Did FRC Reconsider Third-Party Nomination?
Ed has a post up about Tony Perkins and the people at the FRC :
Jim Geraghty:
On the Utah meeting: I was at that meeting it’s been misconstrued a little bit. It was not a declaration of intent, it was a declaration of principle that there is a line we will not cross. If the party chooses to break its commitment to creating a culture of life, we’re not going to go in that direction with the party.
There’s only one candidate who has this issue, and that’s Mayor Giuliani. It would be very problematic for the party to nominate a candidate who broke with 30 years of Republican Party history.There’s no desire to create a third party, no action underway, simply the statement that if the party breaks with social conservatives, then social conservatives will break with thee party. It’s an if-then scenario.
I don’t know if I’m going to personally endorse a candidate at all.
Ed:
Splintering will only damage their cause, even in the specifics of this particular candidate. The fight on life issues remains in the courts, and the only action a President could take that affects them is appointing constructionist versus activists judges to the federal bench. I’m glad to see Perkins reconsidering his position, even to the small degree shown in today’s conference call.
