Welcome to the "Forgotten Americans Coalition."

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http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/9/24/131326/285

Christian Right Still Neoconned
Neoconservatives selling Iraq War to 'values voters'

By Bill Berkowitz. Talk2Action, September 24, 2007


In the late 1960s and early '70s, then U.S. President Richard Nixon appealed to the country's "Silent Majority" to oppose growing anti-Vietnam War sentiment in the United States.

A decade later, President Ronald Reagan had the Rev. Jerry Falwell's "Moral Majority" working by his side in support of Reagan's low-intensity warfare in Central America, and contra movements in Africa.

During the run-up to, and period following the 1994 Republican revolution that gave that conservative party control of Congress for the first time in decades, the high-profile Georgia legislator Newt Gingrich's band had the Rev. Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed's Christian Coalition stirring the conservative grassroots into action against the Bill Clinton administration.

Now, in the waning days of the George W. Bush administration, Gary Bauer, a former Reagan administration official and longtime conservative activist, is heading up a new organization aimed at countering liberal groups like MoveOn.org, and supporting President Bush's global "war on terror".

Welcome to the "Forgotten Americans Coalition."

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[Solly Mack]

1. I was reading Bauer's statement and the signed statement a few days

ago. I just shook my head.

Same shit, different decade

[hfojvt]

2. Here I thought I could be part of it

since working people and poor people are mostly forgotten. If you are supporting the agenda of the sitting President, and one that is endorsed by all the Republican candidates though, then how can you consider yourself 'forgotten'?

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3. Forgotten my a**.

They represent some of the most powerful and well funded groups in America. If they are forgotten then the Katrina victims received immediate and well organized rescue from a minor catastrophe.

"The "Forgotten Americans Coalition" is composed of a number of veteran conservative leaders, including the American Family Association's Dr. Don Wildmon, Christian Broadcasting Network's Robertson, the Free Congress Foundation's Paul Weyrich, and Tim LaHaye, the co-author of the wildly popular "Left Behind" series of apocalyptic novels, and his wife, Beverly, the founder of Concerned Women for America."