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Sarah Palin: Game Changer Or Sacrificial Lamb?

John Shay | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Meg Whitman, John McCain, Christian Right, Campaign, Carly Fiorina, Sarah Palin, Election, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
John Shay

Interestingly, Sarah Palin appears to be the perfect person to carry out a dead-old-man-walking strategy.

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Bush Calls Palin "An Inspired Pick"

Time | Mark Halperin | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Christian Right, George Bush Palin, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Politics News

The President tells Fox News in an interview to air Tuesday morning that the Alaska Governor is "a very dynamic, capable, smart woman" and has the exe...

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The True Values of Values Voters

Robyn Blumner | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bristol Palin, Christian Right, Sarah Palin, Values Voters, Teen Pregnancy, Abortion, Levi Johnston, Unions, Politics News
Robyn Blumner

The life prospects of a teenage couple with a child and only high school degrees have collapsed in this modern economy.

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McCain Wimps Out, Country Shrugs

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Latino Issues, Alaska, Democratic Convention, Christian Right, Economy, Cindy McCain, Mitt Romney, GOP Convention, Hispanic Issues, Media, Black Issues, Democratic Party, 2008 Election, Clarence Thomas, Recession, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Religion, Iran, Unemployment, Martin Luther King, Hillary Clinton, National Enquirer, Republican Party, Wassila, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Far from the eccentric rebel he likes to portray, McCain is a sad pawn in the religious right's attempt to maintain power in the GOP and over the country.

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Palin: The Most Extremist Candidate Since Goldwater

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Sarah Palin Vp, James Dobson Palin, John McCain 2008, Palin Christian Right, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Christian Coalition, Sarah Palin Vice President, Christian Right, Focus on the Family, James Dobson John Mccain, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

Palin's nomination marks a decision by McCain to try to turn the election from one about the economy to a replay of past elections about cultural issues and about which candidate represents real Americans.

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What is Dominionism? Palin, The Christian Right And Theocracy

Chip Berlet | Posted 10.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Christian Right, John McCain, Evangelical Christians, Sarah Palin, Dominionism, Home News
Chip Berlet

Sarah Palin is a "Dominionist" with an apocalyptic End Times theological viewpoint that sees the war in Iraq as part of God's plan. That's different than practicing a form of "Dominion Theology" or "Christian Reconstructionism."

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The Palin Paradox: Does Her Candidacy Mark the Death of the Christian Right?

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Christian Right, Christianity, Sarah Palin, Wassila, Politics News
Paul Abrams

By being forced to embrace Palin, the Christian right is acknowledging that "legitimate" families have morphed into a variety of shapes and forms that all need to be supported and accommodated.

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Who is the Handler?

Nina Burleigh | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Christian Right, Sarah Palin Reaction, Church and State, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Nina Burleigh

Sarah Palin's entry into politics and subsequent rise has all the hallmarks of having been engineered, coached and groomed by bigger outside forces with a bigger plan.

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So Sarah Palin Outranks Me on the Morality Scale?

Stephanie Losee | Posted 10.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Bristol Palin Pregnancy, John McCain, Christian Right, Abortion Rights, Sarah Palin Reaction, Sarah Palin, Living News
Stephanie Losee

The New York Times reported yesterday that Christian conservatives were gratified by John McCain's choice to run with a pro-lifer who married her boyf...

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What If Bristol Palin Were Black?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Conservatives, Sarah Palin, Hypocrisy, James Dobson, Child Out of Wedlock, Discrimination, Christian-Right, Teenage Pregnancy, Bristol Palin, Double-Standard, Race Relations, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

Do you think the Republicans would lay off of Obama if his 17 year-old daughter had gotten pregnant out of wedlock? You know the answer to that question. Everyone does.

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Con Games: Hi Jesus, It's Your Pal Sarah

Michael Conniff | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Religion and Politics, Patriotism, Christian Right, Spirituality, Sarah Palin John Mccain, Satire, Political Satire, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin and Christianity, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Michael Conniff

You see, Jesus, I never mentioned You during my speech until the last line, not once during the whole speech in Dayton while I thanked my husband, my children, my parents, John McCain...

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The Secretive Right-Wing Cabal That Met In Minneapolis To Vet Palin

Max Blumenthal | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Conspiracy, Republican National Convention, James Dobson, Christian Right, Conservatives, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Max Blumenthal

The members of the Council for National Policy are the hidden hand behind McCain's Palin pick. CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich.

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Monster: Who Really Killed the Knoxville Unitarians?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Univatian Universalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Christian Right, Knoxville Church Killings, Intolerance, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Religion, Sean Hannity, Dick Morris, Hagee, Pat Robertson, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Who really killed those Unitarians? The economic system that batters people like Jim Adkinson until they snap, then tells them their real enemies are gays and liberals and secular humanists?

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Where Is Obama's Truth on Late Term Abortion?

Amie Newman | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Abortion, Barack Obama 2008, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Federal Abortion Ban, Roe v. Wade, Reproductive Health, Pro-Choice, Contraception, Christian Right, Barack Obama, Partial Birth Abortion, Politics News
Amie Newman

The "partial birth abortion" debate is an utterly pointless distraction, and Obama has completely played into the hands of the anti-choice organizations who want only to entrap him in political sport.

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Lieberman Ally Claims "Jewish Banking Plot" Sermon Copyright Protected -- Senator To Speak at July Hagee Event

Bruce Wilson | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Joe Lieberman John Hagee, Antichrist, John Hagee, Jewish, Christianity, Christian Right, Adolf Hitler, Cufi, Politics News
Bruce Wilson

John Hagee Ministries has claimed copyright protection for a sermon which closely resembled versions of the most notoriously vicious anti-Jewish conspiracy theory ever minted.

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Jesus Thieves Convene for McCain

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Matthew Staver, Religion, John McCain, Grand Theft Jesus, Phyllis Schlafly, Mike Huckabee and Religion, David Barton, Jesus Thieves, James Dobson, Rick Scarborough, Christian Right, Christianitylite, Phil Burress, Tim LaHaye, Obama and Religion, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Many of the nation's leading Jesus Thieves convened in Denver last Tuesday to work towards uniting behind the candidacy McCain, a man who used to have the courage to denounce such charlatans.

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Will Evangelicals Ditch McCain?

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain 2008, John McCain, Evangelical Voters, Evangelical Christians, Christian Right, Evangelicals and Mccain, Election 2008, Politics News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — If Christian conservatives stay on the sidelines during the fall campaign, presidential hopeful John McCain probably stays in t...

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Huckabee Fails to Keep Southern Evangelical Base United

Chip Berlet | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Super Tuesday, 2008 Primaries, John McCain, Apocalypse, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Christian Right, Election 2008, Breaking Off the Bus News, Satan, Home News
Chip Berlet

Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee started out his evening speech on Super Tuesday with two Biblical references, when in fact, his Biblic...

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Reading the Bible Belt Before Coming of Super Tuesday

Chip Berlet | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Super Tuesday, Christian Right, Apocalypse, Election 2008, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Satan, Home News
Chip Berlet

Pundits over the next few days are likely to talk about the splits in the Christian Right, or even predict its demise. Don't bite on that baloney. Voters of faith are going to have considerable influence this election cycle.

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Huckabee Drops Christian Right Buzzwords In NH

New York Times | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mike Huckabee, Christian Right, Christian Conservatives, Politics News

Fresh from his victory in the Iowa caucuses, Mike Huckabee has to be considered a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. But th...

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Huck = Harriet Miers?

The Atlantic | Marc Ambinder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Talk Radio, Republican Primary, Mike Huckabee and Religion, Rush Limbaugh, Conservatives, Mike Huckabee, Evangelical Christians, Christian Conservatives, Iowa Caucuses, Christian Right, Mike Huckabee Leading Polls, Mike Huckabee Iowa, 2008 Election, Politics News

A conservative counter-revolution is breaking out in the talk radio universe and on prominent conservative blogs. The same forces that joined to forc...

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Christian Right Leaders To Meet Again About Defecting From GOP In '08

Salon | Michael Scherer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Christians Running Third Party, Evangelicals, Christian Right, Rudy Giuliani, Politics News

Key conservative and religious leaders will continue discussing a mass defection from the Republican Party in a private meeting at a Washington hotel ...

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