Christian Groups to Run Third Party Candidate?

Photo from source (with help from me), NYTimes.com

This story sorta tickles my funnybone. Clearly, the fundamentalist Christian groups, courted so openly by the Bushies, are having a hard time warming up to the slate of Republican candidates for President. There are a few on the list with "Crazy Christian" cred (calm down regular Christians, you know the crazy ones I speak of), but they haven't got a realistic chance of winning. No, they're left with Romney (a Mormon), Thompson (self-declared irreligious), and Rudy (flip-flops on abortion, wears a dress on occasion). Hee hee hee. . .

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Guliani Inspires Threat of a Third-Party Run

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 — Alarmed at the possibility that the Republican Party might pick Rudolph W. Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate.

The threat emerged from a group that broke away for separate discussions at a meeting Saturday in Salt Lake City of the Council for National Policy, a secretive conservative networking group. Participants said the smaller group included James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family, who is perhaps its most influential member; Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council; Richard A. Viguerie, the direct-mail pioneer; and dozens of other politically oriented conservative Christians. . .

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