Posted on 06/08/2008 8:20:37 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
Lori Viars, an evangelical activist in Warren County, Ohio, essentially put her life on hold in the fall of 2004 to run a phone bank for President Bush. Her efforts helped the president’s ambitious push to turn out evangelicals and win that critical swing state in a close election.
But Ms. Viars, who is among a cluster of socially conservative activists in Ohio being courted by Senator John McCain’s campaign through regular e-mail messages, is taking a wait-and-see attitude for now toward Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.
“I think a lot of us are in a holding pattern,” said Ms. Viars, who added that she wanted to see whom Mr. McCain picked for his running mate.
Ms. Viars’s hesitation illustrates what remains one of Mr. McCain’s biggest challenges as he faces a general election contest with Senator Barack Obama: a continued wariness toward him among evangelicals and other Christian conservatives, a critical voting bloc for Republicans that could stay home in the fall or at least be decidedly unenthusiastic in their efforts to get out the vote.
To address this, Mr. McCain’s campaign has been ramping up its outreach to evangelicals over the last month, preparing a budget and a strategic plan for turning them out in 18 battleground states this fall.
The campaign has been peppering over 600 influential grass-roots and national leaders in the evangelical movement with regular e-mail messages — highlighting, for example, Mr. McCain’s statement criticizing a May 15 decision by the California Supreme Court overturning the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, or his recent speech on his judicial philosophy. It has also held briefings for small groups of conservative leaders before key speeches.
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Yes its true. I hate mccain and am sitting out this election.
Do you work for mccain cause it sure looks like it.
I haven’t decided yet if I will vote for him. Let’s see who his VP is going to be. The GOP needs to understand though that some of us have left the reservation and are not going back.
At what cost? I don't think we will survive Bambi.
Jimmy Carter was an inept peanut farmer but Obama and his wife are Marxist lawyers who are chomping at the bits to be in charge.
Are people this naive and foolish to think that these two radical Marxist lawyers are not dangerous .These people plan to dismantle this country and it military ?
I won’t vote for mccain, obama, or hillary. All are evil or suck. No matter who wins, we ALL lose!
“If we survived Jimmy ...”
That’s one helluva premise. The presidency of James Earl Carter set into motion the Islamic threat we live with today. It is the threat our children and grandchildren will likely face thru their lifetimes. Just how is it we “survived” Jimmy?
Presidencies have repercussions that go on for decades and generations. So stay home, or vote third party. But be mindful that your action or inaction will have consequences that will long outlast your or my lifetime.
You should lose lots of sleep.
The Dems voted for McCain. The media keep conservatives from getting much airtime, the Republican Party just let it happen, and you call us naive and foolish? Social conservatives didn’t make this mess. Why did the Dems want him so bad? Maybe they think he is the most beatable?
Polls show otherwise.
About that tag line..
The Antichrist WILL DO JUST THAT. His “social control squads” will be paying a little visit to your door, not long after you help him to get in office. And if you DON’T “allow” them to come into your home and remove “anything “harmful to you or “to the children”..then it WILL be from your”cold dead hands”.
If you McCain apologists want to get the votes out for your man; you’ll have to do a little better than labeling Barack as the “Antichrist.” Obama will be a disaster if he gets elected; unfortunately for us all, McCain will also be a disaster.
And—IF a decent Dem like Zell miller was running against him I WOULD vote for HIM over McCain.
I just think that things will most likely not get “too much” worse With McCain.
With the Antichrist(YES I AM still calling him that, a LOT of people think he is the “messiah..), we WILL have a LOT of VERY bad things happen.
For the sake of the military, and Judicial appointments alone—I will HAVE to vote for McCain...UNLESS he appoints a pro-choice, pro-fag, anti-military VP ..and then..I MAY just stay home. Like Lori Viars (Whom I went to church with a long time ago)...a LOT depends on that.
Well said. Plus, we were lucky that Jimmuh Carter never got the chance to appoint any Supreme Court justices. We won’t be that lucky with a President Obama.
Oh yeah, I really need the NY Slimes to tell me about evangelicalism.
The problem for principled people in supporting McCain, is that the man has no principles. So, what he says one day, he can take away the next. For example, what exactly is McCain’s stand on illegal immigration? After campaigning on ‘secure the border first’, ‘I have heard the American People’, McCain comes out with ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform’ has to be a top priority of a McCain Administration. So, where does he stand? Does his word count for anything? What has he done as a US Senator to secure the borders?
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