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Posted on 11/06/2004 3:30:30 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
THE FIRST inkling I had that Sen. John Kerry would lose Tuesday's election came exactly a week before, when I participated in a telephone conference call that the Massachusetts senator had with about 350 black clergy. After former President Bill Clinton introduced him, Kerry told the group that the issue of gay marriage was a red herring.
"I ask you not to be diverted from the real issue in this case," Kerry told the ministers. "Fifty percent of the African-American men in New York City are unemployed. ... There are more black men in prison than in college."
As if blowing off the moral issue that would eventually cost him the election weren't enough, we have to look at what else was wrong with the picture: When you're telling clergy folks that things many Christians regard as sins don't matter, you might not want an admitted philanderer to be the guy introducing you.
Earlier in the campaign, Kerry shared a stage with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, another fella not yet bitten by the monogamy bug, who said moral issues in campaign 2004 were a diversion.
Well, not to the 3.5 million voters who provided President Bush his margin of victory, they weren't. Add to that Kerry's sneaky attempt at demagoguery in addressing the black clergy - the number of black men unemployed in New York City and in prison were "acceptable" to Bush, according to the senator - and you may have a reason why the president got a slightly higher percentage of the black vote this year than in 2000.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
If W had done this, there would be a huge cry from the left about 'separation of church and state' -- rats have been duping blacks for ages by using their clergy.
Read the entire piece if you can.
It's very good.
What's truly sad about it is that they buy into what the RATS are telling them.
Fifty percent of them probably hung up and said "Damn Cracker runnin' for president".
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I said you guys might have saved the republic. Maybe it's true. The margin of four million included enough conservative black votes, didn't it? Maybe more? My hat's off. Thanks again. We should never forget this historic year, and the fact that the descendants of men who used to buy their freedom for $710.96 (and who cared enough to fight on both sides of our CW1) stood in 2004 for families, tradition, freedom (for all) and unity in the war.
I wonder how many churches he will be visiting or how many goose hunts he will embark on now that the election is over......
How about the clergy providing strong moral leadership instead of mindless, manipulative demagoguery???
Many of them are.
How many Botox® treatments, skin peels, hair colorings, cheek implants will he submit to? All done by Teresa's hirelings IMHO.
Second, if I understand a Gallup result I read, blacks in this country only shifted an additional 2% to Bush, from 9% to 11%, perhaps even a smaller jump than that. If that's true, then the Democrats stand on moral issues hasn't caused all that much erosion to the extreme liberal bent to the black population. It's simply an overwhelmingly liberal demographic, and conservatives may have better luck working with Jews and Hispanics. We keep hearing messages to the contrary, but there is no evidence in real life.
It's been a fun wek for me, almost euphoric. I have to temper that with one caveat. I live in Minnesota. In a state that lead the nation in voter turnout, even as high as that nationwide turnout was, Kerry still won Minnesota by a nearly insurmountable 98,000 votes. For the life of me, I can't see where we will find 98,001 more sensible voters. I have this gnawing fear that Minnesota is simply a liberal state...like Massachusetts. Still, I'd much rather lose this battle and win the war rather than have it the other way around. And, I've been active in the party for a dozen years so will likely relax a few more days and attack again.
No matter what, it's been a satisfying week, so let's enjoy the moment.
"Over looking immorality is exactly why so many black men are in prison in the first place."
Character does matter....in personal and public lives!
I am. I also can see a lot of GOP 527 ads showcasing the real Hillary.
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