Christian Right Still Neoconned

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http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/9/24/131326/285

Christian Right Still Neoconned
Neoconservatives selling Iraq War to 'values voters'

By Bill Berkowitz. Talk2Action, September 24, 2007


In the late 1960s and early '70s, then U.S. President Richard Nixon appealed to the country's "Silent Majority" to oppose growing anti-Vietnam War sentiment in the United States.

A decade later, President Ronald Reagan had the Rev. Jerry Falwell's "Moral Majority" working by his side in support of Reagan's low-intensity warfare in Central America, and contra movements in Africa.

During the run-up to, and period following the 1994 Republican revolution that gave that conservative party control of Congress for the first time in decades, the high-profile Georgia legislator Newt Gingrich's band had the Rev. Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed's Christian Coalition stirring the conservative grassroots into action against the Bill Clinton administration.

Now, in the waning days of the George W. Bush administration, Gary Bauer, a former Reagan administration official and longtime conservative activist, is heading up a new organization aimed at countering liberal groups like MoveOn.org, and supporting President Bush's global "war on terror".

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1. And We All Know What Happened to Nixon

Even those he conned realized they'd been had, and turned against him.