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Values Voter Summit last weekend in Washington, D.C. confirmed the tight mutual embrace between the Religious Right and the national Republican Party, the How to Take Back America conference taking place in St. Louis, MO this coming weekend demonstrates national GOP figures’ willingness to embrace even the most extreme elements of the right-wing political movement. Mike Huckabee, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Rep. Steve King (R-IA), Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), and Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) have agreed to speak at the event, which is hosted by activists who are actively promoting the most extreme, inflammatory , and false charges and conspiracy theories now making the rounds on the far right fringes, including claims that President Obama is not an American citizen, that his administration is preparing internment camps for conservatives, that the swine flu vaccine is a pretext for genocide, and even that the “cash-for-clunkers” program was just an excuse for “big brother” to get access to people’s email and other personal information for internal spying purposes.
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Janet Porter (nee Janet Folger)
It is probably impossible to overstate the extremism and lunacy of Janet Porter, whose radio program and Faith2Action.org website gives her a platform for promoting the most unhinged of conspiracy theories.
Porter is Mike Huckabee’s biggest fan. She first fell in love when she organized the 2007 Values Voter Debate to which she had personally invited a gospel choir to sing “Why Should God Bless America?” and after which Porter (then Folger) declared that Huckabee had been revealed as the answer to Christians’ prayers for a presidential candidate who shared their views, proclaiming him to be the “David among Jesse’s sons.” During the presidential primaries, she started a front group to attack Huckabee’s arch nemesis Mitt Romney and wrote columns claiming that only Huckabee could prevent Hillary Clinton from throwing all Christians into prison and save her fantasy world from this “evil queen and her dragon of slaughter.”
She has since claimed that God has cursed America for voting for Obama, that anyone who voted for him is bound for hell , and that anyone who has ever voted for a pro-choice candidate is also living under a curse. She has actively pushed the Birther conspiracies and even alleged that Obama’s presidency was the culmination of a decade-long Communist conspiracy twenty years in the making. After the election, but before the inauguration, she called on God to prevent Obama from taking office, while warning that "AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN" to this nation because we deserve God's judgment.
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Joseph Farah
Joseph Farah, the founder, editor, and CEO of WorldNetDaily, is a leader of the “Birther movement,” which has been written off as “nuts” by even right-wing stalwarts like Ann Coulter, and his WND has been responsible for either creating or spreading just about every unhinged right-wing conspiracy in circulation today, including the idea that “soy makes you gay.” He’s become such an embarrassment to the movement that there is a movement afoot among conservatives to boycott those who associate with WND and even the Conservative Political Action Conference, which has welcomed Farah in the past, declined WND’s request to hold a panel at the 2010 event. But Farah is not too extreme, apparently, for Mike Huckabee or the various Members of Congress headed to How to Take Back America.
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