Bush’s Coming Betrayal of the Evangelicals

LewRockwell.com ^ | 12/11/03 | Christopher Manion

[JohnGalt]

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[finnman69]

Lee Reockwell is an a-hole.

[stuartcr]

When it comes to getting elected, you just can't please everybody, all the time....but you say what you have to, to get the most votes/money.

[JohnGalt]

Worth a read...

[Belisaurius]

Lew, you ignorant slut.

[r9etb]

Geeze -- I really tried, but I couldn't even force myself to read this crap.

[FormerLib]

I hope W. is smart enough to push for the Marriage Amendment and doesn't alienate his base.

Perhaps he needs to be reminded of what happend to Dad when he alienated the pro-lifers and the 2nd Amendment-supporters?

Not taking the strongest possible stand against homosexual marriage will finish W.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

I was going to reply, however I believe you covered it. ;-)

[steve-b]

What a steaming pile.

The simple fact is that most people simply don't want the government to get itself entangled in these matters. Joe Sixpack may not hold to an explicitly libertarian ideology, but out of simple common sense he understands that the government just doesn't have time to pander to Elmer Gantry while there is a mob of savages out there bent on the destruction of Western Civilization.

[MEG33]

I cannot improve on your observation.

[dts32041]

Check the track record of the correct pubis president.

CFR which was going to be made unconstitutional by th SS Court.

NEA Funding, made the swimmer partially happy.

Wanting to legalize the illegals.

Hasn't shut the borders.

Signing the biggest welfare entitlement, since the great society.

Trying to cut the combat pay of soldiers.

Not coming out in favor of defense of marriage.

Yeah he signed the ban on partial birth abortions and gave us some of our money back.

Trying to think of something he really stands for, I got it T-ball at the white house.

[bobjam]

Blah blah blah....this author misses the big picture: the coming Evangelical Exodus from American politics. Right now, evanglicals are perfectly comfortable being part of society. But there will be a day when they will decide they can no longer be part of society. Right now they care who wins elections, but soon they may decide that being part of the system is not worth their time and money.

[sinkspur]

You need to tell your boys over at LoserRockwell that Presidents don't get to vote on Constitutional Amendments.

CONGRESS passes them and sends them directly to the states.

Also, since when does a Losertarian want a Constitutional Amendment? This is just the losers over at LoserRockwell kicking up dust.

[massadvj]

Bush is afraid of the neocons. They can turn on him, and ruin him, in a New York Minute. But he does not fear the evangelicals. They have nowhere else to go.

You can replace the word "evangelicals" with "constitutionalists" and still be right on the money.

[elfman2]

This is the second time I’ve seen you post from writers on obscure web sites that can’t reason their way out of a paper bag.

The title is Bush's “Betrayal” of Evangelicals, but the only support is that he “owns” them for agreeing with him on the war so if he doesn’t push through the rest of their social agenda it’s a betrayal. The article’s an unfocused wandering piece of garbage from an unfocused fuzzy thinker.

[sinkspur]

But there will be a day when they will decide they can no longer be part of society.

Says who? Are evangelical Christians a cult? I think not.

Paul Weyrich said the same thing three years ago, yet the evangelicals are still around, it seems.

[JohnGalt]

A fair point, indeed.

Amazing how so many have put their faith in Rove to deliver the 2004 election, eh?

[Mamzelle]

At the National Review, the premier Republican pundit-hole, there are NO evangelicals who are featured writers.

Evangelicals make up around half of Republicans.

But no writers at NR represent them.

Not our kind, dear. Bad dentistry, not enough Ivy ed.

[Russ]

Bush signed the partial birth abortion bill. He said he supported the Marriage Amendment and has said or done nothing to the contrary. He put forward a faith-based initiative which, altough it was rejected this time, will probably be resubmitted if the next senate Republican majority grows. He is a decent, honorable, moral Christian man who, like all of us, makes mistakes and isn't perfect.

Evangelicals have three choices: vote for President Bush, vote for Howard Dean (which issues in the Evangelical agenda does he support?) or not vote at all and, by extension, help elect Howard Dean. As an Evangelical myself I can tell you my vote will be going to George Bush proudly and with no reservations.

[JohnGalt]

Most conservatives and libertarians have herd of LewRockwell.com which is why the get more web traffic than FR.

I take it you are neither?