The Right’s New Strategy: Anti-Alito = Anti-God

The Right’s New Strategy: Anti-Alito = Anti-God
This morning’s Washington Post previews the right-wing’s new counterattack against Alito opponents:

Several conservative groups, meanwhile, plan a major push beginning Monday to portray Alito’s opponents as anti-God. Talking points for the effort, which will involve ads and grass-roots organizations, were laid out in a strategy memo by Grassfire.org…

Here’s an excerpt from the memo:

First, let’s call out the groups that are attacking Judge Alito from behind their “independentcourt.org” moniker. Who do we find when we lift the veil? The ACLU, People for the American Way, NOW, NARAL, AFL-CIO, Human Rights Campaign, MoveOn.org, Americans United, NAACP, NARAL (see link at end for the full list). And what theme unites these groups? An agenda to purge any and all references to religion from our public lives.

But there a few members of the coalition that Grassfire doesn’t mention:

– The Interfaith Alliance (“A national grassroots organization of 150,000+ individuals of faith and goodwill drawn from more than 75 different religious traditions.)

– Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (“Representing Episcopal, Presbyterian, United Methodist, United Church of Christ, Unitarian, and Jewish national organizations.”)

– National Council of Jewish Women

– Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

The memo says that these groups, and all of the others in the coalition, oppose Alito because they are “radical secularists.” These kind of dishonest tactics suggests that Alito’s backers are worried.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/03/anti-alito-anti-god/

When it comes to implementing the christian god as law I am very anti-god, primarily because I am very pro Constitution. But don't expect the "faithful" to understand that view.

that Alito's qualifications are based purely on his religious extremism.

Unfortunately, the country doesn't seem to mind such extremism, as long as it's Christian and not based on any other religion.

:(

As I was reading the part about "members of the coalition that Grassfire doesn't mention" it crossed my mind that we might be able to come up with an equally cynical response to these people. Call their bluff and lift the veil...

Run an ad with the theme: "Why Religious Organizations Oppose Alito":

Grainy, evil-looking picture of Alito. Slightly ominous voice over, explaining that religous organizations oppose Alito because he is opposed to the religious freedom guaranteed by the first amendment to the Constitution. Show long list of religious organizations that oppose the Alito nomination.

but I'm absolutely in favor of trying it.

How do we go about this?

and cut every social program for poor children and poor women who soon will be forced to give birth to MORE poor children.

a very popular stance at all!

The more they play to that base (less than 20%) the more the approval goes down. Thet's not be blind here there's a lot of bad things for Bush coming, a long dreary succession of problems with everything his administration has touched. They can't do anything right.

Like we're all just gonna downplay 10 dead troops, yeh right. People are not THAT stupid. In addition they're not stupid enough to buy that war on Christmas crap either. (ummm Holiday's means HOLY DAYS).

20% (or less) of our Country buys this crap, the rest of us don't.

Goodbye RepubliCAN'T'S.

We really are all going to hell.