----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 4:33 PM Subject: Re: Honest GOP? was Re: Steel tariffs
> Robert Seeberger wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 12:17 AM > > Subject: Re: Honest GOP? was Re: Steel tariffs > > > > > Irrevelent because most Republicans don't believe that Reagan lied. > > > > And most Republicans would be more than happy to see Creationism taught in > > schools. > > Yeah, well, there are pockets of sanity, anyway -- on the state school > board recently, an incumbent viewed as that sort of person was voted out > in the primary. Well, in a runoff, at least, but still before it went > down to one Republican on the main ballot. (And darn it if the upstart > wasn't running unopposed this time!) > > There are people who vote in Republican primaries in Texas that don't > want the state to run into the same sort of laughingstock problems > Kansas had a little while back.... > And there are many people who do want exactly that. It wasnt too long ago that the Southern Baptist Convention was a very powerful force in Texas politics. It was only during the 80s that Texas threw off the "blue laws". In the post 911 era, it is not unreasonable to conceive of the SBC once again becoming as powerful as they once were. Texas is already a laughing stock over the Andrea Yates trial. xponent Haldol Maru rob
