Franklin Graham had tied to Palin's selection??? WTF

[tannybogus]

Kopp hiring proved Palin's fundamentalist street cred

So far Gov. Palin's handling of Alaska's Troopergate has focused on why Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan was fired. An equally important question is why Chuck Kopp was hired to replace him.

On June 30, 2008, David Brody of CBS News reported John McCain met in North Carolina with Rev. Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, director of the multimillion- dollar Samaritan's Place faith-based charitable organization. McCain was courting the religious right who, at the time, were skeptical of his social conservatism and his Christian qualifications. After the meeting Graham issued a statement praising McCain's "personal faith" and added, "We had an opportunity to pray ... for God's will to be done in this upcoming election."

Subsequent events suggest that the price of support for McCain by the fundamentalist Christian leadership would be a vice presidential candidate of their liking. Gov. Palin was a logical choice for Franklin Graham, whose ties to Alaska include a palatial, by Bush Alaska standards, second home in Port Alsworth: a community that has often served as a retreat for Christian fundamentalist leaders.

http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/531723.html

She also replaced Monegan with Kopp who had ties to nutjob wing. It is all tangled up. There are too many ties to keep track of

I need to make a graph or chart.:shrug:

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Thanks for posting this again.

It was up earlier today, but needs to be seen by everyone. I had a hunch that Kopp guy was a serious fundie, although it wasn't specifically mentioned while he was in the news.

Please, people, do whatever you can to send Sarah back to us. We need to deal with her here at home.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Not shocked..just nauseated.

[Bluestar]

3. And of course, God's will is always interpreted to be what

the Christian fundamentalists decide it is. They're all goin' down in a heap of flames, baby! Burn baby burn!!!

[saltpoint]

4. Franklin Graham would have been a far more potent choice for McCain

if pandering to fundamentalists was the motivation, and of course it was in the pick of Sarah Palin.

Except with Palin you get the whole heap of baggage that goes with her.

Franklin Graham would have been a demographic problem for us, no question.

Palin is not a Christian so much as she is an Inquisitor, not at all the same thing.