Karl Rove: Stayaway Christians Almost Cost Bush Election

Charisma News ^ | 12/13/01

[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."

[11th Earl of Mar]

Same on us.

[wideawake]

Hey Karl: there's a good way for the President to make Christians stay away in 2004 - keep appointing sodomites to high office.

[JohnGalt]

Politically unreliable.

[ventana]

And pro-choicers.

[afuturegovernor]

I hope there regreting not voting for President Bush today.

(It was my first vote for President.)

[truthandlife]

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.

[Gordian Blade]

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.

[Romulus]

Well, Karl...one of us must be wrong. Who do you suppose it is?

[afuturegovernor]

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.)

[lormand]

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!

[eureka!]

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...

[Valin]

He celebrates heathen holidays in our sacred White House

And just when did the whitehouse become sacred?

[travelin_man]

bump for later

[Dog Gone]

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.

[Polonius]

Which heathen holiday are you speaking of, and what's sacred (in the religious sense) about the White House?

[Bommer]

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?

[hopespringseternal]

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.

[Dane]

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.

[independentmind]

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.