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."
Well there are a lot of folks around here complaining of wasted bandwidth all the time (for all text posts, too), and that technique would certainly help in that regard. Somewhat more seriously, Sulla was not much of a stickler on method, since execution of a citizen was rare in his day, and they crucified non-citizens, so I don't think that there were many skilled axemen then. I believe that most of the victims of the proscriptions were killed with daggers or the gladius, probably a few clubbings and suchlike too, I guess.
Mom, you hit it exactly. (I'm starting to like you.) The notion that Christians are narrow-minded rubes with pinched moral codes to match their pinched intellects, just goes to show how desperately misunderstood He and His followers are. Of course, not all of the "misunderstanding" is accidental, either.
Have a Blessed holiday!
Well it is a bit unusual to pick up a conversation after 8 months, but I believe that the other part of my original post: 'I am afraid that a statement that this administration is not an improvement over that of X-42, makes your opinions not worth considering.' is still my position. Long time no see, have you been on vacation since December?
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."
I've said it here before, and I'll say it yet again: I think Rove is an idiot.
He failed to marshall the Conservative Christian forces due to HIS strategy of "gee, let's all be mamby-pamby and inclusive and hug anyone who isn't white and be kind and sweet and gentle and non-confrontative and moderate and avoid sounding like mean 'n' stuff or God forbid "conservative"".
That B.S. damned near cost his candidate the election, despite an incredibly fat treasure chest and what should have been a slam-dunk election.
WHEN are these morons going to learn????
Maybe they can depend on all the Illegal immigrant votes and all the bogus hispanic voters that are "secret" republicans.
I think you are confusing "Christian" with "bigot." Most Christians are not opposed to hugging non-whites, being kind and not sounding mean.
I guess that tells us a lot about you.
I guess that tells us a lot about you."
Yeah, well, let's discuss something called "context", and no, asshole, you know NOTHING about me..........except that I have no patience with idiots, as you've just seen.
Not even a good try. Stick to comic books.
My Christianity is my business, not yours, and if my language offends you, get over it. Be careful who you decide to attack so idiotically in the future with your lofty, snoot-in-the-air attempts at painting someone as some knuckle-dragging, racist redneck.
YOU can kiss my ass, son.
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You are getting more Christ-like as we speak. :]
And God knows no "real Christian" would be non-confrontive, sound non-mean and hug non-whites.
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