Click here for a short (40 seconds) video of Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and right-wing troublemaker, addressing a gathering of Reagan's religious followers in Dallas in the fall of 1980 as the coalition of movement conservatives with the religious right was taking shape, to the detriment of us all. Here's the money quote:
How many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome: good government? They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.
This was a flat-out declaration by one of the first movement conservatives that Republican success was based on vote suppression. If everyone votes, they lose -- so they have to keep their opponents from voting.
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