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DEL.ICIO.USRalph Reed’s novel: A first review
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This from Publishers Weekly is the first review I’ve seen on Ralph Reed’s upcoming novel, “Dark Horse,” set to hit bookstores in June:
For Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition, politics is a man’s world to its very core — especially when it comes to the race for president, which is at the center of this first novel. Women characters are either wives with drinking problems, tarts who use sex to get ahead professionally (but not that far) or VP candidates chosen purely for show, who are belittled behind the scenes for lack of experience and “lightweight” intelligence.
Democrats are drunks who play dirty and bloody each other’s noses. Cue the white knight — Gov. Bob Long, newly come to Christ, a true independent candidate — to save the day, rock both parties’ worlds and remind the country about good values and the meaning of patriotism. Long is God’s candidate, and with Christian leaders taking his side, he just might trump Republicans and Democrats alike.
Reed’s prose is average for a pot-boiling political thriller, and the crisis-laden plot keeps the pages turning, but the novel’s specifically Christian agenda will satisfy some readers and alienate others.
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By ByteMan
April 24, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this
Long is God’s candidate
God needs a candidate?
And what’s up with Ralph’s sexist view of women?
By Dan Matthews
April 24, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this
Keep in mind ol’ Ralphie got popped plagiarizing an Atlantic monthly article about Gandhi while allegedly writing for the Red & Black newspaper in college up in Athens at the University of Georgia
By JK
April 24, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this
What a tool.
By Rosanna Rosanna Dana
April 24, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this
Why are Conservatives always wearing dresses?
By Jason
April 24, 2008 10:01 PM | Link to this
Writing a novel is the ultimate use of the straw man attack.
By gttim
April 24, 2008 10:21 PM | Link to this
Any Indian casinos in it?
By Nancy
April 25, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
No Ask John McCain!
By Margo
April 25, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this
Ralph is a mysoginistic weiner.
By Mojo Jackson
April 25, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this
Ralph should be in JAIL!
By GAconservative007
April 25, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this
Liberals hate Ralph because he skunked their bottoms in GA. Why do libs hate? I thought they were the group of sensitivity, peace, love and tolerance?
By Keith
April 26, 2008 8:46 PM | Link to this
Maybe these folks “hate” Ralph because he claims to represent values while, as the Abramoff emails confirmed, he apparently has few of his own, if you don’t count money and power. And, he didn’t really skunk anybody in Georgia, unless you think getting his clock cleaned by Casey Cagle was Ralph’s latest form of “guerilla warfare,” painting his face and traveling by night, eh? Only looks like he ended up in the body bag — and good riddance.
By Hypocritical Closeted Homos for Jesus
April 26, 2008 8:48 PM | Link to this
Little Ralph is our leader.