Monday, January 16, 2012

BULLETIN: 150 Religious Conservatives For Taft over Eisenhower for GOP Nomination

A group of 150 influential religious conservative leaders have endorsed Senator Robert A. Taft (R-- Oh) over General Dwight D. Eisenhower for the 1952 Republican nomination. The leaders had been divided, with many supporting the candidacies of General Douglas Macarthur and former Minnesota governor Harold Stassen.

“Many of our members have been sitting on the fence, wanting to look more closely at these candidates,” said Kinfolk Analysis Coalition president Pony Terkins. “However we have determined that now is the time to act, when together we can have the decisive influence over the choice. The only major events that we have missed are the caucuses in Iowa and primary in New Hampshire, which are small states with relatively few delegates and not very important.There was not a fear that this is too late; there was a sense that this could be exactly the right time,” Terkins did say that the group was influenced to act now by a presentation by a noted political consultant, who suggested that the group should not wait overlong before acting as their ability to make an impact would be hurt by the fact that many of the delegates were now dead and so unlikely to be influenced to change their minds.

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