In the mid-1990s, during a speech to the Montana Christian Coalition, Ralph Reed, then the national Christian Coalition's executive director and more recently a top advisor to President Bush, advised the group to heed the words of the ancient Chinese military philosopher Sun Tzu. "The first strategy and in many ways the most important strategy for evangelicals is secrecy," Reed suggested. "Sun Tzu says that's what you have to do to be effective at war and that's essentially what we're involved in, we're involved in a war. It's not a war fought with bullets, it's a war fought with ballots."
...In late March, a tape of Republican Party leaders kowtowing to another powerful Religious Right group surfaced. While it isn't the president's voice we hear sermonizing to the faithful, the tape -- obtained and released by Americans United -- has generated a fair amount of political buzz, particularly in light of the fact that the meet-up was held during the height of the hubbub over the Terri Schiavo case.
According to Americans United, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), offered their remarks during a Family Research Council (FRC - website) -- "closed-door Washington Briefing" March 17-18 at Washington, D.C.'s Willard Hotel. At the gathering, "The pair plotted strategy and talked about a range of political promises, using Mrs. Terri Schiavo's case as a springboard."
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