No Faith, No Freedom!

This June, most Republican Presidential hopefuls are gathering to kiss the ring of one of the most foul, corrupt individuals in US political history.  A Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian, thoroughly disgraced and justly so, he is trying to resurrect himself through his latest creation, the Faith and Freedom Coalition.  But Ralph Reed represents neither faith nor freedom.  Instead he represents a total perversion of both, as a close examination of his political activity clearly shows.

First here he is as spun by the main stream media.

Add Mitt Romney to the growing list of probable 2012 GOP presidential candidates speaking at a major social conservative conference early next month here in the nation’s capitol.

The former Massachusetts governor and 2008 Republican White House hopeful will address the Faith and Freedom Conference and Strategy Briefing on Friday, June 3rd, according to an early Monday morning announcement on the organization’s website by Ralph Reed, the founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition. A Romney adviser also confirmed the appearance. In recent months Romney’s beefed up his campaign staff, and last month he formed a presidential exploratory committee.

Last week Reed announced that Donald Trump will speak at the conference on June 4. The billionaire businessman, real estate mogul, and reality TV star says he’ll announce by June whether he’ll make a bid for the GOP nomination.

Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania are the other probable White House contenders speaking at the two day gathering.

The Faith and Freedom Coalition is an influential social conservative organization… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <CNN>

I understand Gingrich just joined the mix as well.

Now, lets step back to January, 2006, and see just what his campaign brought to light.

Fox News has nothing if not, as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright might say, "cojones." Perhaps never more so than on Sunday, when its Big Story Primetime show featured Republican lobbyist and strategist Ralph Reed offering analysis on the Jack Abramoff scandal:

1:00am Big Story Primetime [Faux Noise delinked] Abramoff Ripple Effect? Republican strategist Ralph Reed speaks out on the wide-spread impact of the disgraced lobbyist’s scandal.

Who better that Reed to provide insight and context into the exploding Republican scandals on Capitol Hill? As Perrspectives reported back in September, Reed is quite familiar with the ethical quicksand that is consuming Tom Delay, Bob Ney, Jack Abramoff and his minions such as David Safavian:

The Safavian web also entangles Ralph Reed, formerly of the Christian Coalition and Bush’s southeastern campaign chairman. Reed was on those golf outings with Safavian and Abramoff. Like Abramoff, Reed also feasted on native Americans to the tune of $1 million in fees for casino lobbying. Interestingly, Reed also worked for Bill Gates in 2000, lobbying then candidate and Reed ally George W. Bush regarding the Department of Justice against Microsoft.

As the Washington Post reports today, the taint of the Abramoff scandal may yet swallow Reed, the one-time Christian Coalition wunderkind and current GOP candidate for lieutenant governor of Georgia…

Inserted from <Perrspectives>

He was right at home in and actively involved with the corrupt web of Jack Abramoff and GW Bush.  He was duping ignorant Christians into supporting and financing his greed by misrepresenting issues as matters of faith when they were not.  But that;s nothing compared to his activities involving the Marianas Islands.  This article is from May, 2006.

In August 1999, political organizer Ralph Reed’s firm sent out a mailer to Alabama conservative Christians asking them to call then-Rep. Bob Riley (R-Ala.) and tell him to vote against legislation that would have made the U.S. commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands subject to federal wage and worker safety laws.

Now those seven-year-old words are coming back to haunt Reed, the former executive director of the Christian Coalition and a candidate for the Republican nomination to be Georgia’s lieutenant governor.

"The radical left, the Big Labor Union Bosses, and Bill Clinton want to pass a law preventing Chinese from coming to work on the Marianas Islands," the mailer from Reed’s firm said. The Chinese workers, it added, "are exposed to the teachings of Jesus Christ" while on the islands, and many "are converted to the Christian faith and return to China with Bibles in hand."

A year earlier, the Department of the Interior — which oversees federal policy toward the U.S. territory — presented a very different picture of life for Chinese workers on the islands. An Interior report found that Chinese women were subject to forced abortions and that women and children were subject to forced prostitution in the local sex-tourism industry.

It also alleged that the garment industry and other businesses set up facilities on the Northern Marianas to produce products labeled "Made in the USA," while importing workers from China and other Asian countries and paying them less than U.S. minimum wage under conditions not subject to federal safety standards… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Washington Post>

Reed was supporting turning fourteen year old girls into sex slaves.  I guess that’s how Republican pseudo-Christians bring people to Supply-side Jesus (not the real Jesus).

Rachel Maddow exposes this Republican dirt-bag and discusses his current assault on financial reform with Barney Frank.

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Now, most Americans have absolutely no idea who this guy is, but political insiders know all about him.  You can be sure that Mitt Romney, Donald Trump, Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich know exactly who he is and what he does.  And since they do, what does their pilgrimage to him tell you about them?