on her blog, endorsing him on Super Tuesday.

I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe -- neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and
socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) -- yelling "Stop!" I shall have no part of this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship.On a related note, former Massachusetts governor William Weld has just endorsed Obama. Because of his tolerant stances on abortion, gay rights, and medical marijuana, Weld was hyped in the early '90s as a libertarian Republican. As he swelled the state budget and passed new regulations, he started to look more like an old-fashioned liberal Republican instead.

On Thursday, former Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson endorsed Obama at the state capitol. “I think we have in Barack Obama the clear possibility of a truly great president,” he said. “I would contend that it’s the most important election of my lifetime.”

BUSH ADMINISTRATION

Scott McClellan, a former spokesman for President George W. Bush, also endorsed Obama Thursday. USA Today reported that McClellan told CNN in a taping to be
aired this weekend that Obama has “the best chance of changing the way Washington works.”

REAGAN ADMINISTRATION

Charles Fried, a Harvard Law professor and former Solicitor General in the Reagan administration, to the list of Republicans supporting Obama.

In a surprising rebuff of an old friend, former White House chief of Staff Kenneth Duberstein said today he was abandoning his support of John McCain and instead
would back Barack Obama for president.

Duberstein, who worked for President Ronald Reagan, told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that his vote was influenced by another good friend, former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.