[GMMAC]

"And why is everyone here so gung-ho for the pro-abortion socialist candidate, Yushchenko?"

We're so much for Yushchenko as for the alienable right of the Ukrainian people to national self-determination and, presumably, the endorsements of that ideal by the Ukrainian Catholic and several other Ukrainian Churches, almost all of that nation's world-wide expatriate community, numerous governments - including those of the United States and Canada - and a long list of prominent international conservatives headed-up by Lady Margaret Thatcher (God Bless Her!) is enough for most of us.

"Tyranny must not prevail." - Lady Thatcher

Source: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=629805&section=news

[GopherGOPer]

Thank you for responding, sorry I'm so late to reply.

In effect you found what I thought you would find. I take those statements to mean that there may be fraud in the election. It doesn't speculate which side. And even if they meant them in a different way, I could come up with US Bishops who wouldn't refuse to give Communion to Kerry, and the statements of the Ohio Priest where he went to Mass. It didn't mean the Catholic Church was behind Kerry.

Its like the election here, in many states like Illinois, and even Minnesota and Wisconsin there likely was lots of fraud. If the dead hadn't voted for Kerry, Bush would have at least won Wisconsin and Minnesota. There was huge turnout in the dem areas in Minnesota where people aren't nearly as regular about voting as in the rural GOP areas.

So you see, it could be fraud by Yushchenko, and there are demonstrators for both candidates, and the whole will of the people thing can go either way.