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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
what does it mean when 22 percent of the electorate say their main concern was "moral issues"? Gay marriage? Abortion? Or is it something broader? For many of us, the war is also a moral issue,

That's precisely what they don't get.

15 posted on 11/07/2004 4:06:56 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Product registration is for sissies.)
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To: ovrtaxt; PGalt; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Our concepts of moral issues are very different from theirs. Unelected judges making policy is a moral issue. Government stealing money and property from citizens is a moral issue. The polytheism of mother earth, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and evolution is a moral issue.

Liberals claim moral superiority with respect to economic, racial, and gender "justice." It's not, however, that conservatives want to deny life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness to the poor, the minorities, the homosexual. It's that we believe that we, as a society, have already guaranteed those rights.

If America was so bad to the poor, why do hundreds of thousands (if not millions) risk arrest and deportation to come to this country illegally? Illegal immigration reflects America's relative advantage as a place to be poor in. It offers irrefutable evidence that America does not unduly burden the poor.

In America, the children of multimillionaires are considered "disadvantaged" deserving of affirmative action while the children of yeoman farmers and factory workers are considered deserving of disadvantage based solely upon their respective races.

In America, it is illegal to assault homosexuals. And heterosexuals are restricted in their choices of whom to marry, just like homosexuals.

Our side doesn't claim that our country is perfect. We know it is far from it. We recognize that great strides have been taken in the direction of protecting the values the Democrats claim as their own (although I'd argue that concern for the poor and for racial evenhandedness are at least equally Republican values).

Our values are denied, denigrated, and made fun of by the liberals. That's why we don't vote for liberals.
40 posted on 11/07/2004 5:52:44 AM PST by The Great Yazoo (Why do penumbras not emanate from the Tenth Amendment as promiscuously as they do from the First?)
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