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If you are in the St. Louis, MO area on September 25-26, you can stop by the St. Louis Frontenac Hilton and join some luminaries of the far-right fundamentalist conservative agenda at “How to Take Back America.” Take a look at the “co-chairmen” and host committee; with Phyllis Schlafly and Janet Folger Porter helming this motherlode of bible-based, flat-earth, non-reality-based thinking, it is surely going to produce entertainment of the highest order.
That said, this is planned as a wound-licking session for a movement rejected in the last election cycle, so now it is in regroup and heal mode.
The organizers of this conferece are asking folks to let them know which workshops they are most interested in. Taking a look at the prospects, below (and you can surf over to vote!), one can observe that: 1) a good number of these fundies and wingnuts haven't a clue about the Internets, and 2) the level of paranoia and fear of education, women and homos hasn't died down one iota.
Becoming a more effective activist
- How conservative activists can use media techniques
- How to use the media to take back America
- How to lobby Legislators
- How to make a three minute speech
- How to recruit candidates and run for office
- How to “Market”, “Frame”, and “spin” your issue
Building a grassroots movement
- How to build a grassroots movement
- How to organize your precinct, a meeting, a House Meeting and a rally
- How to make your state political convention a grassroots event
- How to run a grassroots campaign
- How to activate people in your church
Constitutional issues
- How to defeat a Con Con and a National Popular Vote
- How to keep ERA permanently dead
- How to deal with the supremacist judiciary
Economic Issues
- How to stop entry of illegal drugs and people
- How to stop what isn’t free in free trade
- How to keep global warming from leading to global government
- How to stop spending that causes trillions of $ of debt
Education Issues
- How to protect parents rights against UN treaties
- How to protect parents rights against “village” advocates, schools, and family courts
- How to teach criticisms of evolution
- How and why to encourage homeschooling
Foreign Policy Issues
- How to defend America vs. missile attack
- How to defeat attacks on sovereignty by UN treaties
Social Issues
- How to defend traditional marriage and DOMA
- How to pass effective pro-life bills and avoid pro-life defeats
- How to defend against gay attacks on marriage and religious speech
- How to stop feminist and gay attacks on the military
Using 21st Century technology
- How to use the Internet effectively: Internet 101
- How to organize your community on the Internet
- How to promote conservatism online
Also, the “How to Take Back America” conference has just announced a very special speaker:
Michele Bachmann Confirmed!
Rep. Michele Bachmann will be our luncheon speaker on Saturday, Sept. 26. Rep. Bachmann is one of the few courageous conservative leaders of our day. From fighting wasteful spending to exposing ACORN, Rep. Bachmann is a tireless in her efforts to protect our freedoms.
Kyle at Right Wing Watch aptly noted that “[It] is being hosted by at least three bona fide Birthers: Janet Porter, Joseph Farah, and Rick Scarborough” and that another special guest, probable 2012 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, has no problem hanging out with this fringe crowd:
Just about every insane right-wing conspiracy theory currently in circulation has been embraced by one or more of the organizers of this event, all of whom have actively worked to spread the fear that Obama and the Democrats are out to destroy Christianity and turn America into a socialist hellhole.
And Mike Huckabee, instead of trying to distance himself from the lunacy of his former supporters, openly and willingly continues to associate with them.
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I guess it’s time for a field tripto the gay bars in St. Louis that weekend, seeing if any bar patrons are members of the above esteemed panel…
That conference is in the tony suburb of Frontenac, not far from where I live (less tony suburb…)
Have any of you heard Janet Folger Porter’s voice when she’s been on Mike Signorile’s show? She sounds like Jodie Foster!!
Maybe she’ll show up at Attitudes, Novak’s or Nancy’s Place that weekend…
How on earthcan they “take back” what they never had to begin with?
No workshop by gay son, John Schlafly ?On how to shut up his mother’s destructive and dehumanizing conservative organization.
Birthers and Bigots and Bachman……oh myBirthers and Bigots and Bachman……oh my
Birthers and Bigots and Bachman……oh my
Birthers and Bigots and Bachman……oh my
Their logo is questionable, too.http://www.howtotakebackameric…
Is it just me or does that man look like he’s holding an automatic rifle?
the National Popular Vote billThe National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
Every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections.
The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes–that is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
The National Popular Vote bill has passed 29 state legislative chambers, in small, medium-small, medium, and large states, including one house in Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oregon, and both houses in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. The bill has been enacted by Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, and Washington. These five states possess 61 electoral votes — 23% of the 270 necessary to bring the law into effect.
See http://www.NationalPopularVote…
The ConstitutionWhat the Founding Fathers said in the U.S. Constitution about how electors should be awarded is: “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors . . .” The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as “plenary” and “exclusive.”
Neither of the two most important features of the current system of electing the President (namely, that the voters may vote and the winner-take-all rule) are in the U.S. Constitution. Neither was the choice of the Founders when they went back to their states to organize the nation’s first presidential election.
In 1789, in the nation’s first election, the people had no vote for President in most states, it was necessary to own a substantial amount of property in order to vote.
In 1789 only three states used the winner-take-all rule.
There is no valid argument that the winner-take-all rule is entitled to any special deference based on history or the historical meaning of the words in the U.S. Constitution. The winner-take-all rule (i.e., awarding all of a state’s electoral votes to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in a particular state) is not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, the debates of the Constitutional Convention, or the Federalist Papers. The actions taken by the Founding Fathers make it clear that they never gave their imprimatur to the winner-take-all rule.
As a result of changes in state laws, the people have the right to vote for presidential electors in 100% of the states, there are no property requirements for voting in any state, and the winner-take-all rule is used by 48 of the 50 states.
The normal process of effecting change in the method of electing the President is specified in the U.S. Constitution, namely action by the state legislatures. This is how the current system was created, and this is the built-in method that the Constitution provides for making changes.
Either that or a rope
Since it obviously terrifies them… wonder what it would take to start up an ERA movement again? this time, equal rights for ALL?
” How to keep ERA permanently dead”lol. Now there’s a blast from the past. I wonder how many of Mother Schafley’s potential conference attendees even know what she’s talking about there?
Either way,I don’t trust them with ropes, either.
This is the fringe of the fringeNothing these folks say or don’t say matters to ANYONE, who matters, or has the least amount of political clout.
A blast from the pastBefore his timely death, bigoted minister and head of the virulently anti-gay Coral Ridge Ministries D James Kennedy held annual conferences entitled what was told to the public at large as “Take Back America”. In fact the full title was “Take Back America for Christ”!
Janey Folger was part of these festivities of fascism and wet dreams of totalitarian, theocratic rule of every segment of American society. It looks like she’s trying to keep the flames of Kennedy’s dream alive.
Here’s hoping that some anti-hate protesters like Soulforce get out there and show the bigots what real Christianity’s like!
I think he’s in the process of disemboweling America
Not to be a scare-monger…but it is always a bad idea to think that Fringers of any stripe never have a sympathetic ear within the Halls of Power. The fact that we even know their names proves that point.
All conquests begin with a betrayal.
They know about ERA; it is a spectre that they perpetually use to scare childrendullards, Catholics, Mormons, Baptists and other misogynists….