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Morning Briefing: May 29th, 2012

By Steve Deace

History of the Evangelical Vote in U.S. Presidential Elections

This blog post from former Bush Administration official and current Ron Paul presidential campaign spokesman Doug Wead is several years old, and was written for the 2008 presidential election. Still, the demographics apply to 2012 with Obama running against a similar Republican to John McCain ideologically. If you want to get more informed on the history and impact of the born-again Christian vote in recent presidential elections, I high would highly recommend reading this.

Republicans ‘Bending’ on Obamneycare?

This article seconds a recent Politico story that cited GOP sources as saying if Obamney care is unconstitutional in the Supreme Court’s opinion, the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill will go for a kinder, gentler version of it and use Tea Party darling Allen West as their human shied for this surrender. However, the most discerning part of the story is where it says the GOP is offering up no alternative plan to Obamneycare. GOP leadership never has an alternative plan, except when it comes to beating their own base in primaries.

Chris Christie is not One of Us

Writing in National Review, Andrew McCarthy says what contacts I have in New Jersey have been telling me all along — despite all the bravado Chris Christie is no conservative. Keep this in mind for when Christie runs for president in 2016 or 2024, and hacks like Ann Coulter and some phony conservative/Tea Party “leaders” sell us on Christie as the guy who can win. Those were some of the same people that suddenly forgot Mitt Romney was named the No. 8 RINO in the nation by Human Events the year before he started running for president. They could very well need their memories jarred again once the check clears.

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  • Jim

    Chris Christie is going to play the role of the next Giulaini. What I want to know is who is going to play the role of the “next white guy in line”.

    Yes, I am focusing on the next election. Pretty well got this one figured out. Romney is a loser.

    Talking about “not being one of us”, I know that Allen West has always been touted as a “tea partier” but like with Rubio I have never felt that he has lived up to that image.  I think the sooner we through Allen West under the bus the better. Let us not forget all those votes on the debt ceiling.

  • conchfritter

    Nice back handed slap – probably from years of supporting unelectable candidates like Bob Vanderplaats: “GOP leadership never has an alternative plan, except when it comes to beating their own base in primaries.”  Beating their own base in the primaries – - spoken like a true interloper!!  In the paragraph before that, you pretty much document through Doug Wead’s research that the ‘GOP’s base’ (i.e. the Invisible man in the sky told me so crowd), only came to the Repbulican party in the early 80s!  For more than a century before that, you were Democrats!!!  If you don’t like a party that wants less government and more liberty and free choices for their citizens, I suggest you go back to the Donkey and ask that he let you back in the tent.  Who is more of a Repbulican?  The Eisenhower Republican who believes in limited government, personal choice and responsibility, and who believes that our foreign policy adventures have cost us blood and treasure we can’t afford to give?  Or the Fiscally liberal, socially conservative “Republican” who thinks we should legislate morality, there isn’t a war they didn’t like, former LBJ supporter who loves the patriot act, smoking bans, hates drinking, gambling and pornography and personal choice, and thinks it’s the governments responsibility to police what happens inside everyone’s personal property?  Yes – there is a conflict in the GOP – between the supporters of smaller government and more personal liberty who have been a part of the Party for decades, and the newer “big government” republicans who ditched the Democratic party and came in the early 60′s-70′s-80′s.     

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