Tuesday, August 17, 2004
I want my God-TV
Jerry Falwell, Franklin Graham, Pat Robertson and other prominent evangelicalshave apparently not recieved their invites to the GOP Convention.
Pat Robertson says he's not going this year anyway:
"In the last convention, the thought was to keep all the conservatives out of sight," said Robertson, who has attended every Republican convention since 1988, but said he won't go this year. "The general thrust will be to entice the so-called independent moderates and I am not sure that there would be much reason for a conservative to be there."
Ralph Reed, official spokesmodel for the Republican wing of the Republican Party (and former Christian Coalition executive director) said that the GOP has no deliberate strategy to spurn evangelical leaders.
Interestingly, the GOP apparently want to hide their evangelical/conservative light under a bushel, to use the Christian vernacular. No evangelical leaders have speaking slots at the Convention, that I can find. Yet Bush is heavily courting the evangelical vote. Further, the major prime time slots are heavy laden with moderates including prochoice leaders of the GOP, Schwartzenegger and Giuliani. A dearth of DeLays and Santorums cloud the Convention.
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Pat Robertson says he's not going this year anyway:
"In the last convention, the thought was to keep all the conservatives out of sight," said Robertson, who has attended every Republican convention since 1988, but said he won't go this year. "The general thrust will be to entice the so-called independent moderates and I am not sure that there would be much reason for a conservative to be there."
Ralph Reed, official spokesmodel for the Republican wing of the Republican Party (and former Christian Coalition executive director) said that the GOP has no deliberate strategy to spurn evangelical leaders.
Interestingly, the GOP apparently want to hide their evangelical/conservative light under a bushel, to use the Christian vernacular. No evangelical leaders have speaking slots at the Convention, that I can find. Yet Bush is heavily courting the evangelical vote. Further, the major prime time slots are heavy laden with moderates including prochoice leaders of the GOP, Schwartzenegger and Giuliani. A dearth of DeLays and Santorums cloud the Convention.
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