{"id":859,"date":"2008-04-05T03:10:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T10:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=859"},"modified":"2008-04-05T03:10:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T10:10:43","slug":"god-is-not-government-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=859","title":{"rendered":"God Is Not Government … Yet!"},"content":{"rendered":"

An organization called “God Is Not Government”<\/em> is placing an ad<\/a> today in Arizona’s Prescott Daily Courier. It is timed to coincide with a campaign visit by John McCain. The ad proclaims that Mitt Romney is “utterly unacceptable”<\/em> as McCain’s running mate and that choosing him would be a “deal breaker”<\/em> insofar as their support is concerned.<\/p>\n

The funny thing about the God Is Not Government PAC is that the name does not mean what you might expect. It sounds like a declaration of principle but, if you look a little deeper, it actually appears to be a lament. Their website describes their mission<\/a> as…<\/p>\n

“…the election to Congress of men and women who hold conservative beliefs on both moral and economic issues.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It goes on to state that they will not support any candidate who will not affirm that they are…<\/p>\n

“…pro-life, pro-family and stand firmly against the unbiblical welfare state that is destroying the spiritual and economic greatness of our nation.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, they are an organization that is devoted to electing candidates who are committed to bringing biblical law to Washington, DC. So if God Is not government now, it will be by the time the God Is Not Government PAC is through with it. They even endorsed the only preacher to run in this campaign cycle, Mike Huckabee.<\/p>\n

Some of the PAC’s member organizations include religious conservative stalwarts: Concerned Women for America, Faith2Action, Mission America, Republicans for Family Values, Defend the Family, Operation Rescue, and Paul Weyrich’s Free Congress Foundation. Weyrich had actually endorsed Romney earlier in the primary. Ironically, it seems that Romney’s endorsement of McCain has caused Weyrich to flip.<\/p>\n

Despite all the tongue-wagging hyperbole, I see this whole charade as a face-saving effort on the part of the social conservatives. The less-than-cordial relationship between McCain and Romney already makes it highly unlikely that McCain would choose him as a running mate. With this show of false bravado, the theo-cons can claim victory when McCain chooses somebody else. Then they can pretend to support McCain as a reward for his acceding to their demands. It’s their way of justifying the compromise of their principles for supporting the candidate they have been railing against for months.<\/p>\n

It’s groups like the God Is Not Government PAC that inspired the prayer, “Jesus, save me from your followers.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An organization called “God Is Not Government” is placing an ad today in Arizona’s Prescott Daily Courier. It is timed to coincide with a campaign visit by John McCain. The ad proclaims that Mitt Romney is “utterly unacceptable” as McCain’s running mate and that choosing him would be a “deal breaker” insofar as their support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,260,261],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-john-mccain","tag-mitt-romney","tag-paul-weyrich"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8039,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8039","url_meta":{"origin":859,"position":0},"title":"EMULATING FAILURE: Mitt Romney Adopts The Campaign Strategy Of John McCain","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/19\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Poor Mitt Romney. The wealthy vulture capitalist who, along with his Super PAC pals has raised and spent more money than any candidate in history, finds his campaign in shambles after a series of embarrassing missteps: The atrocious Republican convention, jumping the gun on statements about Libya, getting caught telling\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Election"","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":334,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=334","url_meta":{"origin":859,"position":1},"title":"Google And The 2008 Presidential Campaign","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/27\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A study conducted by Internet marketing research firm Rimm-Kaufman Group, found that there was not a particularly significant use of paid search ads during the 2006 election cycle. The study is less than pure, in my view, because it includes any ad with political content, including some third party advertisers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5839,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5839","url_meta":{"origin":859,"position":2},"title":"If All Political Ads Were Made Like Mitt Romney’s Ads","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/22\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday perennial GOP presidential frontrunner-up, Mitt Romney, released an ad that contained an unambiguously dishonest soundbite. The ad played a clip of President Obama saying... \"...if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose.\" However, that clip was taken from a speech in 2008 where Obama was quoting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Election"","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7330,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7330","url_meta":{"origin":859,"position":3},"title":"John McCain Throws Mitt Romney Under The Corporate People’s Bus","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/16\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember when Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, NJ, disagreed with President Obama's attacks on Wall Street? Remember when Bill Clinton defended Mitt Romney's record as a businessman at Bain Capital? Have you noticed that anytime an Obama surrogate says anything remotely contrary to a position taken by the President\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6122,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6122","url_meta":{"origin":859,"position":4},"title":"Mitt Romney Fails World Economy 101","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/5\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Republican presidential candidate relying the most on a resume of financial acumen to propel him into the White House is undoubtedly Mitt Romney (or R*Money, as his Highlife Homies call him). But as his first post-Iowa campaign event in New Hampshire shows, he may not be able to live\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Economy"","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=219"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7293,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7293","url_meta":{"origin":859,"position":5},"title":"Mitt Romney Wants To Eliminate Government Bloat – Like Teachers","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/11\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple of days ago I posted an article detailing how Mitt Romney is Protecting America From The Scourge Of Firefighters, Police, And Teachers. I wrote in part that... \"Mitt Romney has boldly come out against big government and its coddling of superfluous bureaucrats that drain our nation of scarce\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Election"","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}