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...debate over abortion rights comes at a time when the GOP is searching for direction. Several factions have developed, but each is hard to pin down. The "religious right" personified by Pat Robertson must contend with moderates like Weld and Sen. John Chafee (R-R.I.), who in turn lock horns with ultra-conservatives like Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). With Republicans voting for the Brady Bill and becoming pro-choice, the harsh right-winger seem to be losing ground...
Hoping to amplify the voices of the far right, Ellis said, the Administration could conduct a series of appointments, programs and speeches designed to raise the ire of religious fundamentalists--and Republican activists--like Rev. Pat Robertson and Rev. Jerry Falwell...
...Republican Convention in Houston -- which, to put it mildly, was no great advantage to George Bush -- the experts were wrong in predicting that the G.O.P. defeat that year would spell the end of their influence. Led by the Christian Coalition, the organization that rose from the debris of Pat Robertson's failed presidential bid in 1988, the religious right kept up its building process at the local level, jamming G.O.P. committee meetings and state caucuses. The grass-roots effort has paid off in control over the party apparatus in Texas, Virginia, Oregon, Iowa and South Carolina, as well as significant...
...that usually draw small crowds. In Minnesota only about 1% of the state's active Republicans attended the caucuses that chose delegates for last week's convention. Ideological commitment also ensures that the troops of the Christian right work overtime for their chosen candidates. "Those who serve," televangelist Pat Robertson once told TIME, "have a tendency, ultimately, to be those who lead...
...good many voters, some candidates who have its support are playing down the connection. Though several of his regional coordinators are busy forming a Minnesota chapter of the Christian Coalition, even the hard-line Quist is careful to keep his distance. "I have never been in sympathy with Pat Robertson," he insists. To broaden his moral-issues agenda and build bridges to economic conservatives, he prefers to stress his ideas for a middle-class...