God bless America for dropping the dead donkey( Ouch!)

Scotsman ^ | 11/07/04 | GERALD WARNER

[Pio]

"Among weekly churchgoers, Bush scored 61%, Kerry 39%. This broke down into 70% of Protestants, 56% of Catholics. The latter have had their moral and doctrinal sensitivities blunted by Vatican II, yet there are signs that even Catholics indoctrinated by Justice ’n’ Peace guff are on the turn. "

I love it, the guy writes a great political article and slams Vatican II at the same time.

[I_dmc]

Michael Moore...hygienically challenged human hamburger...

Gotta love it!

[MEG33]

While purist conservatives examine their navels on another thread about how much bigger the margin of victory would have been if only this or that had been done..I want to enjoy this GREAT article..

WE WON!

[Pusterfuss]

The whole vile, patronising agenda of the bespectacled drabby wimmin, the Florida conspiracy bores, the wine-bar Europhiles and the Hollywood freak show has been trashed. Infanticide is out of fashion; embryos may not be cannibalised much longer; Butch and Sundance will not be taking a trip down the aisle in their lifetimes. Consider it shoved, lady.

Life is good.

[jocon307]

"I think I'm in love with this writer."

Me too!

I loved this part "The [Catholics] have had their moral and doctrinal sensitivities blunted by Vatican II, yet there are signs that even Catholics indoctrinated by Justice ’n’ Peace guff are on the turn."

He really gets the Catholics. I knew something was happening when I went to Mass two weeks before election and the priest gave a homily all against abortion, embryo research, euthanasia, he was practically pounding on the lectern saying "THIS IS MURDER!" and all in a quite pointed political context (no endorsement given, of course). I sincerely have never seen anything quite like that in a Catholic Church, and I've seen this man say Mass before, it was amazing. I was thinking "The revolution must have begun."

Thank the Good Lord we won this round, but it's gonna be a slog, we must not stand down, but keep fighting the forces of evil and socialism wherever they are found.

[Rastus]

This guy's Steyn good! Bravo!

an East Coast, liberal, feminist überbitch

A particular apt assessment. LOL.

[ken5050]

Concur..who IS this guy?..we shoudl start a mini-fan club for him..I checked the paper..no e-mail link..can anyne find one?

[livius]

Yes, I don't know if he's a Catholic, but he definitely gets what has happened to the Church since VatII, and the fact that all that is changing now. But this was my favorite line:

the élite leaped to the egotistic, patronising conclusion that the common people had come swarming out, like extras in an Eisenstein film, to implement the revolution that their betters had devised for them.

That's really what it was. And they are just so infuriated that we somehow rebelled against our role in their little drama.

[jocon307]

"And they are just so infuriated that we somehow rebelled against our role in their little drama"

Yep, that's so true. I guess they really did miss the hidden meaning of the stupendous success of "The Passion of the Christ", tens of millions of people that Hollyweird never knew existed.

[Maigrey]

Ouch. That's going to leave quite a few marks.

[Cvengr]

...As forecast in this column last week, America’s Christian and cultural conservatives came out fighting and reclaimed their country. ...those lines of voters were not The People - just people, the mainstream Americans with whom the Democrats are now hopelessly out of touch. They were mostly Christians; but they were not, for the most part, bible-thumping disciples of white-suited tele-evangelists ......The East Coast and Californian liberals had made a science of provocation.

This appears to be a common theme amongst liberal leaning political science interpretters. This interpretation is also echoed amongst American liberals.

Be prepared for many liberal unbelievers to now focus on buttressing their positions in religious overtones with the primary intent of gaining power, while ignoring the consequences of scarring their souls. I suspect many, many, many false doctrines which have only been pronounced by those who hate believers, will now be advocated by the liberal elite in an attempt to 'tactfully' influence the beliefs of the popular vote.

For these reasons, Christians within America need to be more alert and studious of Scripture on a daily basis. Past Scriptural arguments which appeared to only discern between denominations are more likely to become issues between secular power structures, not in an attempt to remain faithful to God through Christ, but in an attempt to advocate one human institution over another.

[RottiBiz]

Iraq and the lies on the part of the left about Iraq may also have offended a moral America. We do not want another Vietnam and Kerry/CBS/NYTimes et al did their best to lie a war that has a moral intent to free people into something vile and sinful.

Excellent point!

[AndyJackson]

That people in the 21st century ... vote on abortion, stem-cell research and homosexual ‘marriage’, instead of ... medical welfare, gender equality and closer engagement with Europe had the liberal élite.

He misses a point. The vote was for a party that opposed more government programs (they were morally reprehensible as well) and against a party that was only interested in the further expansion of more government programs to expand the nanny states reach into the wallets, lives and free time of the people. The revolution is against the professional policy wonks who think they know better how we should spend our time and money than we ourselves. It is on the set of people who view the set of unennumerated powers retained by the people as being a null set rather then everything that wasn't specifically given to the congress.

[AndyJackson]

when they could be supporting measures that would put an extra $500 in their pockets

And which state had a measure to give the people back and extra $500 per taxpayer??

[CDHart]

Wonderful article -- thanks for posting it. I've sent it to my e-mail list.

Carolyn

[lilmsdangrus]

Major b*tch slap!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I think the author should have just told it like it is. /sarcasm

[ride the whirlwind]

Make no mistake, this election was a Christian-led counter-revolution...

God bless America!

[narses]

... voters should be concerned that one in four Americans is aborted in the womb, when they could be supporting measures that would put an extra $500 in their pockets.