Frank Schaeffer, the author of CRAZY FOR GOD-How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back calls Republicans: "...the arsonists who burned down our national home. You combined the failed ideologies of the Religious Right, so-called free market deregulation and the Neoconservative love of war to light a fire that has consumed America. Now you have the nerve to criticize the "architect" America just hired -- President Obama -- to rebuild from the ashes. You do nothing constructive, just try to hinder the one person willing and able to fix the mess you created.
Mr Schaeffer, who in "2000 I worked to get Senator McCain elected in that year's primary." Frank Schaeffer has "a file of handwritten thank you notes from Presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush I and II. In the 1970s and early 80s," Mr Schaeffer became a "supply sider" like many Republicans during the Reagan presidency. Mr Schaeffer and his parents, evangelical leaders Francis and Edith Schaeffer played a major role in the Republican Party. Schaeffer and his parents played a major role "creating the Religious Right."
By the mid-1980s, Mr Schaeffer " left the Religious Right," once he "realized just how very anti-American" they were. Members of the Religious Right "wanted America to fail in order to prove they were right about America's "moral decline." Once McCain lost the 2000 election, "Schaeffer re-registered as an independent in disgust with W. Bush. But" Schaeffer "still respected many Republicans. Not today."
Schaeffer asked: "How can anyone who loves our country support the Republicans now? Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan defined the modern conservatism that used to be what the Republican Party ... was about. Today no actual conservative can be a Republican. Reagan would despise today's wholly negative Republican Party. And can you picture the gentlemanly and always polite Ronald Reagan, endorsing a radio hate-jock slob who crudely mocked a man with Parkinson's and who now says he wants an American president to fail?!"
Frank Schaeffer is highly critical of ideologues "like Limbaugh as the loudmouth image of the Republican Party. But" Schaeffer believes "something far more serious has happened than an image problem: the Republican Party has become the party of obstruction at just the time when all Americans should be pulling together for the good of our country. Instead, Republicans are today's fifth column sabotaging American renewal."
Schaeffer explains that "President Obama has been in office barely 45 days and the Republican Party has the nerve to blame him for the economic and military cataclysm he inherited." Schaeffer emphasizes "economic and military cataclysm because without the needless war in Iraq" Republicans "backed we would not be in the economic mess we're in today. If that money had been spent here at home on renovating our infrastructure, taking us toward a green economy, putting our health-care system in order we'd be a very different situation."
Schaeffer is "the father of a Marine who served in George W. Bush's misbegotten wars" believes: if President Obama's strategy to repair our economy, infrastructure and healthcare fails that will put our troops at far greater risk because the world will become a far more dangerous place. So" Schaeffer admonishes all of the "flag-waving Republicans who are trying to undermine the President at home -- Schaeffer Republicans that if "you succeed more of our troops will be killed abroad."
Schaeffer "warns" the Republicans "new leader Rush Limbaugh" calling "for President Obama to fail he's calling for more flag-draped coffins. Limbaugh is the new "Hanoi Jane."
"For the party that created our crises of misbegotten war, mismanaged economy, the lack of regulation of our banking industry, handing our country to rich crooks..." Republican attempts "to obstruct the one person who is trying to repair the damage is obscene."
Shaeffer warns: "Just imagine where America would be today if the 14 to 20 million voters -- "the rube base" who slavishly follow the likes of Limbaugh -- had not voted as a block year after year thus empowering the Republican fiasco. We would have a regulated banking industry and would have avoided our current financial crisis; some 4000 of our killed military men and women would be alive; over to 35,000 wounded Americans would be whole; we would have been leaders in the environmental movement; we would be in the middle of a green technology boom fueling a huge expansion of our economy and stopping our dependence on foreign oil, and our health-care system would be reformed."
Schaeffer reminds Americans that: "After Obama was elected,... Republican leaders had a unique last chance to send a patriotic message of unity to the world -- and to all Americans." Schaeffer explains that Republicans "could have backed our president's economic recovery plan. Since we all know that half of our problem is one of lost confidence and perception, nothing would have done more to calm the markets and project resolve and confidence than if you had been big enough to take Obama's offered hand and had work with him -- even if you disagreed ideologically. You had the chance to put our country first. You utterly failed to rise to the occasion."
Schaeffer warns that "the worsening economic situation is" Republican's "fault and" Republican's "fault alone. The Republicans created this mess through 8 years of backing the worst president in our history and now, because" Republican ideologues "put partisan ideology ahead of the good of our country," Republican ideologues "have blown" their "last chance to redeem" the Republican Party. Republicans "deserve the banishment to the political wilderness that awaits all traitors."
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