The same conservative Christian activist who called a meeting last fall to discuss backing a third-party candidate to counter a possible Rudy Giuliani candidacy is revisiting the idea as Sen. John McCain closes in on the Republican presidential nomination.
Bob Fischer, a South Dakota businessman and anti-abortion activist, said Wednesday that while he could back the Arizona senator over either Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama, he made it clear that he and others in the evangelical movement are not content with those choices.
“I’ll be working in other ways to see that we have additional choices as conservatives,” Fischer said.
He declined to elaborate but held out hope that Mike Huckabee might mount an improbable comeback or that another “good conservative, godly, Christian pro-life” GOP candidate would somehow emerge to supplant McCain. The Arizona lawmaker has opposed abortion during his four terms in the Senate.
