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God-o-Meter knew John McCain’s comments about possibly picking pro-choice running mate wouldn’t be taken lightly by the Christian Right. Here’s an email GOM received last night from Family Research Council Action senior vice president Connie Mackey, comparing what McCain said this week to comments he made in April that seemed to rule out a pro-choice…

Karl Rove predicated George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection largely on the campaign’s ability to turn out millions of evangelicals who’d stayed home in 2000. From the December 12, 2001 edition of The New York Times: Karl Rove, President Bush’s top political adviser, said today that Republicans did not rally enough religious conservatives to the polls…

This is not going to make the Christian Right happy. Not one bit. Just as the movement’s leaders were starting to warm up to John McCain, after years of being nauseated by him, the Arizona senator goes and sticks his thumb in their eye, suggesting that he’s not ruling out a pro-choice running mate, namely…

It’s not the name you typically hear on the lips of Christian Right heavies leaning on John McCain to pick a rock-ribbed social conservative as a running mate: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. But that’s Southern Baptist Convention public policy chief–and Beliefnet blogger–Richard Land cited in his recent CBS News interview as his top veep pick:…
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