More Splintering on the Far Right

Hard to believe there's anybody to the right of James Dobson?

Think again.

As the above LA Times article makes clear, there are splinter group within the rabid anti-abortion movement that think Focus on the Family and National Right to Life are not extreme enough.

The rub is over whether to take an incremental or absolutist approach to the elimination of abortion (and diminshment of women's rights). The distinction between extremeist strategies is interesting: will absolutism self-distruct? Probably -- it usually does.

But more interesting is the not-so-sub text captured in the Times. "Money Grubbing Phonies" is what the splinters call the big groups. The resentment within the ranks of the far right building toward the groups that have grown too fat, too powerful, and too arrogant can -- hopefully -- only gain strength.