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Sarah Palin: A Gift From God 09/18/2008 by Kyle Mantyla It is no secret that the Right has been staggeringly overjoyed with John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate - so much so that they are literally thanking God for sending them a …

Right-Wing Legal Group Comes to Palin’s Defense 09/16/2008 by Kyle Mantyla The AP reports that “five Republican state lawmakers filed suit Tuesday to end the bipartisan investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's” role in the “Troopergate” scandal and …

The Return of the "Deeply Held Beliefs" Defense 09/10/2008 by Kyle Mantyla The Religious Right has spent the last several months savaging Barack Obama and his Christian faith, calling it everything from “deceitful,” to “woefully deficient,” to outright …

Bauer Exposes McCain Campaign's Hands-On Role in Crafting GOP Platform 09/05/2008 by Kyle Mantyla On Tuesday, Focus on the Family released audio of a special James Dobson radio program, recorded last Friday after John McCain's announcement that Sarah …

American Right to Life Targets Dobson 09/04/2008 by Kyle Mantyla Now that they are through targeting Mitt Romney , it looks as if the folks behind American Right to Life Action have turned their attention to James Dobson, accusing him of " breaking his …

Warren Vs. Dobson: The Difference is Tone 08/25/2008 by Kyle Mantyla We’ve written a few posts recently arguing that the main difference between Rick Warren and the more traditional right-wing figures like James Dobson is primarily tone.  While Warren …

Will McCain Poke The Right in the Eye? 08/25/2008 by Kyle Mantyla Ezra Klein predicts that John McCain will choose Joe Lieberman as his running mate and explains his reasoning: For the Republicans, however, 2008 can't be [about] mobilization. Their half …

Warren Wows the Right His Faith Forum 08/19/2008 by Kyle Mantyla The emerging right-wing narrative coming out of Saturday’s faith forum at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church is John McCain won in a landslide .   That is not particularly surprising – and …

The Right’s Half-Hearted Support For McCain 08/12/2008 by Kyle Mantyla Matt Taibbi, fresh off his time undercover at John Hagee’s church, returns to the pages of Rolling Stone to chronicle John McCain’s on-going struggle to win over the Christian Right . …

Bob Barr Courts Dobson 08/12/2008 by Kyle Mantyla The conventional wisdom is that Bob Barr’s third-party presidential bid probably won’t have much of an impact on the election or siphon off too many potential supporters of John McCain, but that doesn’t …