John McCain is trying to secure the support of the Christian conservative base of the Republican Party. He hopes no one on the religious right remembers his statements from the 2000 campaign like this one:
MCCAIN (clip, 3/5/00): Gov. Bush swung far to the right and sought out the base support of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Those aren’t the ideas that I think are good for the Republican Party.
Or this one:
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain Monday repeated his assertion that the leadership of the Religious Right may “destroy the Republican Party.”
I don’t think McCain will have an easy path to earning support from the religious right, particularly when candidates like Sam Brownback and Mike Huckabee have consistently supported the positions that Falwell, Robertson, and Dobson have demanded from Republican elected officials.
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[...] We learn from Right’s Field today that John McCain, this time in Texas, is once again selling his soul (quite literally) to the very same Dominionists he once thought were the “agents of intolerance.” [...]
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