Theo-Con Politics: The Blather Goes Marching On

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from HuffPost:




Dan Agin
Theo-Con Politics: The Blather Goes Marching On
Posted October 6, 2007 | 07:30 PM (EST)



James C. Dobson is founder and chairman of the evangelical organization Focus on the Family Action. He's also the author of various books, pamphlets, tracts, and manifestos calling for America to march in lock-step with his views of how people should live, think, work, and die.

Dr. Dobson is apparently enraged that the Republican Party seems to be shuffling away from his views, and so he and his brother theo-cons (theological conservatives) have announced that unless the Republican Party nominates a candidate they like they may form a third party for the 2008 presidential election.

Republicans are shaking in their boots, fearful they may have their very own Ralph Nader to worry about.

No matter how it turns out, theo-cons will not go away. They will either weigh down the Republican Party with their lead-weight fundamentalism, or cut the Republican Party in half and split away.

Dr. Dobson announced his potential strategy in a recent column in the New York Times, and some words in that piece blare out the essential problems of theo-con politics.

Dr. Dobson says: "I firmly believe that the selection of a president should begin with a recommitment to traditional moral values and beliefs. Those include the sanctity of human life, the institution of marriage, and other inviolable pro-family principles."

What we have here is a sample of theo-con vacuity, the hawking of "traditional moral values and beliefs" without admission that many "traditional" moral values and beliefs in this country in the past were stupid, irrational, and ugly enough to embarrass anyone with an ounce of decency in their psyches.

Since America has been wrong before, maybe we need to continue questioning ourselves. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-agin/theocon-politics-the-bl_b_67431.html

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1. The wingnuts are on the way out

They need to accept it and get on with life.