RW Leaders attempt to take over racist party 'because GOP is too moderate'

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Would you be surprised to learn that initially Paul Weyrich, founder and leading force of the FCF, had planned to use the racist-linked American Independent Party as the basis for his new political party, which was planned to be formed in time for the 1980 elections?

The American Independent Party was formed to back George Wallace's 1968 presidential candidacy. The AIP's roots are based in the racist south, and the AIP attracted the whites who were angry and fearful following the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965. The AIP embraced elements of the KKK and John Birch Society, as well as members of the Liberty Lobby. The Liberty Lobby was a severely racist and anti-Semitic group, which operated as an intermediary between racist paramilitary factions (like the NeoNazis and the KKK) and the more radical right. In the early 1970s, Paul Weyrich had already linked with the Coors family which funded the start-up of the Heritage Foundation in the early 1970s. In 1974, with money from the Coors family (and the Coors family is not exactly a bastion of minority-friendly sentiment), Weyrich also started the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, which later became the Free Congress Foundation. Since the beginning, the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation have been led and/or received oversight by Weyrich, and their boards of directors are interlinked, sharing members back and forth.

The Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, targeted local elections, looking for candidates to back. The FCF required that the candidates they supported submit to a three-day workshop, and if the candidates toed the Weyrich party line, their elections would then receive campaign support from the CSFC.

Richard Viguerie, king of the direct-mail fundraising industry in America, and the top national fundraiser at that time, worked with the CSFC in their direct-mail money-raising efforts.

From the very beginning, Paul Weyrich and Richard Viguerie were both determined to become national political power brokers. With this goal in mind, they maneuvered their political work on campaigns and issues.

Unhappy with the GOP, which they regarded as too moderate, Weyrich and Viguerie wanted to start a more rightward-leaning political group. Instead of creating their own political party, they went to the American Independent Party's 1976 convention, with the idea of maneuvering Viguerie into the AIP's presidential candidacy seat. However, despite their best efforts, and promises of Viguerie's considerable power and expertise with fund-raising, the AIP chose Lester Maddox as its presidential candidate.

What kind of guys does the AIP chose as it's candidates? The AIP 1980 candidate, John Rarick, a former Louisiana congressional representative, was described by the Almanac of American Politics as the most rabidly right-wing member of the House, who championed "any far-right, anti-Semitic, or antiblack bilge that came across his desk." (Michael Barone, Grant Ujifusa, Douglas Matthews, The Almanac of American Politics).

Instead of being repelled by the ideology of the AIP, Weyrich and Viguerie sought to join with it and utilize it. Indeed, the ideology of the AIP does not seem to be at odds with the ideology of the Weyrich, the FCF, the Heritage Foundation.

The Free Congress Foundation and Heritage Foundation have initiated programs and efforts to limit the progress of blacks and minorities. Weyrich himself, in his book, The New Right Papers, opposed government efforts to end segregation.

Weyrich's Heritage Foundation has associated itself with known racist groups, and at least one very prominent, avid racist (Roger Pearson). Indeed, one of Heritage's former chairs, Ben Blackburn, was an advocate in the 1970s of literacy tests to limit voting rights. James McClellan, who ran the Center for Judicial Studies and participated in FCF conferences, was a top associate of racist Roger Pearson. McClellan also was one of the key operatives working with the Reagan Justice Department to dismantle civil rights protections in the mid-1980s.

Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation and Heritage Foundation have fought affirmative action every step of the way. They have worked to limit voting rights enforcement, to limit enforcement of civil rights law, lessen the redress for victims of racist actions, and further the negative myth of the greedy black welfare grabber.

http://politicalamazon.com/fcf.html

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1. self-kick

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2. Mind boggling. Hateful people. Must have connections to the

Dominionists.

from your link

Home education
School prayer.
Criminalization of abortion.
Restrict the availability of divorce (because of the "states interest" in keeping marriages intact)
Appointing a "guardian" for children in divorce proceedings, whose sole role would be to stop the divorce.
The only place "Issues '88" addresses child abuse is "Restore common sense to child abuse reporting," calling for "better protection of the rights of accused parents."
Rape and battery of women by men is not addressed.
Opposes minimum wage laws.
Opposes rent control.
No sex education besides telling GIRLS to "just say no."
Require parental consent for abortion because parents would need to grant their daughter "permission to take the life of their grandchild."
Encourages women to work at home (elsewhere the Free Congress Foundation has made it clear that it is the right of corporate America to utilize isolated homeworkers that is their concern).