Posted on 12/27/2006 8:46:42 AM PST by presidio9
An “evangelical consultant” has been hired by Hillary Clinton to help attract Christian conservatives in her likely 2008 presidential campaign.
More than one-quarter of the USA's voters identify themselves as evangelical, a voter bloc that has long been courted by Republicans.
In addition, a similar political operative has successfully aided Democratic candidates in several states in the midterm elections.
Clinton’s new hire is Burns Strider, an evangelical Christian who directs religious outreach for House Democrats and is the lead staffer for the Democrats’ Faith Working Group, headed by incoming Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina.
Incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi created the group last year when Democratic strategists observed that the party lost ground in the previous election in part because candidates failed to reach centrist and conservative voters in rural areas, who tend to be churchgoers concerned with moral issues, according to the Washington, D.C.-based publication The Hill.
Strider was an aide to Pelosi when the group was formed and joined Clyburn’s staff as policy director of the Democratic Caucus earlier this year, the paper reported.
"Observers of Clinton’s expressions of faith say religion has always been important to her, that she attended prayer group meetings while first lady, and that she joined a Senate prayer group shortly after winning election in 2000,” The Hill reports.
"Reporters anticipating Clinton’s ’08 presidential run wrongly discount her expressions of faith as cynical political maneuvering," the observers add.
Clinton is not the only potential Democratic candidate for the White House to launch efforts to appeal to religious voters.
Strider worked for Pelosi. FYI, that should tell you what type of "evangeical" he is.
Just had a flash of the mystic saying, "Edwina, back in bowl." from the movie All Of Me.
Hallelujah! Hillary is going to be a born again politician. She must be feeling Obama's heat.
Hillary recieves a 100% rating from NARL. No matter how much pandering she does, her support there will be negligable unless we nominate Rudy the RINO.
Boy, nothing adds credibility to a story like anonymous observers.
the fact that she even had to hire a consultant speaks for itself.
What do you expect? The libs were highly successful in fooling naive evangelicals that Hastert was to lose his head for Foley's shenanigans. And that they shouldn't vote because some evangelical leader in CO was gay.
Libs know how to use the media to create huge scandals to sway MSM-following evangelicals into voting or voting their way. Sad but oh so true.
There are many sheeple right here on this forum.
Hillary wants someone to explain that "666" in her forehead?
the evangelical block is hardly solid, very fickle, and some portion of it is easily duped. toss out a scandal like Foley and blame it on the "republican leadership", run a few phony pro-life Dems, and some portion of that block will split. this block cannot, on their own, elect a president anyway - even with solid 100% litmus test issues support (which now apparently also must include demonizing Mary Cheney for being pregnant). hitching your wagon to a single horse that isn't strong enough to pull it, is not a formula for victory.
Hillary is a thoroughly unlikeable person, with a grating voice and a condescending manner, all of which makes it highly unlikely she could be elected President. Unless however, voter fraud rules the day, and unfortunately, that's a real possibility with the Clintons involved. The 'leaders' on our side didn't fix the voter fraud vulnerabilities during the years we controlled the Congress, so now we have to sweat it out again. On yet another issue, way to drop the ball, guys.
Selling Jesus just to get votes. It doesn't get any lower than that.
Wouldn't be Rick Warren, would it?
Good point, but I bet if she were up against someone like Santorum or Brownback, she wouldn't get a single evangelical vote. With Santorum in particular, the press would be too busy talking about how much he hates fags to bother with anything else.
These social issues need to go to the states for voters to decide.....and the last thing the evangelicals (and the NARAL crowd too) want is for the voters to decide.
Isn't that the truth. Some on here are blinded by their one issue and don't look too deep at anything else so when they are pandered to, they roll over.
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