Posted on 12/13/2001 7:50:35 AM PST by 11th Earl of Mar
STAYAWAY CHRISTIANS ALMOST COST ELECTION
Many Christians believe that prayer played a major role in sending George W. Bush to the White House, but stayaway believers came close to losing him the election, according to his chief political adviser, Karl Rove.
Rove said that one reason the 2000 election was so tight was that as many as 4 million Christian conservatives did not go to the polls, reported "The Chicago Tribune." Although the Bush campaign had expected 19 million evangelical voters to vote for their man, election returns revealed only 15 million turned out to cast ballots.
Speaking yesterday at an American Enterprise Institute seminar, Rove said the Bush campaign "probably failed to marshal support of the base as well as we should have," said the "Tribune." Rove added: "But we may also be returning to the point in America where fundamentalists and evangelicals remain true to their beliefs and think politics is corrupt and, therefore, they shouldn't participate."
Rove said that if the "process of withdrawal" went on it would be bad for the country as well as conservatives and Republicans. "It's something we have to spend a lot of time and energy on."
Not necessarily. Did you factor in the people who DID vote for him but wouldn't have under your strategy?
Glad you finally signed up to fight the good fight. Welcome to Free Republic! But I must ask, where were you in 1998 when we were getting deaths threats from LOR stockholders and wondering if the IRS or SS would call on us?
Btw...the "wouldn't be prudent" comment is a dead give away.
The war against terrorism, likewise, has given us a new term, "Johnny Walker," with which to refer to Islamic fundamentalists in America who would destroy their own country and "kill" fellow citizens in the quest for self-righteous spiritual purity.
We need a term to describe Christian fundamentalists who would, in effect, do the same thing. How anyone in their right mind, and in light of current events, could believe that America would be better off if George W. Bush had not been elected President of the United States is beyond me.
Why stop now?
BTW, my great great great great great grandfather fought at George Washington's side; my family fought for this country, too.
However, that does NOT make the White House a sacred CHRISTIAN site.
Planned Parenthood spent millions trying to defeat Bush and will spend millions more trying to defeat him in 2004. Yet, the GOP refuses to strip Planned Parenthood of the $66 million it gets from our federal tax dollars. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood uses these tax dollars to sue pro-lifers, peddle abortions to minors and, indirectly, campaign against Republicans.
Bush is never going to win over the pro-aborts, so he may as well take steps to completely crush them by ceasing to subsidize them with our money.
Could you imagine how quickly Clinton would have cut off funds to a pro-life group receiving $66 million in federal funds?
Pro-Life Policies Quashed (How RINO Ralph Regula Killed Effort to Defund Planned Parenhood)
Bush wanted to get his tax cut through first. I think the partial birth abortion bans came at the end of the Congressional terms.
Jumping Jim Jeffords put the kibosh on that. Also there is the 60 vote cloture vote in the Senate. With the loss of Abraham, Ashcroft, Gorton, and others in 2000, getting to the 60 vote cloture is much tougher.
You can be cynical if you want, but I will look at the machinations of the Senate.
If the repubs wanted to really have decisive control, then they wouldn't have alienated the conservatives.
Bush' tax cut proposal is a joke, it is insignificant in size. Worse than that is that the Republicans now stand for big government. They are and have been for the last 5 years making government grow at substantially faster rates than the democrats did when they controlled the budget in the previous five years.
All evidence is that the Republicans are today the party of big spending. They're also the party of class warfare in that they come up with special subsidies specifically for upper income people, the Republicans pass special laws for special labor markets for the purpose of lowering wages in those markets, labor markets that blue collar people thrive in, meanwhile the Republicans don't apply the same standards to their own.
Look at any suburban city in America that has a predominantly Republican city council and you will find that they've made laws outlawing the construction of homes in their borders for lower income people.
The Republicans are now spending money so rapidly in Washington that even the Republicans are projecting that they will have to lower social security benefits in future years because of the excessive spending today.
No, your the liberal for wanting Gore to win.
When those fundamentalist Christians see the evil things your centralized education President is increasing, do you think they'll be more inclined to vote for him next time around?
When he took $250,000,000 of tax money (some from those very fundamentalist Christians who see it as evil) to reward biotech companies who work in embryonic stem cell research, do you think that those very same fundamentalist Christians are going to show up at the polls to say, "Give them more of my family's money?"
When Bush is refusing to pursue action against the treason by the former administration, do you expect fundamentalist Christians to forget that there are sins of ommission, as well as sins of commission?
Your best hope to get fundamentalist Christians to the polls next time, Karl, is to have Alan Keyes run on the Constitution Party ticket. But that's not what you had in mind, is it?
Maybe he would be happier if a conservative was in the White House. I guess you didn't think of that. Who's the dumbass?
And continues funding the alphabet agencies. And pushed oh so hard to increase, drastically, federaly regulating public schools, (which will also put the fed footprint on private schools). And is bombing a soverign nation into stoneage, without supplying any proof of terroristic acts by said country.
Yep, he's a conservative allright. So I trust him.
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