A group of influential Christian conservatives and their allies emerged from a private meeting at a Florida resort this month dissatisfied with the Republican presidential field and uncertain where to turn.
The event was a meeting of the Council for National Policy, a secretive club whose few hundred members include James Dobson of Focus on the Family, the Rev. Jerry Falwell of Liberty University and Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. Although little known outside the conservative movement, the council has become a pivotal stop for Republican presidential primary hopefuls, including George W. Bush in 1999, when he was governor or Texas.
I always love how these euphemistically-titled clubs of empowered assholes pronounce themselves to be operating in the national interest -- and then meet and plan secretly. There's not even the pretense of actual debate, just a mission of pushing an agenda, whether we like it or not. I figure if God had wanted me to let a dickhead like James Dobson push me around, he'd have made me one of the unquestioning plankton clogging his stadium-churches. I hear there's a lot of tail to be had if a guy can pull off a seersucker suit, so there's that.
"Right now there is still a vacuum among conservative Republicans," said Gary Bauer, a Christian conservative who was a Republican primary candidate in 2000. Conservatives, he said, "want a more provable conservative who also is demonstrating that they can put together the resources necessary to prevail." He declined to comment on the Amelia Island meeting.
A spokesman for Brownback said he would not comment on the senator's presentation to the council, citing its rules about strict confidentiality. Several others who attended his speech said he received heavy applause for his emphasis on restricting abortion and amending the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
But others objected to his support for a temporary worker program for immigrants, and several faulted Brownback for touching only briefly on the threat of Islamic terrorists, an increasingly central focus of the council and many social conservative groups since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Norquist, a member of the Council for National Policy, said he remained open to any of the three candidates who spoke to the group or, for that matter, to Romney. He argued that with the right promises, any of the four could redeem themselves in the eyes of the conservative movement despite their past records, just as some high school students take abstinence pledges after having had sex.
"It's called secondary virginity," he said. "It is a big movement in high school and also available for politicians."
I agree with Grover on the benefits of secondary virginity. It gives them all another chance to go fuck themselves.
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I hear there's a lot of tail to be had if a guy can pull off a seersucker suit, so there's that.
A friend of mine swears that Liberty University girls are worth waiting for, once they turn against all the indoctrination and set out to make up for lost time. I have set foot on campus there*, and I have to agree. Too bad I wasn't in the area long enough to test his theory out.
*Not as a student, of course. It's a long story, but the upshot of it is that therapy has helped a lot and the nightmares are far less frequent. It's like visiting Jonestown without getting shot.
It's a truism among touring rock musicians that the best groupies are found in Salt Lake City. I never got a chance to find that one out for myself, but back in the day I did encounter first-hand a religious holdout or two, making up for lost time, as you put it. Lots of enthusiasm and a willingness to learn; can't ask for much more than that.
There's something to be said (and it's not good) for a bunch of guys who meet in secret and think that the 12 of them, or however many, are going to Rule the World! (cue nefarious and maniacal laughter)
One would think that if one's ideas were, indeed, so powerful and were going to have such an incredibly positive impact on the nation - nay, the World! - that one would be all over TV and radio, shouting the message of hope and a New Frontier. Instead, we find these power-hungry crooks and liars trying to slip a ruffie into the national Scotch & (Holy) Water so they can ass fuck us and swipe our credit cards.
Mocking them isn't enough, marginalizing them isn't enough - these people need to be shunned with such ferocity, both financially and reputation-ally, that they give up on America and move on to the next dumbest government they can find.
They're a fucking cancer on the nation, and I wouldn't shed a tear if they all died in an odd series of freak lawnmower accidents.
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