Santorum's other fundie connections

[meda]

Just watching the Ed Show, and Ed linked Santorum to Ron Luce, the Teen Mania Ministries guy. Apparently Santorum has enforced this guy for homeschoolers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Mania_Ministries

[Witsec7]

Howard Phillips, Dougies dad.

[meda]

Howard Phillips, Dougies dad.

Has Santorum been linked to the Constitution Party? What's the link to Howard?

[Witsec7]

Has Santorum been linked to the Constitution Party? What's the link to Howard?

Howard is a pal of Foster Friess, Howard is president and founder of Council for National Policy, Freiss has served with Howard on the CNP and financially supports the CNP through his foundation. Their membership is awash in fundymoney, they make the TV jokers seem like playtime. Bill Gothard has been a speaker at CNP. Its a horridly tangled web.

[meda]

Foster, the aspirin behind the knees asshole, got it. What a tangled web they weave.

[FundiesInMyFamily]

Ok this may be a stupid question, but even though he is super fundy, how do these guys accept Santorum since he's an evil Catholic?

[meda]

Ok this may be a stupid question, but even though he is super fundy, how do these guys accept Santorum since he's an evil Catholic?

Many of them don't, the Seppi's and the John Bircher folks are all over Ron Paul, and if you go the constitution party website, They are trashing Santorum. Santorum resonates with blue collar "fundi light", Focus on the Family listening types, who overlook the Catholic because he homeschools, has an almost Protestant-ish statement of faith, and because he uses all of the dog whistles from Revelations when he talks about Obama. The hard core Kinist, "states rights" Southern fundies never ever forget he's Catholic.

[brigid]

Ok this may be a stupid question, but even though he is super fundy, how do these guys accept Santorum since he's an evil Catholic?

Opus Dei is Dominionist. Santorum is a member. It will be just fine until the final Judgement ;)

[FundiesInMyFamily]

Thanks guys, that makes sense. Santorum honestly scares the living crap out of me!