Everyone knows that the Christian Right is split many ways over who to support 2008; now there are signs that those tensions may be escalating into a rhetorical civil war. The Washington Times reports this morning that Moral Majority co-founder Paul Weyrich, who last week endorsed Mitt Romney, is alleging that the National Right to…

The Thompson campaign has been reading God-o-Meter again. Or maybe it’s plain as day that the Tennessee Senator needs to turn this morning’s endorsement from the National Right to Life Committee into a turn-the-corner moment for his slow motion presidential bid. The campaign has parlayed the endorsement into a fundraising pitch emailed to supporters this…

It’s official. Even after he voiced opposition to a Right to Life Amendment, was revealed to have lobbied for an abortion rights group, and earned the ire of influential Christian Right players, Fred Thompson was endorsed by the National Right to Life Committee this morning. What God-o-Meter found most interesting about Right to Life’s endorsement…

Fred Thompson apparently is about to get the boost he was hoping for in his troubled courtship of social conservatives. Citing anonymous Republican sources, the AP is reporting today that the National Right to Life Committee—the nation’s most prominent anti-abortion group with local chapters in all 50 states—will endorse the former Tennessee senator tomorrow morning.…

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