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."

[afuturegovernor]

Bush' tax cut proposal is a joke, it is insignificant in size.

President Bush got a bigger tax cut through than anyone thought imageable. We have a President (a good one) not a dicator

[Francohio]

Karl Rove has the unique ability to make any race a tight one, even a race against a demonstrable mental case like Al Gore.

First, he uses Democrat ad agencies full of campaign spies. Then he lets them waste millions producing TV commercials unworthy of a used car lot, and mishandles their placement. He also took no successful advantage of few modern 'Narrowcasting' techniques. He had no strategy for coping with vote fraud and didn't even alert the public that it was planned in California, Pennsylvania, Missouri, etc. when every Freeper worthy of their salt knew damn well what was going down.

Bush won despite Karl Rove, the idiot savant of the Political Strategy game.

Must have been divine intervention.

[TRY ONE]

"Yea, keep voting for the Algores...they're closer to your views! No, not Al Gore, but I aspire to live my life in keeping with biblical principles. Therefore, I cannot vote for a man who would do nothing about the wholesale murder of the unborn and the headlong rush into a secular humanistic society. If you listen closely to Bush you will begin to doubt the sincerity of his Christian beliefs very quickly."

Get real!

Liberals took over incrementally!

We can only recover incrementally!

Look what happened when Newt tried to go too fast!

[Tall_Texan]

**The likes of Falwell and Robertson are never happy about anything. They always find something to be mad about, and so they convinced themselves to be mad enough at Bush to not go to the polls.**

Spoken in total ignorance. Both Falwell and Robertson were on the Bush bandwagon from an early stage and, to my knowledge, never uttered a peep of disastisfaction about issues with Bush during the campaign. I think they both kept a lower profile, in part so as not to be a lightning rod for Christian bashers out there who might otherwise have been attracted to Bush.

But there was no question that, too their own, they were publicly pro-Bush early - even while Bauer was running.

[Poohbah]

I just call them "idiots" and some unprintable terms.

In 1996, there was a Republican conservative running in my state assembly district who was pro-choice, against a VERY liberal Democrat. We had a solid shot at the seat...

Until the local "pro-life" activists decided to push for a American Independent candidate who had NO chance of winning the election, but managed to split the vote. The result was that we got a pro-abort, pro-gay-marriage, tax-and-spend maniac in the statehouse.

The pro-life crowd then had the gall to BRAG about what they had accomplished--they said that they "sent a message" to the local GOP.

Well, the message that the local GOP got was that the pro-life community were a bunch of spoiled children, and began working diligently to purge these folks from any important position in the party.

Meanwhile, the homosexual and abortion agenda continues to advance smartly in the statehouse.

Nice move, guys! With friends like y'all, we don't need enemies...

[Dane]

And is bombing a soverign nation into stoneage, without supplying any proof of terroristic acts by said country

Whewww! I guess you didn't see the videotape of OBL taking credit, even though it is on every network and radio.

You are a Ragin1. A Ragin lunatic.

[okie01]

"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."

I believe you are exactly right. In both respects.

[Ditto]

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."

Hmmmmm? The exact same logic a lot of people use to stay away from religion. With corrupt people like Jim Baaker and Jimmy Schweiker, they should they participate.

Dumb logic, even dumber people. If you don't play, you have no say.

[Ragin1]

Why no Dane I didn't. You speak Arabic?

[oldvike]

Here's a good idea. Bush should appoint nothing but religious right fanatics. That would ensure that a conservative never, ever, ever gets elected again and thus puts those scummy liberals in office for the forever. Sometimes you have to know when to pick your fights and this ain't one of them.

[bray]

Then don't complain when a demonicRat is soiling the Oval Office if you stay home on principles! I must have missed the part in the Bible that announced you were God??

Pray for GW and the Truth

[Howlin]

If you listen closely to Bush you will begin to doubt the sincerity of his Christian beliefs very quickly.

You mean because Bush doesn't believe EXACTLY the way you believe?

[Boston Capitalist]

The drunk-driving reports the weekend before the election probably had a lot to do with them staying home. The people who would take something like that most seriously are the people who would normally support Bush.

Most of the polls had Bush up at least three or four points befure the DUI claim and then things collapsed fast over the weekend.

Rove is complaining about 4m Christians who stayed home and that is roughly 4% of the populace.

So Gore's tactic was a huge succes.

[mercy]

You wouldn't vote for Jesus Christ if he stood for election. He's a Jew after all. Sickening. I have some issues with Bush but I certainly know my patriotic duty to vote against a puke like albore when I see it. What will you be whining about if W IS able to maintain this astounding popularity of his and actually do some of the things you are whining about in his second term? I'm sure you'll find plenty to moan about. He certainly cannot do them in his first term when he just barely squeeked through (thanks to twits like you). I hope they keep you in a special out of the way section of Heaven when I get there cause I don't want to see your sorry ass in any way shape or form.

[Ditto]

Make that "With corrupt people like Jim Baaker and Jimmy Schweiker, why should they participate?

[Howlin]

Hand what over? The White House? I don't want it in ANY specific religion's hands. It should celebrate ALL the religions of this country. In case you didn't know, it does belong to ALL the people of this country, not "some more than others."