Reply #87: Religious Right: Bluffing With Three Threes, A Four, and a Two

[Vogon_Glory]

As much as I dislike them and detest their political positions, I have gained a very grudging admiration for the Religious Right's success at buffaloing the Republican Party leadership. Not only has successfully wooing the Religious Right vote become a necessity for Republican Party politicos on the make, especially here in Texas and other areas where Southern cultural values play well, but the RR poo-bahs have convinced Republican Party chieftains that Religious Right support is essential for Republican Party victories in general elections as well.

Look at how well the Religious Right pooh-bahs are guarding their bluff this coming election. They probably know that the Republican Party is going to take a savage beating in the 2008 elections, so they're preserving the illusion of the Religious Right's voters' strength of numbers by laying down an impossible-to-meet ultimatum to the Republican Party's leadership--either force your most popular candidate to stand aside, or we'll stay on the sidelines and cause your party to lose in the 2008 elections (If Mittzie Romney gets the lead for the GOP nomination, the Religious Right pooh-bahs will probably run the same bluff again, since Romney is a Mormon and isn't considered a "real" Christian by the Fundamentalist Evangelicals who comprise the bulk of the Religious Right). When the GOPster candidate goes down to defeat in the 2008 elections, the Religious Right pooh-bahs will return to the Republican Party chieftains and say "See, you lost because you didn't have OUR Religious voters working for you! Now here are our demands...," and the Republican Party chieftains will be left with the choice of meeting those demands or calling the Religious Right's leadership's bluff that their voters won't outnumber the organized and motivated Democratic/progressive voters and the angry independents voting for non-Republican candidates in 2010, 2012, and 2014.