RUMBLINGS ON THE RIGHT-- BIG TROUBLE FOR GIULIANI

Yesterday a right-wing news site featured a story about how leaders of the extreme hate and bigotry wing of the GOP is talking about bolting the party if front-runner Rudy Giuliani wins the Republican nomination. Although lobbyist/actor Fred Thompson is starting to gain on him, Giuliani still leads the pack. Among the wingnut leaders who say they will not vote for him if he is their party's nominee are:

* Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council
* James Dobson fuehrer of Focus on the Family
* Louis "Lucky Louie" Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition (who always goes to the highest bidder)
* Gary Bauer, loon-at-large
* Richard Land, chief lobbyist of the Southern Baptist Convention

These 5 kooks are all part of the GOP Machine and between them they claim tens of millions of sheep-like followers. Land didn't leave much wiggle-room in case Giuliani does get the nod. "I'm not going to vote for a pro-choice candidate, period." Earlier Dobson, the Elmer Gantry of Republican politics, said his anti-Giuliani stand is "irrevocable." Two-fifths of GOP voters are "social conservatives" but many of these voters don't even know about Giuliani's stands. These 5 religionist right leaders could help hip them to the fact that he's pro-abortion, pro-gay, used to be pro-immigrant, pro-gun control, always appointed moderate judges when he was mayor and that there's nothing he enjoys more in life than dressing and acting like a woman. He isn't gay though-- just a straight transvestite whose been married so many times no one is sure which marriages were legal and which were not. A family man he's not. In fact, Giuliani basically has one note he's singing: 9/11. He's been capitalizing on the tragedy since the day after it happened and he's counting on toothless rednecks in rural South Carolina to remember fondly how he fought off the Arab armies who invaded New York that day. And they don't care how many cousins he married.


Today's Boston Globe is reporting that post-Neanderthal conservatives are also giving Republican hopefuls a hard time on their road to the nomination. American Freedom Agenda, a right wing group concerned about the abuse of executive power under Bush, "recently asked Mitt Romney to promise not to wiretap Americans without a judge's approval or to imprison US citizens without a trial as 'enemy combatants.' When Romney declined to sign their pledge, the group denounced him as 'unfit to serve as president... Mitt Romney's ignorance of the Constitution's checks and balances and protections against government abuses would have alarmed the Founding Fathers and their conservative philosophy,' said Bruce Fein, one of the group's co-founders and a Reagan administration attorney, in a press release last month attacking Romney for not signing the pledge." So far only Ron Paul has sign their 10 point pledge which begins with this:

"I hereby pledge that if elected President of the United States I will undertake the following to restore the Constitution's checks and balances: to honor fundamental protections against injustice, and to eschew usurpations of legislative or judicial power," the pledge reads. "These are keystones of national security and individual freedom."