Secretive Right-Wing Group Vetted Palin

[dajoki]

Secretive Right-Wing Group Vetted Palin posted by Max Blumenthal on 09/01/2008 @ 08:37am
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/352178

Last week, while the media focused almost obsessively on the DNC's spectacle in Denver, the country's most influential conservatives met quietly at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin. The assembled were members of the Council for National Policy, http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_National_Policy an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy.

CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich. At a secret 2000 meeting of the CNP, George W. Bush promised to nominate only pro-life judges; in 2004, then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told the group, "The destiny of the nation is on the shoulders of the conservative movement." This year, thanks to Sarah Palin's selection, the movement may have finally aligned itself behind the campaign of John McCain.

Though Dobson and Perkins reportedly attended the recent CNP meeting in Minneapolis, a full roster of guests would be nearly impossible to require. The CNP deliberately operates below the radar, going to excessive lengths to obscure its activities. According to official CNP policy, http://www.seekgod.ca/cnpupdate.htm "The media should not know when or where we meet or who takes part in our programs before or after a meeting." Thus the CNP's Minneapolis gathering was free of reporters.

I learned of the get-together only through an online commentary by one of its attendees, top Dobson/Focus on the Family flack Tom Minnery. (Watch it here) http://www.citizenlink.org/videofeatures/A000008016.cfm Minnery described the mood as CNP members watched Palin accept her selection as John McCain's Vice Presidential pick. "I was standing in the back of a ballroom filled with largely Republicans who were hoping against hope that something would put excitement back into this campaign," Minnery said. "And I have to tell you, that speech by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin -- people were on their seats applauding, cheering, yelling... That room in Minneapolis watching on the television screen was electrified. I have not seen anything like it in a long time."

Minnery added that his boss, Dobson, has yearned for a conservative female leader like Margaret Thatcher to emerge on the American scene. And while Palin is no Thatcher, "she has not rejected the feminine side of who she is, so for that reason, she will be attractive to conservative voters."

The members of the Council for National Policy are the hidden hand behind McCain's Palin pick. With her selection, the Republican nominee is suddenly -- and unexpectedly -- assured of the support of a movement that once opposed his candidacy with all its might. Case in point: while Dobson once said he could "never" vote for McCain, he issued a statement http://www.citizenlink.org/clspecialalert/A000008072.cfm last week hailing Palin as an "outstanding" choice. If Dobson's enthusiasm for Palin is any indication, he may soon emerge from his bunker in Colorado Springs to endorse McCain, providing the Republican nominee with the backing of the Christian right's single most influential figure.

Check out the link on McCain's statement, it is no longer there
http://www.citizenlink.org/clspecialalert/A000008072.cfm

[Vanje]

1. Heck of a job, Brownie!

Apparently thats one incompetent evil cabal.

[nc4bo]

2. this one? :)

They always forget about the longlived memory of the internets hahaha.

[dajoki]

4. Great Find!!

Where did you get it?

[nc4bo]

9. citizenlink.com :D nt

[dajoki]

10. Thanks n/t

[peacetalksforall]

5. Common sense? Common transparent weaseling is more like it ,

[peacetalksforall]

3. Because they applauded, she may be President and the soap proceeds and we are

all smiling at the soap part of it NO REALIZING that we're going to get Cheney McCain and Palin or Cheney and Palin - another puppet - a really smart one with her mouth - should they pull off a coup to stay in office or come up with new ideas for stealing it.

The religious right did not get all they were promised in the last eight years. It's pay-up time.

Only heavenly intervention will save us from them.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

6. these groups apparently have taken over the Puke party and have enough

to determine VP selection.

Therefore, I think it is time that the CEO's of the major puke donors (B or A, Fed Ex, Verizen, Microsoft, General Electric, and many more) tell us if they are for instituting a national religion, and for the government controlling our reproductive choices. We know they are for shipping good jobs overseas, and getting rid of the middle class, but I would like to know how they stand on these issues.

[dajoki]

12. Many of these...

right wing groups have taken over the GOP and are funded by many of these CEOs. They used to be on the fringes, but are now mainstream repubs who set policy for our country.

[Ah Xoc Kin]

7. ethics investigation into Palin

August 8, 2008
ANCHORAGE - A former state worker is alleging Gov. Sarah Palin and some staff members used their influence to get a Palin supporter a job in state government.

Andree McLeod filed the ethics complaint Wednesday with the attorney general's office against Palin and members of her staff.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/080808/sta_315789945.shtml

[Justice]

8. now this freaks me out - and makes me worry about McCain's safety

seriously

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Now unlike her hunting, THIS MATTERS this is a Dominionist group

google the term, but the short of it... they want to impose old style biblical law in this country