Here we go again: Conservatives Rally Against Bush Aide-Turned-Critic

[CatWoman]

Conservative religious leaders described themselves as shocked yesterday by a new book's charge that Bush administration staffers privately dismissed evangelical Christian political activists as "nuts" and "goofy."

But their dismay was aimed at the book's author, former White House official David Kuo, rather than at President Bush or his senior advisers.

James Dobson, Charles W. Colson and other stalwarts of the conservative Christian movement defended the Bush administration and questioned the timing of the book's publication, a month before the midterm elections. Some suggested that Kuo had betrayed the White House.

"I feel sorry for him, because once you do something like this, you get your 15 minutes in the spotlight, but then after that nobody will touch you," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a Christian advocacy group in Washington. "These kiss-and-tell books do more damage to the author than to the people they attack."

Kuo, who was deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in Bush's first term, alleges in the book, "Tempting Faith," that the Bush administration used its funding of religious charities to court evangelical voters in Machiavellian fashion.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/13/AR2006101301583.html

so, let me get this straight: Bush is the unluckiest person in the world. he suffers from some ailment that makes him hire only unqualified, incompetent liars who will stab him in the back for their "15 minutes of fame".

[Subdivisions]

1. Your last paragraph sums it up for me...n/t

[fooj]

2. These IMPOSTERS posing as true Christians...

They don't want their cash flow impeded...they will attack anyone in order to keep the power and money coming. How disgusting.

[Monkeyman]

3. Agree these people attack anyone who tells the truth

[ClassWarrior]

5. Bingo!

Have you read John Dean's book yet?

NGU.

[Monkeyman]

13. Yes and Woodwards

[Straight Shooter]

4. Perkins and his ilk are all whistling past the graveyard now. n/t

[ClintonTyree]

6. Think about it.

Even admitting that Kuo MIGHT be correct is a serious blow to these "religious leaders" egos. If nothing, these snake oil salesmen are so full of self importance and yes, PRIDE, that they couldn't even consider this to be true. Bush, such a god fearing. bible thumping christian could NEVER take then for granted. How od they know that for sure? Because he told them so. And that's all they need, the BELIEF that "*" is solidly behind them and their agenda because FACTS certainly have no place in these "christians" minds.
They believe "*" is their pal, therefore it is so. Nothing can shake their faith in bush or god (the two are interchangeable, you know?).

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. The religious "leaders" like Dobson are completely in on the scam, and

making big bucks off of it too, no doubt.

It's the rank and file "followers" sending their checks in who are the deluded ones. I'll bet Dobson, Pat Robertson and all of that gang are completely cynical "Elmer Gantry" hucksters and con men.

It would be so sweet to have tapes of their private conversations.

[cui bono]

14. Exactly. They think their followers are nuts and whackos too.

They have to say that about Kuo or face the possibility of their little kingdom falling apart.

[MADem]

7. And even his Reaganesque religious favorites are turning on him

Like John Danforth. Eh....Poor George, he can't help it....he was born with a silver foot....up his ass.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/287207_joel02.html

The Christian right has virtually taken command of one major political party, ruthlessly uses "wedge" issues, and often demeans those who dare disagree with it.

Liberal punditry? Nope. Such are the conclusions of John Danforth, an Episcopal priest, abortion opponent and former three-term Republican senator from Missouri.

Alarmed at Congress' intervention in the Terry Schiavo case last year, Danforth has penned a book, "Faith and Politics," that has powerful lessons..."Followers of the Rev. Jerry Falwell have distributed a bumper sticker bearing the slogan 'Vote Christian,' thereby conveying the clear message that there is a Christian way to vote, as opposed to a non-Christian or anti-Christian way to vote," Danforth writes.

Nor, he argues, does the religious right do the Lord's work.

"The Christian Right has championed a set of divisive issues that test the fealty of politicians," he adds. "Often called wedge issues, their purpose is to split the country apart."

[KittyWampus]

8. when oh when will Dobson get tarred with the Abramoff goo?

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. There's something I can be praying for

[malaise]

9. Wait until the 'faithful'

find out the truth about Robertson, Falwell, Dobson, Colson, Reid et al. That will be my 'rapture'. They may burn them at the stake.

[sutz12]

10. Their worst sin is always a lack of personal loyalty...

Any other sin is forgivable. Welcome to the world of 21st Century Feudalism.

[texasleo]

11. It's not about faith, it's about money

these religious leaders are only in it for the cash. If they were in it for the faith, they would live simpler lives.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. I TOLD my husband that this was going to be the reaction. I knew

that "blame the whistle-blower" would go into effect.

[NC_Nurse]

17. They are in bed with this admin to the point

where there is NO WAY they could admit any truth to this guy's book.
The fact is they have gotten more $, power, fame and influence with these evil bastards
than ever before. It's not about Christianity anymore, if it ever was.

[partylessinOhio]

18. Jim Bakker always said that Jerry Falwell took over and destroyed PTL

for the satellite. It was all about the money it could bring Falwell.

[spanone]

19. I wouldn't touch Tony Perkins with a ten foot pole.

What a fucking creep.

[Disturbed]

21. Hucksters and con men go on the attack on

anyone that exposes their scams. The Busholini Regime is Fascist and must be destroyed.

[Justice Is Comin]

20. This book is like GOP goop.

It's going to be like having fire ants in your bed.

[bpeale]

22. they HAVE to keep supporting him...

otherwise their flock will think their judgment is faulty and refuse to follow them off the cliff like the lemings they are. they absolutely cannot admit that their judgment is faulty & that they were played for fools.