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[jrittenhouse]

• akhmed's White House April Fools jokes.
• Jerry Falwell is no longer an agent of intolerance, says Senator McCain.  Monkeys fly out of his butt at 11.  With Dubya-4-Evah buttons on 'em.
• The Dallas Morning News is reporting that hard-right fundies are losing faith in Dubya; he's not hard-right fundie enough.  Actions, not words. 
• Shades of SURVIVORS; the UK

Comments

[marklafon]

Of course McCain is making peace with Falwell. He is firmly hitching his wagon to the existing Republican machine and hoping it will get him to the White House. He tried the maverick path and got squashed. I do not know if he actually held the values he used to endorse but if he did he has thrown them over the side. He never had my vote and he sure is not going to get it now.

As to the fundies, well, delivery on the promises made to get elected will drive them away from voting Republician faster than non-delivery. As long as God in schools, abortion, etc. remain on the table they can serve as points to motivate the base with. Remove them, by actually changing laws, and the base goes away with the issues.

[jrittenhouse]

Motivating the base has a great ability to get you help, especially in regard to $$$$$. When they found vaccines for polio, the March of Dimes had to find a new cause or die...

[rmjwell]

And no organizational bureaucracy will go willingly to its grave.

[jrittenhouse]

Well, no. It's their business.

[shelleybear]

You ever read Sturgeon's "The Comedian's Children"

[jrittenhouse]

No, I haven't.

[shelleybear]

It's probably one of the best things he ever wrote, however, it is easily as sick as "The Professor's Teddy Bear".
It addresses the issue of how far an organization will go to sustain itself.

[jrittenhouse]

I think your assessment on McCain is pretty spot on.

[rmjwell]

The fundies may not be thrilled by promises not kept according to the Dallas Morning News article.

Also, I see the fundies as essentially bullies. Give them what they ask for now, and they'll only want more later.

[jrittenhouse]

As is practically any hardshell political pressure group; they're absolutists, with no real *give*.

[radparker]

And now McCain has decided that the only way he can get a shot at the Whitehouse is to bow to their pressure, play nice and promote (or at least support) their agenda. Barf.

[rmjwell]

Russ Feingold, a lonely nation turns its eyes to you.

[jrittenhouse]

Basically.