Posted on 12/29/2007 9:17:41 PM PST by jodiluvshoes
What will be the deciding issue for Iowa GOP voters on January 3rd?
According to KCCI-TV in Des Moines who commissioned a poll to find out, Iowans indicated it will be the future moral direction of the country.
Northeastern Republicans and radio shows which emanate from the E-fax studios in Orange County California may despise it - but that is the number one issue on the minds of GOP voters in Iowa. The Beltway-Manhattan elite can cluck and curse all they want but the reality is the largest chunk of GOP voters in Iowa (and also much reflective of the rest of the red states) want a candidate with clarity on the moral tests that face our nation directly.
It would behoove the editors of the most prominent conservative online and broadcast outlets to take notice of what these voters have to say. At the very least it would be more beneficial than raining down the elitist scorn that the "leaders" of the "new media" have felt free to unload in increasing amounts in recent weeks.
For years voters who viewed their world through the lens of our societal moral bankruptcy have been whipped by fiscal cons, and defense cons, and told to, "shut up, hold their nose, and take it." With all the grace of an overly aggressive date values voters have been raped of their voice in election cycle after the next. It was cute when we got on board with President Bush; it was fine that we handed him the election in Ohio and thus the nation in 2004. But in 2008 we are supposed to let the talking heads, and "new media elites" tell us to ignore certain issues when we cast a ballot.
We politely decline, "No thank you!"
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Happy Huckabust*!
*According to Wikipedia, Huckabust is a traditional holiday celebrated this time of year to commemorate one of the greatest swan dives into oblivion achieved by a political candidate. When people say Happy Holidays, they usually include this along with Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, Festivus, and New Years. It was first celebrated in 2007 and derives its name from former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who went from polling single digits to leading to relative obscurity all within a two month time period during the 2008 GOP presidential primary season. Traditional celebrations routinely include eating to the point of obesity and then purging oneself, making random silly foreign policy statements, acting overly pious in public venues, and donating to charities whose primary beneficiary is oneself.
I don't agree with this. Small government conservatives have been told to shut up and take it just as surely as have social conservatives. Each group in our coalition gets some tiny bones thrown at us, and we're told to like it because the donk alternative would be worse.
Some social conservatives think the small-l libertarians are keeping them down; some small-l libertarians think the social conservatives are keeping them down. But in reality it's the power-hungry GOP establishment (who have no core beliefs except for power) taking ALL of us for granted. And that is why so many of us are not willing to compromise too much in the upcoming election -- we're fed up.
Money may be great - but it can not counter a collective will of those whose loyalty to God is greater than loyalty to political party.
In fact we're rather through with anyone who tells us that we should ignore what God may say to us in our time with Him.
What many folks, incl. Christians, fail to grasp is that those other things - fiscal prosperity, national security - will come if we trust God FIRST. Our nation's founders without question recognized this. The Bible speaks of it repeatedly. (Do we still believe the Bible?) It is high time for us to cast aside the idol of God the spectator and replace it with regard God as God: the bearer of the hand of Providence. Obey Him... and live.
If the author and others are right these “value voters” are going to end up with hilary. It makes me ill to think of jimmy/slickwillie/huck becoming president.
No, there is only one man running that can make the FiCons, the DefCons, and the SoCons happy. We know that man is Duncan Hunter.
Sorry, I don't give money to televangelists who claim they are collecting dollars for Jesus, and I don't give my vote to televangelists who claim they are collecting votes for Jesus, either. Huckabee reeks of the latter.
...and the ChiComs trade fair.
I did. I suppose it is moral to get government involved in every single issue the majority sees the need for it to be in? See, I believe that this make us really no different than the Left; save for the different issues that us and them see as moral. If this is the way it's going to be then God help us and the free will that He has graced us with.
You want something a little different to read. Start at this link from where it reads "Bootleggers and Baptists" and continue reading on from there for as long as you can tolerate it. Ignore the wisdom at your own peril SoCons! Because when the Left's running the show, the same morality arguments will burst forward to put millions more on the dole.
Well, maybe not! See, the Club For Growth just sent out their 2007 RePORK Card and Duncan Hunter only voted the correct way on "anti pork votes" 11 out of 42 times. A 26% rate. His stance on trade is also very troubling to fiscal conservatives.
I speak as a fiscal conservative. While I am not all that unhappy regarding Hunter's candidacy, I am certainly not truly happy with his candidacy either.
I can understand the hang-ups about open border. I don't have these hang-ups but at least I understand them. But the charge that products are made with "slave labor"? I'm just not buying into that myth.
What candidate have value voters wanted over the years, that they did not get?
Who?
Just as importantly: What? As in, just what constitutes "moral values?"
Take a look at the poll linked by McCullough, and there's no explanation, but McCullough has somehow read the minds of those voters and knows exactly what they mean by a vague, generalized term that makes everyone feel good.
The choice could just as easily have been "World Peace." Who doesn't want peace? It's how you arrive at peace -- ranging from total surrender to all-out war -- that tells the tale.
Garbage in, garbage out -- but that what substitutes for "issues" these days.
Regarding “moral values”, he states what he means: sanctity of life, no lying, no stealing. I thought the only candidates who could pass the gauntlet of his standard were Hunter and Thompson.
Is that why Hillary will win? What kind of logic is that ,Hillary ,Morals ,Please spare me
????How the heck can social cons be upset with Dubya? Fiscal cons, maybe. Law & order cons certainly. But social cons? He's backed us on just about every issue.
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