Las Vegas SUN: Top Evangelicals Still Await GOP Invite
The democrats made the front page when the "liberal media" accused them of "managing the message." The Repugnicans are doing the same FUCKING thing, and CNN's got this link burried, burried, burried.
Las Vegas SUN: Top Evangelicals Still Await GOP Invite: "Analysts said the move likely reflects a GOP desire to sideline its more polarizing supporters during a tight presidential race, "
...
The Rev. Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition and a one-time Republican presidential candidate, said, "I've had no request from anybody to be there." Unlike Falwell, Robertson believes the GOP is deliberately keeping him and other evangelicals away.
"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."
...
"People who are not part of the religious right might be alienated if they put too many conservatives as the public face of the party," said Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University in Atlanta.
...
Roberta Combs, president of the Christian Coalition, said she was not concerned about which evangelicals were invited because so many will be among the delegates and party leaders. This year, her organization will have a quieter presence at this convention. The group has dropped plans for a rally because of security concerns, she said.
"We'll have a huge presence there," she said. "We have the president."
Las Vegas SUN: Top Evangelicals Still Await GOP Invite: "Analysts said the move likely reflects a GOP desire to sideline its more polarizing supporters during a tight presidential race, "
...
The Rev. Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition and a one-time Republican presidential candidate, said, "I've had no request from anybody to be there." Unlike Falwell, Robertson believes the GOP is deliberately keeping him and other evangelicals away.
"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."
...
"People who are not part of the religious right might be alienated if they put too many conservatives as the public face of the party," said Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University in Atlanta.
...
Roberta Combs, president of the Christian Coalition, said she was not concerned about which evangelicals were invited because so many will be among the delegates and party leaders. This year, her organization will have a quieter presence at this convention. The group has dropped plans for a rally because of security concerns, she said.
"We'll have a huge presence there," she said. "We have the president."
<< Home