"The New Right stressed conservative positions on abortion, gun control, school busing, prayer in schools, and other social issues that would transform US politics over the following decades.... Phillips was raised Jewish. He later converted to Christianity."
And you wondered why our politics are now polluted by divisive social issues?
"Howard Phillips; ideologue transformed conservatism" by Emily Langer | Washington Post, April 27, 2013
WASHINGTON — Howard Phillips, a paladin of conservatism who helped lead the New Right movement in the 1970s and later ran three times as a third-party presidential candidate to defend the bedrock values he believed many Republicans had abandoned, died last Saturday at his home in Vienna, Va. A native of Cambridge, Mass., he was 72.
Involved in Republican campaigns and causes since he was president of the Harvard Student Council in 1960, Mr. Phillips rose to prominence in Washington when President Nixon named him acting director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Mr. Phillips’s chief task, widely understood at the time, was to dismantle the social programs created through Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty.
A federal judge ultimately ruled such action to be illegal, and, to Mr. Phillips’s profound disillusionment, Nixon complied....
I'm so glad he disappointed you and followed the law.
‘‘I was confronted with evil, pure and simple,’’ he told National Review, referring to what he and conservative colleagues regarded as the agency’s record of funding liberal groups. ‘‘I was not there very long when I discovered that OEO was the war room for those that were trying to overturn what had once been America.’’
Look, Nixon was no angel, but the case is more complex than the boiled-down bulls*** the Zionist Jew media gives you. As for those overturning America, they are now the Israeli-first, Jewish traitors that staff government.
Look, once you see the emperor and the Empire naked.... sorry.
In 1974, he founded the Conservative Caucus, a grass-roots organizing machine that he would lead as chairman until 2011. His group quickly gained momentum, and Mr. Phillips joined Paul Weyrich, Richard Viguerie, and other conservative leaders who met weekly at Viguerie’s home in McLean to rally what became known as the New Right.
Those guys are the bane of controlled-opposition, "left"-wing talk radio!
‘‘If there ever was something resembling Hillary Clinton’s vast right wing conspiracy,’’ Viguerie joked in an online tribute to Mr. Phillips, ‘‘this was it.’’
While the Old Right focused on economic conservatism, free market economics, and a vigorous national defense, the New Right stressed conservative positions on abortion, gun control, school busing, prayer in schools, and other social issues that would transform US politics over the following decades....
For Mr. Phillips, Reagan’s conservative bona fides were lacking. After the president’s dealings with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Mr. Phillips called him a ‘‘useful idiot for Soviet propaganda.’’
That's funny, because Reagan's administration was sympathetic to Israel but had not yet been overrun. Bush I was outright hostile with the denying of loan guarantees for settlements after the war on Iraq in an attempt to assert the Globalist New World Order against the Jew World Order of Zionist control. He was out, Clinton was in, a perfectly blackmail-able candidate. They aimed Lewinsky at him, and infiltrated the Democratic side of any administration. Bush II? He brought in all the neo-con crazies his dad had rejected in some perverse psychological oedipus thing which I don't want to get into. It's the actions that matter, not what caused them. And our current guy? Straining against the reins of the Israeli horse-master because he knows any new war will mean the end his administration of empire.
We can't win this next one, Americans -- and no one wins if the psychopaths of power reach for the nuclear quiver, certainly not you and me. They have their bunkers, but who would want to come out of them?
Along with other New Right leaders, Mr. Phillips clashed with Reagan over the nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court. They regarded her as insufficiently opposed to abortion rights.
‘‘All they've done,’’ Mr. Phillips said of the Reagan administration, ‘‘is throw us a few bones to keep the dogs from biting their heels.’’
President George H.W. Bush, too, proved insufficiently conservative. In 1992, disaffected with Republicans, Mr. Phillips founded the US Taxpayers Party, later renamed the Constitution Party.
The group opposed abortion and advocated for the elimination of the federal income tax, US disengagement from international organizations such as the United Nations, and the restriction of government to functions such as the national defense and mail service.
I agree with some of the positions, and it looks good, but.... did being on the ballot only help swing or rig elections?
He ran for president in 1992, 1996, and 2000. ‘‘If God wants us to win, we'll win,’’ he told an interviewer in 1996.
Obviously, God didn't get your vote. You know, no offense to the almighty, I'm sure he's quite busy checking in souls every day, but the voting part is/was MY JOB!
That year, his best performance, Mr. Phillips received 0.20 percent of the vote.
Looks like God is the only one who voted for him.
‘‘Every vote I get is a victory,’’ he said.
Howard Jay Phillips was born in Cambridge and grew up in Brighton, Mass. His father was an insurance broker, his mother a homemaker. Mr. Phillips was raised Jewish. He later converted to Christianity.
While studying at Harvard University, he participated in the founding of the Young Americans for Freedom at the home of conservative author and intellectual William F. Buckley Jr. in Sharon, Conn., in 1960....
I will let him have the last word:
‘‘In the long run, we lose only if we fail to fight.’’
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