Hard Right Stays on Convention Sidelines

Hard Right Stays on Convention Sidelines

This is what we're up against, donkey people, that you aren't seeing in Grade A, Prime AHnold and McCain Time. The face of the base of the Republican Party:

Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas told an invitation-only Bush rally for Christian conservatives, "We must win this cultural war." He offered an agenda strikingly different from anything voters will hear from the convention platform, including a proposed requirement that pregnant women considering abortions be offered anesthesia for their fetuses.

Oklahoma Senate candidate Tom Coburn called his race against Rep. Brad Carson "a battle for the culture of America" and "the battle of good vs. evil."

Arizona Rep. John Shadegg got a standing ovation from his state's delegation when he lashed out at filmmaker Michael Moore. Shadegg said he told a newspaper executive that he had made a mistake "when you credentialed kind of the anti-Christ."

"The left wing hates George Bush the most because he believes in God," said Youngstown Mayor George McKelvey, a conservative Democrat who drew applause from Ohio delegates.

Another Republican Senate candidate, Alan Keyes... naah, why bother?