Bob Vander Plaats of The Family Leader, who led Mike Huckabee’s victorious Iowa campaign in 2008, endorsed Rick Santorum for president today. Chuck Hurley of the Iowa Family Policy Center also endorsed Santorum. Speaking as an individual and not …
December 20, 2011Read More
After narrowing their decision to four candidates in the Republican field, The Family Leader is set to announce their endorsement on Monday…or their decision not to endorse at all. With the caucus less than a month away, Bob Vander Plaats claims…
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Rob Boston spent two hours Saturday evening in front of my computer watching the Religious Right’s “Thanksgiving Family Forum.” How divorced was it from reality?
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When Bob Vander Plaats and Terry Branstad were locked in a tight race for Iowa’s Republican gubernatorial nomination last year, it came as quite a shock with the influential Iowa Family Policy Council publicly declared that it would never support Brand…
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![Fools rush in: Bachmann and Santorum’s “Marriage Vow” pledge misstep alienates millions Fools rush in: Bachmann and Santorum’s “Marriage Vow” pledge misstep alienates millions]()
GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann became the first — and probably only, other than nonentity Rick Santorum — to sign on to a Religious Right group’s sex-obsessed and racist “Marriage Vow” pledge.
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