October 1, 2007 (LPAC)--A group of "religious right" fundamentalists and others, meeting separately during the weekend meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy, is threatening to split from the Republican Party and to back a third-party candidate if Rudolph Giuliani gets the GOP nomination. According to the New York Times and other publications, this grouping of about 50 people, James Dobson, Tony Perkins, and probably Pat Robertson, plus right-wingers not part of the religious right such as Richard Viguerie. These so-called "Christian conservatives" complain that Giuliani is too liberal for them on social issues such as abortion. (However, as the Los Angeles Times points out, many religious conservatives are willing to overlook their disagreements with Giuliani on social issues, because they agree with Giuliani's major focus on terrorism.)

Lyndon LaRouche commented that these threats against a GOP nomination of Giuliani, are likely to benefit another GOP candidate, Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, who profiles himself as promoting so-called "family values." Romney, along with Dick Cheney, addressed the CNP conference, and, according to the Salt Lake City Tribune, both Romney and Cheney were warmly received.