Notes from the GOP Convention
NewsMax.com Staff
Republican National Convention
Monday, 9:30 p.m. EDT:
Catholics Complain of Double Standard
Republican Catholics gathered at the Church of Our Savior on Park Avenue to kick off the Convention with a Mass to ask God for the humility to lead the nation for the next four years.
"I think it's a beautiful way to start the week to ask for humility which was reflected in the homily today and strength and a sense of peace as we go through the next four days," former Senate candidate Rick Lazio told NewsMax.
Fr. George Rutler complained that, "We have a double standard. We're dealing with hypocrisy. The Riverside Church today had President Clinton speaking from the pulpit at their major service. They were handing out registration for voters – forms and things -- no one talks about Church and State under such circumstances. Double standard – total hypocrisy."
Roy Innis, CORE Honors Faith Whittlesey
Meanwhile, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was busy Sunday night honoring Ambassador Faith Whittlesey with their Public Service Award.
The Ambassador took the opportunity to praise CORE founder Roy Innis.
"Instead of confrontation and division, in the context of a coercive utopian big government, Roy preached a different message – interracial harmony and limited government. He basically rejected the victimology that underlay the position of many of the civil rights organizations and until that time he had the courage to speak the truths of power and he broke away and jumped off the liberal reservation and began advocating individual initiative, free enterprise, the importance of property rights, self reliance and he expressed the colossal error of the lie of big government as the solution to societal problems."
Likewise, decorated NYPD cop Bob Volpe told NewsMax that "Roy has always been on the right side of everything all this time and I'm here to supporting a friend who's supporting a bigger friend George W. Bush."
"Black Republicans are everywhere," CORE's Niger Innis told the troops. "We have an opportunity to match something that is practical politically and morally correct and for blacks folks to liberate themselves from the pessimism of a certain political party” is the goal of CORE.
Kevin Martin, the governor of Political Affairs Director for African American Republican Leadership Council told NewsMax that, "I believe that George W Bush has been the most critical leader America can use in a wartime effort. I believe that he is definitely one who says what he means and means what he says."
CORE leader Roy Innis proclaimed that "It was the Republican Party that freed us from slavery. It was the Republican Party that passed the 14th and 16th amendments. In modern times in the 20th century it was the Republican Party that stood behind the civil rights movement in the late 50s and the guys who opposed the bill were Democrats."
Don King Speaks
Also in attendance at the CORE function was Don King who told NewsMax, "Well I'm very happy to be here today at the CORE organizational dinner and I think some very salient remarks have been made tonight that we certainly can no longer apport to be a one party country. This country was founded with two parties. Right now I'm working for George Walker Bush I think he's the man with a plan for a better America for black and white alike."
Monday, 12:49 p.m. EDT:
Koch Appears
Ed Koch spoke today at the GOP convention and had a little fun with the crowd.
As a former Democratic mayor of New York City, he asked delegates rhetorically, "What am I doing here?"
"I'm here to convert you!" he answered.
Koch wants Democrats and Republicans alike to vote for Bush, and Hizzoner delighted the delegates by declaring, "This year, I'm voting for the re-election of President George W. Bush."
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