A shot across the bow

Politics | Religious conservatives signal the GOP they may not wait for a pro-abortion candidate to win the nomination | Warren Cole Smith

SALT LAKE CITY— Bob Fischer, a furniture store owner from Sioux Falls, S.D., opened the Saturday meeting on Sept. 29 by saying he was a "nobody, just a business guy. My heroes are in this room."

Fischer's "heroes" in the elegant, crowded room on the third floor of the Grand American Hotel in Salt Lake City included about 40 conservative Christian leaders. Among them were Focus on the Family's Dr. James Dobson and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. A speaker phone sat on a table in the middle of the room, allowing other activists, including former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer and third-party candidate Howard Phillips, to join the conversation.

Fischer was direct and to the point. He said the group was here to consider one question: If the Republican Party nominates a candidate for president who is pro-choice, should this group throw its support behind a third-party candidate?

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