Here is one of the liberal angles on their view of the "moral highroad:" Corvallis Gazette-Times (excerpted) http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/02/17/news/community/thuloc05.txt Churches unite for the environment By Carol Reeves Gazette-Times reporter Leaders send ‘God's Mandate' as message to Congress Four local church leaders are among 88 from Oregon and more than 1,000 religious leaders nationwide who want to remind the Bush administration and Congress that when it comes to protecting the environment the mandate that comes from God is more important than any they might receive from various religious groups. In a statement titled "God's Mandate: Care for Creation" released Feb. 11, representatives from a variety of faith communities are calling on lawmakers to reconsider actions they believe will "reverse and obstruct programs that protect God's creation in our land and across the planet." The document specifically calls for a review of the president's "Clear Skies" initiative — which leaders say will weaken the Clean Air Act — as well as the administration's energy policy, the SSuperfund toxic waste program and proposed changes in the Endangered Species Act. It also expresses disappointment in the United States' absence from the Kyoto global warming treaty which took effect Wednesday.... ...The local Methodist congregation voted Feb. 6 to adopt the Natural Step framework as the basis for all its decisions that might have an impact on the environment. The Natural Step is a non-profit, international organization dedicated to helping businesses, schools, government and other institutions adopt ecological, social and economic policies leading to global sustainability... ...Sister Kathy Carr, social justice coordinator at St. Mary's Catholic Church, is another of the locals to sign up. She explained that St. Mary's belongs to Ecumenical Ministries' Interfaith Network for Earth Concerns and frequently educates parishioners about environmental issues. "I feel very strongly that matters of the environment are moral issues that have to be dealt with n they're issues of life and death," she said....
Here's something that I just read by Matthew Holmes' most recent column.
"The only problem, of course, is that liberals are atheistic, secularist, anti-gun, French-looking sissies, who don't believe in killing anything unless it has not yet been born.
Liberals are banking their future success on tricky word play and patronizing red-state America in order to weasel their way back into power in "flyover country."
If it didn't work for John Kerry—who happily took both sides of every issue in the 2004 presidential election—what makes them think a leftist radical with Foot-in-Mouth disease like Howard Dean can pull it off?
Not to worry, liberals say.
Bruce Reed, president of the Democratic Leadership Council, said: "The job of party chair is different from party nominee. The party chair needs to be an ardent partisan. You can't send a vegetarian to do a red-meat job."
Apparently, Reed did not do well on the analogy portion of the SAT.
Sending Howard Dean to convert Southern conservatives is like sending liberal Senator and KKK Grand Kleagle Robert Byrd to teach a class on Black History Month, or asking Ted Kennedy to deliver the keynote speech for the American Sobriety Council.
Anyway, if liberals wanted a real partisan, why not tap somebody with international influence, like Fidel Castro or Kim Jong-Il?
It seems even Dean himself is willing to overlook the obvious, saying, "That's frankly why George Bush was successful, because he gave the 'appearance' that he had some deep-seated convictions. If you want to excite people in politics...you've got to be a party of convictions."
Or in Dean's case, a party with the "appearance" of convictions."