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Karl Rove: Stayaway Christians Almost Cost Bush Election
Charisma News ^ | 12/13/01

Posted on 12/13/2001 7:50:35 AM PST by 11th Earl of Mar

STAYAWAY CHRISTIANS ALMOST COST ELECTION

Many Christians believe that prayer played a major role in sending George W. Bush to the White House, but stayaway believers came close to losing him the election, according to his chief political adviser, Karl Rove.

Rove said that one reason the 2000 election was so tight was that as many as 4 million Christian conservatives did not go to the polls, reported "The Chicago Tribune." Although the Bush campaign had expected 19 million evangelical voters to vote for their man, election returns revealed only 15 million turned out to cast ballots.

Speaking yesterday at an American Enterprise Institute seminar, Rove said the Bush campaign "probably failed to marshal support of the base as well as we should have," said the "Tribune." Rove added: "But we may also be returning to the point in America where fundamentalists and evangelicals remain true to their beliefs and think politics is corrupt and, therefore, they shouldn't participate."

Rove said that if the "process of withdrawal" went on it would be bad for the country as well as conservatives and Republicans. "It's something we have to spend a lot of time and energy on."


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2000; christianvote; karlrove; napalminthemorning; rove; wot
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Same on us.
1 posted on 12/13/2001 7:50:35 AM PST by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Hey Karl: there's a good way for the President to make Christians stay away in 2004 - keep appointing sodomites to high office.
2 posted on 12/13/2001 7:53:22 AM PST by wideawake
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Politically unreliable.
3 posted on 12/13/2001 7:53:34 AM PST by JohnGalt
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To: wideawake
And pro-choicers.
4 posted on 12/13/2001 7:54:09 AM PST by ventana
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
I hope there regreting not voting for President Bush today.

(It was my first vote for President.)

6 posted on 12/13/2001 7:55:13 AM PST by afuturegovernor
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Very interesting and if Bush would have run on his beliefs instead of what his political consultants were telling him then he would have won the election in a landslide thanks to evangelical Christians.
7 posted on 12/13/2001 7:55:26 AM PST by truthandlife
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
I believe a big part of it was the undisclosed past drunk driving problem that came to light late in the campaign. People on our side tend to demand our candidates be pure as newfallen snow.
8 posted on 12/13/2001 7:56:02 AM PST by Gordian Blade
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Well, Karl...one of us must be wrong. Who do you suppose it is?
9 posted on 12/13/2001 7:56:13 AM PST by Romulus
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To: theoldright
Bush is a LIBERAL and you folks are suckers if you don't believe it.

It didn't take long for the everybody is a RINO crowd to start posting. (Funny, it's the same day Bush withdraws from ABM.)

10 posted on 12/13/2001 7:57:34 AM PST by afuturegovernor
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
It seems that they understand the problem, but don't know the solution.

For over half a year, Republicans controlled both Houses and the White House, yet Partial Birth Abortion is still being committed on our children. When are they going to pursue the abolition of it? I see absolutely NO movement regarding abortion from the White House or Congressional Republicans.

What a shame!

11 posted on 12/13/2001 7:58:01 AM PST by lormand
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To: Gordian Blade
Re#8 Yep. That's why it was close and Zogby called it. Undecideds broke 2-1 for Gore in the final days, the reverse of what typically happens. The Clymers sure tried and almost succeeded...
12 posted on 12/13/2001 7:58:06 AM PST by eureka!
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To: theoldright
He celebrates heathen holidays in our sacred White House

And just when did the whitehouse become sacred?

13 posted on 12/13/2001 7:58:18 AM PST by Valin
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
bump for later
14 posted on 12/13/2001 7:58:32 AM PST by travelin_man
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
It's too bad that the Democrats openly campaign in churches and bus their folks to the polls, while our folks bitch and sit on their hands.

Four million voters, who are in essence saying that it makes no difference to them whether Gore or Bush won, is an enormous number.

15 posted on 12/13/2001 8:00:00 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: theoldright
Which heathen holiday are you speaking of, and what's sacred (in the religious sense) about the White House?
16 posted on 12/13/2001 8:00:34 AM PST by Polonius
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To: theoldright
Bush is a LIBERAL and you folks are suckers if you don't believe it.

Guess you would have been more happier with Gore in the White House, eh dumbass?

17 posted on 12/13/2001 8:01:02 AM PST by Bommer
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Rove added: "But we may also be returning to the point in America where fundamentalists and evangelicals remain true to their beliefs and think politics is corrupt and, therefore, they shouldn't participate."

Going to the polls without any delusions is one of the most disheartening things a person can do.

Check out a recent Walter Williams article detailing the billions in pork spending that was passed "in the interest of national security."

You quickly come to realize that the "good guys" are only "good" because the bad guys are so abysmally bad.

In absolute moral terms, I wouldn't pee on most republicans if he was on fire. They are detestable parasites.

Their only good point is that republicans know that if they over do it, they kill the host and the party ends for everyone.

The democrats are so much worse because they hate their host and try to kill it, or at least their avarice is so great that it looks like murderous intent.

Republicans are like corrupt cops, democrats are violent home invaders.

18 posted on 12/13/2001 8:01:22 AM PST by hopespringseternal
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To: lormand
When are they going to pursue the abolition of it? I see absolutely NO movement regarding abortion from the White House or Congressional Republicans

They can't because of jumping Jim Jeffords(Dashcle controls the bills in the Senate now). The Republican Congress three times sent to Clinton a partial birth abortion ban and three times he vetoed it.

19 posted on 12/13/2001 8:02:29 AM PST by Dane
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To: Romulus
The more I read about Rove and the apparent extent of his influence in the Bush White House, the less and less I like him. I also think he was instrumental in GW's in less than wonderful ESCR decision.
20 posted on 12/13/2001 8:02:52 AM PST by independentmind
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