GUEST OPINION: Disgusted that Blue States Have Catholics to Thank
Catholics and Orthodox: Thank Mary for Her Intercession
Catholics Put Bush Over the Top in Key States
This is getting to be old news for us in the truth based world / red counties, but the leftists in the blue counties should hear it again.
Would they villify Mr. & Mrs. Washington, devout Baptists, for example, who would never, in a million years, vote for abortion or gay marriage? Would they eviscerate Mr. & Mrs. Hernandez, devout Catholics, Mr. & Mrs. Patel, devout Hindus or Mr. & Mrs. Al-Suadi, devout Muslims, all 100% anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage?
Somehow, I don't think so. It COULD also be that those "religious right born agains" actually AREN'T all Republicans. There COULD be some Republicans in those mentioned groups.
The bias COULD be just along party lines.
I detect some...oh, never mind, you get my drift.
Does this mean the author considers the Prez a super-religious, born-again Protestant—a.k.a. member of the religious right?
Heck of a label...huh!
I'd like to see some data on the impact that voters of Vietnamese background had on the election. I was an election clerk on Tuesday, and these people (with names like Le, Tran, Nguyen, etc) were out in full force. By the time 7pm arrived, I showed a turnout of 75% in the book of registered voters that I handled, but it was close to 100% for those with Vietnamese surnames. They cannot stand Kerry.
I need to point out, however, that I am not in a swing state, so what I saw did not turn the election. Not like what we saw with the voting block of Cubans in Florida for the 2000 election -- now that REALLY had an impact on the outcome.
That said, it seems to be a very good website to visit.
texas is the reason (277 posts) Sat Nov-06-04 10:39 AM Original message
folks, it's time to let the republicans have the jesus vote.
this whole rural/urban, metro/retro schizm could really be boiled down to one question: "will god protect america, no matter what we do?"
if you answered yes to this question, you are a fundie. these people have shown us that common sense and reality-based government does not matter so much, because jesus will take care of the loose ends.
They are convienently relieved of responsibility for the big thngs, so they can feel free to vote about gays, guns, abortion, whatever. we need to be the voice of reason, of science, of common f***ing sense - for everyone else.
there is no need to stoop to the fundie's level, they will NEVER vote for us anyway. we need to be the party for those who think that our policies and actions have very real repurcussions, and that our fate as a nation IS IN OUR OWN HANDS!
i really think that the fundies have scared the living s**t out of a lot of right-leaning people this year. we need to EMPHASIZE our distinction from them, not try to court them. we need to ostracize the fundies as the raving lunatics they are.
let us demonize them the way they demonize us as "liberal elitists".
we are the age of enlightenment, they are the dark ages. let us draw our distinctions and really win some votes.
Now if we can get a majority of Jews to come to our side, we can drive the stake into the heart of the Fascist/commie/socialist/evil dums.