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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
  More on McCain and the Sociocons

From the AP: McCain Courting Religious Conservatives. More of what you've probably already heard about why the religious right doesn't like the Senator from Arizona. Repeat of the Dobson quote, which keeps coming up and must be doing a good amount of damage:
"I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances," Dobson said last month on KCBI, a Dallas Christian radio station. "I pray that we won't get stuck with him."
And the latest formulation of the list of grievances:
[Conservative fundamentalists] are dubious about his opposition to a federal amendment to ban gay marriage. McCain opposes same-sex marriage, but says it should be regulated by the states.

_They still resent passages in the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, which Christian broadcasters say limit what they can tell voters before elections.

_And they question the sincerity of his overtures. McCain condemned evangelist leaders Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell as "agents of intolerance" during his 2000 run.
Hmm. Maybe the Senator should try flip-flopping more vigorously.

Oh, by the way, the article quotes our conservative-of-the-day Paul Weyrich on the second point:
McCain-Feingold "is a big stumbling block for all of us," Weyrich said.
What Weyrich is upset about, of course, is the limitation on his crowd's ability to run vicious, slandering, third-party attack ads during the final days of a campaign.

This, apparently, is one of the major political priorities of a group of people calling themselves "Christians."

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