Ann Coulter Quotes
When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.
Coulter, Ann. Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right. Crown, 2002.
That was not always true. Many of the greatest Republican Presidents and other political leaders argued for and passed many new taxes when they thought they were needed. The radical shift to the extreme right of the Republicans started in the latter part of the 20th century and continued into the 21st.
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He was reacting to the Republicans in Congress passing a special law for a single right to die case in Florida. Ironically Danforth himself had always been considered a conservative and he also was an ordained Episcopalian minister.
The Republicans were the secular party at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. It was the Democrats who were the religious party and evangelicals and fundamentalists overwhelmingly supported William Jennings Bryan, the 3 time Democratic Presidential candidate who himself was a religious fundamentalist. Republicans campaigned against the Democrats on separation of church and state issues. See {589654} for a quote on the Republican shift.
Ann Hart Coulter is an American conservative media pundit, best-selling author, syndicated columnist, and lawyer.