Posted on 10/28/2006 4:45:43 AM PDT by rhema
Who will go to the polls and vote on November 7? According to the mainstream media, it won’t be values voters. The media’s mantra about social conservatives being disillusioned—a psychological ploy as obvious as Tom Sawyer’s fence painting scheme—has become tiresome; their blatant efforts to discourage the values voters base and keep enough of them away from the voting booths to tip a close election is disgustingly manipulative. It is win-at-any-cost dirty politics with not a whit of concern for the health of American democracy.
If the left’s tired demagoguery succeeds, freedom and democracy will be diminished in America.
The left’s “wedge politics” consists of a thinly veiled scheme to convince the religious right (a.k.a., the values voters), that they are disdained by the Bush Administration. Such crass politics builds on the left’s long-standing stereotype—which took shape in 1993 when a Washington Post reporter said that evangelicals were “poor, uneducated and easily led.”
Don’t they wish!
If evangelicals don’t see through the left’s blatant, pathetic political plot to keep them away from the polls next Tuesday, their absence, the right’s largest bloc of voters, will ensure the left’s control of the 110th Congress.
Surely, evangelicals understand what’s happening.
Surely, evangelicals will not be willing to be mere pawns passively allowing themselves to be moved around the political board by the cynical designs of Howard Dean, Teddy Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, et. al. It is no accident that the cable television stations are still running Mark Foley stories 24/7—endlessly rehashing the embarrassing e-mails that the Republican congressman exchanged with a young male page and endlessly exploring who “should” have accused Foley without evidence. The Media Research Center reported there have been nearly four stories a day about the Foley scandal during a two-week period of late September and early October.
It is certainly intentional that David Kuo’s book casting aspersions on President Bush’s faith-based initiative—which was originally scheduled to come out around year end—was rushed into print just weeks before the election and has been flogged on all the major media outlets. Kuo’s astounding arrogance and his accounts of the White House’s contempt for evangelical leaders is getting far more coverage than the writer’s credentials and experience warrant. Certainly, the rampant media coverage exceeds the credibility of the slim evidence Kuo offers.
In addition, the media are giving extraordinary coverage to a handful of dissident evangelicals—a practice that is commonly recognized as “divide and conquer.” In an obvious effort to marginalize social conservatives by backing them into a corner under a banner identifying them as “extremists” and “right-wing whackos,” anyone claiming to be evangelical and holding non-traditional or non-Biblical views is given front-page headline coverage—no matter how marginal their views or insignificant the numbers of their followers. Thus, the so-called “new environmentalists” and “left-wing evangelicals” are given high-profile celebrity treatment.
Bottom line: If evangelicals stay home next Tuesday, the left wins control of Congress.
Over the next two weeks, the left’s tactics will get increasingly more shrill and the underlying anger more obvious. Their efforts to re-define “evangelical” and to stereotype believers is nothing more than a “hardball” political tactic to keep evangelicals in their “place” –– on the sidelines and out of the voting booths.
The left blames social conservatives for their defeat in the presidential election of 2000. They are passionate in their determination to embarrass and hamstring the right and, thus, regain control of Congress. Also, they want to stymie the war in Iraq and cripple what they perceive as an illegitimate effort—just as the anti-war movement succeeded in prematurely forcing American withdrawal from Vietnam, heedless of the coming bloodbath the communists would rain down on South Vietnam and Cambodia.
If the left can orchestrate a defeat of the social conservatives (no matter how slim), they will claim that traditional values and social issues are irrelevant to the American public. That is their plan: by discrediting conservative ideology and beliefs, by dismissing the values voters as irrelevant, the left will be unimpeded in their efforts to establish left-wing ideology into national policies and foreign policy.
Why attack the values voters?
True believers make unbelievers uncomfortable; and not just uncomfortable, but angry. Witness the left’s efforts to tear down those who strive to live by Biblical principles. Witness the attempts at character assassination of anyone who takes a strong moral stance on social issues. It doesn’t matter that those who hold to traditional values and strong ethical and moral stances tend to be gracious and kind [though not always] toward those who hold divergent views.
Why the anger? Why the venom?
Strong faith and unbending commitment to principle deeply offends postmodernists who don’t want to contend with boundaries or limitations on their independence. The incredible demonstration of the strength of Christian forgiveness by the Amish following the massacre of their children stands as a shining monument to Christian principles; so compelling was the impact of their devotion that many people—including unbelievers—were awed. But this is an election year, and a moment’s notice is all the media dared give their example of Christian love—it just didn’t fit the agenda; they had to quickly “get back with the program.”
After all, the left can’t let truth and goodness get in the way of their lust for power.
Those who stay home and not vote in either this upcoming or future election have demonstrated that they have no stake or standing in how We The People decide its leaders and its issues.
I witnessed this during Vietnam. Don't let it happen again. Vote.
Just last night I saw the ads for the movie about the murder of President Bush. How about that for timing??
Non voters have blood on their hands!!!!!!
Yes, quite frankly, they do.
I will crawl on broken glass to vote. Their ploy is so obvious that I want to make dang sure they are crying Wednesday morning when they are soundly defeated once again.
They can't win on their own positions so all they have is to manipulate and lie. They misjudged with Foley. I would die laughing if their ploy to suppress the value voters cause them to lose their gay/lesbian voters. They had no problem destroying a gay man because he was a republican. Hypocrites.
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Vote "YES"
To stop HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE in VIRGINIA
I hear rumors that the homosexual agenda research institute (kidding!), as most lefty organizations... resort to lies or disinformation To confuse the voters on how to vote on the ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE amendments in the different states. So, I did a little research to be absolutely sure how to vote on it in VIRGINIA only! (other states maybe different). - Public Announcement from EP :)
1 FINAL COPY Proposed Constitutional Amendment To Be Voted on at the November 7, 2006, Election PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Article I. Bill of Rights. Section 15-A. Marriage. BALLOT QUESTION NUMBER 1
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EXPLANATION Present Law The Constitution does not define marriage. Under current statutory law in Virginia, persons who marry must have a license and be married by a licensed minister, judge, or other person authorized by law to perform marriages. Present law prohibits marriages between certain individuals. For example, the law prohibits a marriage between a brother and sister, between a couple where one of the parties is married to someone else, and between couples of the same sex. In 1975, the General Assembly enacted a statute (present Code of Virginia § 20- 45.2) that states "A marriage between persons of the same sex is prohibited." In 1997, the General Assembly added a sentence to § 20-45.2 that states that: 2 Any marriage entered into by persons of the same sex in another state or jurisdiction shall be void in all respects in Virginia and any contractual rights created by such marriage shall be void and unenforceable. In 2004, the General Assembly passed a law to prohibit certain civil unions or other arrangements between persons of the same sex. That law (Code of Virginia § 20- 45.3) states that: A civil union, partnership contract or other arrangement between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges or obligations of marriage is prohibited. Any such civil union, partnership contract or other arrangement entered into by persons of the same sex in another state or jurisdiction shall be void in all respects in Virginia and any contractual rights created thereby shall be void and unenforceable.
Thus, civil unions or other arrangements which purport ?to bestow the privileges or obligations of marriage? are prohibited by statute.
Proposed Amendment If approved by the voters, this proposed amendment will become part of the Constitution of Virginia. The proposed amendment adds a definition of marriage as the ?union between one man and one woman? to the Constitution's Bill of Rights and prohibits Virginia and its counties, cities, and towns from creating or recognizing any legal status by any name which is comparable to marriage. Marriage in the Commonwealth creates specific legal rights, benefits, and obligations for a man and a woman. There are other legal rights, benefits, and obligations which will continue to be available to unmarried persons, including the naming of an agent to make end-of-life decisions by an Advance Medical Directive (Code of Virginia § 54.1-2981), protections afforded under Domestic Violence laws (Code of Virginia § 18.2- 57.2), ownership of real property as joint tenants with or without a right of survivorship (Code of Virginia § 55-20.1), or disposition of property by will (Code of Virginia § 64.1- 46).
A "yes" vote on the proposed amendment will result in the addition of the proposed Section 15-A to Article I, the Bill of Rights. A "no" vote will mean that there will be no change made in Article I, the Bill of Rights."
As an evangelical, I can honestly say, the efforts by the left to influence me to stay home have solidified my determination to go vote...and to vote AGAINST them. They are shameless.
True believers make unbelievers uncomfortable; and not just uncomfortable, but angry. . . .
Why the anger? Why the venom?
Strong faith and unbending commitment to principle deeply offends postmodernists who don’t want to contend with boundaries or limitations on their independence. . . .
After all, the left can’t let truth and goodness get in the way of their lust for power.
I have a slightly different take on this, especially the conclusion in the last sentence. Marxism (essentially the current philosophy of the American left and the Democrats - but I repeat myself) is a utopian philosophy. Christianity teaches that there can be no utopia, no paradise here on earth without God. That gets in the way of the Marxists and their pursuit of heaven on earth.
In other words, the teachings of Christianity directly contradict the teachings of their bizarre, misshapen religion. Since everyone "in their right mind" or "with any sense" would want to live in heaven now, you must either be stupid or crazy to want to resist them.
Christians resist them because the Marxist utopia gives mankind freedoms that God never intended for man to have (free love, homosexuality, subversion of your fellow man to an almighty government while omitting God).
Conservatives resist them because we've seen the destructive effects of socialism on mankind and refuse to let ourselves be taken down that path (Stalin - 20 million dead / Mao - 20-30 million dead / Hitler (National Socialism, don't forget) - 13 million dead).
When we resist them, we thwart their utopia, which enrages them. Their lust for power is partly human nature, but partly their means to an end - creating heaven on earth right here in America. Which would be hell for all of mankind.
As I posted on WFTD:
A pox on thee!
A murrain, a plague,
Pelosi-like,
crawling up thy leg,
like a Deaniac rant,
or a Kerrian flip,
a Kennedy ant
to bite and to nip.
Boxerlike, the shrillness
That comes in the night
The imprecations surely
should cause you a fright
If you do not vote!
Good article. Mrs. Crouse is one of my former professors from college. She is also one of the 900+ people whose FBI file just happened to turn up in the Clinton White House.
If the MSM keeps saying "Value voters are going to stay home," shouldn't that tell value voters they need to go vote?
If CAIR and those who back the jihadis are backing on the Democratic party, shouldn't that tell voters who love freedom and don't want to become Dhimmis which party the Jihadis are afraid of?
If Nancy Pelosi is sitting at home writing her first speech as Speaker of the House because she believes you won't go vote, what can you do to shove it in her face?
If you believe in truth, justice and the American Way, (which the Hollywood machine can't even make themselves say any more), GO VOTE!
This is one battle in the war on terror and the war on America we can all fight.
Don't stay home Election Day!
There's nobody who posts here who doesn't understand what the left is all about.Government control at all levels and erosion of America's sovereignty with an ultimate goal of a UN type one world government with those in the American left naturally being part of the "elite" group in control.For now the Pubs are the only alternative but I hope someday for a third option as I've noticed some of the same attitudes creeping into the GOP in recent years !!!
" The media’s mantra about social conservatives being disillusioned—a psychological ploy as obvious as Tom Sawyer’s fence painting scheme—"
I figured that was the case, suggest that they have no hope so they won't vote.
I'll definitely be voting.
Non Voters have blood on their hands.....My thoughts exactly!!!
Christians that stay home are spitting in Gods face.There`s no excuse!!!!
Staying home is a vote for abortion,gay marriage and hatred of Christ the Lord!!!!
The Left wants to play the part of the "Politboro."
If the Rats win it won't be your fault if you have done what you could to prevent it!!!!
The voting lines have snaked way out the door for days ever since they opened, with waits up to an hour in this heavily Republican county. There's always a long line. It appears to me a lot of people can't wait to vote. The seven voting machines are getting a real workout, and none of these are people who must be rounded up and bussed to the polls, otherwise they won't vote!
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