{"id":880,"date":"2008-10-24T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/10\/does-the-christian-right-regre.html"},"modified":"2008-10-24T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T11:58:08","slug":"does-the-christian-right-regre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/10\/does-the-christian-right-regre.html","title":{"rendered":"Does the Christian Right Regret Undermining McCain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by conservative Christian radio host Janet Porter&#8217;s (formerly Janet Folger) recent newscast from the day after President Obama&#8217;s inauguration, Focus on the Family Action has sent a 16-page letter to constituents from the year 2012, recapping Obama&#8217;s first term. People for the American Way, an anti-Christian Right group, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/rights-dystopian-future\">has some details on its blog<\/a>.Here&#8217;s Focus on the Family Action video about the project:<EMBED src=http:\/\/www.citizenlink.org\/flashplayers\/mediaplayer.swf width=260 height=166 type=application\/x-shockwave-flash flashvars=config=http:\/\/www.citizenlink.org\/flashplayers\/playlists\/config_generic.xml&#038;height=166&#038;width=260&#038;file=http:\/\/focusfamaction.edgeboss.net\/download\/focusfamaction\/turnsignal\/ts73-2008-10-23.flv&#038;image=http:\/\/www.citizenlink.org\/images\/turnsignal\/ts73-2008-10-23_2.jpg&#038;searchbar=false&#038;recommendations=http:\/\/www.citizenlink.org\/flashplayers\/playlists\/embed_rec.xml&#038;abouttext=Focus Action's CitizenLink&#038;aboutlink=http:\/\/www.citizenlink.com allowfullscreen=true allowscriptaccess=always> Here&#8217;s the Janet Porter newscast from the future:<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Oc9ueIqwMvs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Oc9ueIqwMvs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>This is all intended to counter the rigorous Obama outreach effort. Interesting to note that it&#8217;s all anti-Obama, rather than pro-McCain (or pro-Palin). That says a lot about how scared the Christian Right is about an Obama presidency&#8211;as opposed to being excited about a McCain White House. The movement is totally on the defensive. What a dramatic change from four years ago, when the Christian Right was so hopeful about what it might accomplish in a second Bush White House, including conservative appointments to the Supreme Court and a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. GOM can&#8217;t help but wonder if the movement now regrets undermining McCain earlier, with James Dobson vowing to oppose him at all costs (he&#8217;s changed his tune since).Now, McCain doesn&#8217;t look so bad after all. But it&#8217;s very late in the game to start making that case.<!--more-->8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by conservative Christian radio host Janet Porter&#8217;s (formerly Janet Folger) recent newscast from the day after President Obama&#8217;s inauguration, Focus on the Family Action has sent a 16-page letter to constituents from the year 2012, recapping Obama&#8217;s first term. People for the American Way, an anti-Christian Right group, has some details on its blog.Here&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Does the Christian Right Regret Undermining McCain? - God-O-Meter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/10\/does-the-christian-right-regre.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Does the Christian Right Regret Undermining McCain? - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Inspired by conservative Christian radio host Janet Porter&#8217;s (formerly Janet Folger) recent newscast from the day after President Obama&#8217;s inauguration, Focus on the Family Action has sent a 16-page letter to constituents from the year 2012, recapping Obama&#8217;s first term. 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