Right Wing Leftovers

  • Rep. Mike Pence won the Values Voter Straw Poll.
  • The Religious Right is confident that its issues will be included in the forthcoming House GOP Contract with America.
  • Mike Huckabee says “contrary to published reports I believe that there is a way to cover people with pre-existing conditions” and says they “should be covered and can be covered by individual states creating pools that provide coverage for people in high-risk categories.”
  • Bryan Fischer continues to pen column after column rooted entirely in his own ignorance, declaring with finality that “we have won the global warming debate.”
  • Apparently, Christine O’Donnell’s past statements are too much for even CWA to defend, leaving them to simply attack the media and conservative men. 
  • Quote of the day from Peter Sprigg opposing repeal of DADT on the grounds that it’ll force the US taxpayers to support all those soldiers who get AIDS: “This creates a financial problem, since taxpayers will have to pay for the health care of HIV-infected service members for the rest of their lives through the military and veterans’ health programs.”
  • The AFA’s Don Wildom received the James C. Dobson Vision and Leadership Award at the Values Voter Summit – here is the intro video they produced: