Sunday night, Frank Schaeffer was on D.L. Hughley’s CNN show to talk about his father Francis Schaeffer, Michael Steele, the Republican party, and blogging for Huffington Post. Schaeffer trashed Rush Limbaugh, inferring that he was not the true leader of the party, saying the party needed to lose some of its conservative and religious beliefs.
HUGHLEY: And you have said some — you do blog for the Huffington Post. You have written some things and I have read you for a little while. You have written some things that I never heard anybody say out loud. You said the Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues and the uneducated white underclass was a token person of color or up two up in front of the “TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary, all backward, and there is no global warming, rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated class have long since fled.” You believe everybody in the Republican Party is a neocon or an ideologue.
SCHAEFFER: I’d put it differently. I’d say the Republican Party knows that’s who that their base is. There are individuals, private citizens …
HUGHLEY: You mean elected people.
SCHAEFFER: I’m talking either the elected people fall into one of those two categories. Either they are pandering to the religious right — I don’t know what they believe, of course. I can’t get into their head. They are pandering to the religion out right or they are pandering to the neocons to whom every war is a good war. And there is very little room in between.
And the people, for instance like William F. Buckley, who was a friend of my dad’s, or Barry Goldwater. You could have disagreed or agreed with them. But these were not crazy people. These were not Fruit Loops.
HUGHLEY: They wanted a separation of church and state.
SCHAEFFER: Right. They wanted a separation of church and state. They were not using politics to beat people over the head with a moral crusade. They were not looking to start wars for no reason. We moved from a period where the Republicans represented something you could agree or disagree with, to a period where it represents a kind of fundamentalist Christianity on one side and a view of the world, which sees everyone who is other, whether that is black, white, Arab, Muslim, a different country, gay, as the enemy. And basically that’s a very dangerous position.
And so I think when you look at a guy like Rush Limbaugh today, what you’re seeing is the lid off. This is the raw, naked true face of where Republicanism is. And be my guest, if people want to vote for that, fine. We just had eight years of this that drove us over the cliff and you want to keep going over the clip, fine. But as far as I’m concerned, the greatest miracle, speaking of God because I’m still a religious person what has happened happen ed in any lifetime, is the election of Barack Obama. Who I think is in a position to genuinely turn this country around. It’s going to take a while but I’m tremendously optimistic about what he can do.
HUGHLEY: That’s an amazing thing. In your letter. You wrote an open letter to President Obama. You asked him not to even count on Republican backing.
SCHAEFFER: Right.
HUGHLEY: You say that they hate him.
SCHAEFFER: They do hate him.
HUGHLEY: They hate him.
SCHAEFFER: They do hate him.
HUGHLEY: That’s pretty strong.
SCHAEFFER: Rush Limbaugh’s telling the truth when he says he wants him to fail. These people are ideological enough that they would rather take our whole country down and be proven right than be patriotic Americans and stand up and do the thing that every American ought to do right now, which is support the president, whether you voted for him or not.
What a scam. Schaeffer is a full-on sell-out.
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