A Party on its Knees

The American Spectator ^ | 11-5-04 | George Neumayr

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A Party on Its Knees

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Published 11/5/2004 1:08:09 AM

Normally Democrats urge their candidates to expunge God and morality from politics. Even the word morality grates on them. It is a far too judgment-laden term for their taste. How about the insipid term "ethics"? Okay, if you must -- goes the attitude -- but don't use the loaded term "morality." Yet what are we now hearing from the Mike Barnicles and Nancy Pelosis? That Kerry didn't talk about God enough. That he failed to satisfy the public's hunger for spirituality and morality. Like children who recently learned a new phrase, liberals are giving Kerry a post-mortem drubbing for not speaking to the "moral values" of America. Tina Brown, a high-brow vulgarian who has bragged about tarting up the New Yorker, turned prim in Thursday's Washington Post. "Who among us," she wrote, "is not sick and tired of hearing the Cialis ad discuss four-hour erections while we're sitting there trying to watch TV with the kids?" Brown related that she chats with other moms about "how much we worry and strategize and push back against the tsunami of pop culture sleaze that seeps into our kids' psyches." Who knew Democrats had such pious longings? Who knew sexual, let's-not-repress-the-children liberationists had such distaste for Cialis ads? Tina Brown even dropped the pom-poms for Anthony Lewis's wife, Margaret Marshall, the Massachusetts Chief justice who, as Brown put it, "forced her state to authorize gay marriage." Forced? Boy, that's a very right-wing way of putting it. Usually the left says "freed." Karl Rove should give her a "big bouquet," said a piqued Brown. Got that, Marshall? Don't ever turn up the heat so fast that the frogs jump out again. Remember, duping the American people into avant-garde morality takes time and finesse and you lack it. No more invites to Tina Brown's parties for you. Nancy Pelosi's secularism also took a rare day off after Kerry lost. Now she, too, longs for a little more old-fashioned religion in the public square. She is telling fellow Democrats to be more conspicuous about their faith. "Democrats did not connect well enough with the American people," she told CNN. "Certainly Democrats are faith-filled. Certainly we love our country, and we're very patriotic, but somehow or other that did not come across when 61% of those who are regular churchgoers voted Republican -- voted for President Bush, and when 22% of Americans gave its highest number to what determined their vote to issues relating to morality, more than the economy, more than terrorism." Act on your faith, Democrats, wear religion on your sleeve -- that's now the message from Democrats who find it very "troubling" that we have a president who…acts on his faith. "I believe that we have it within us," exhorted Pelosi. "I know that many of the people who are in politics on the Democratic side do so according to the -- the gospel of Matthew and indeed the Bible, but we don't demonstrate it clearly enough and faith is such an important part of the lives of most people in our country. They want to know that we identify with that." After spending the last few years trying to pry slabs of the Ten Commandments out of public courthouses, remove God from the pledge, deny public money to faith-based charities, and harass the Boy Scouts, it takes a lot of gall for these Democrats to give Kerry a hard time for insufficient religiosity. Has the ACLU been alerted to this new threat yet? Pelosi has given the green light to a new crop of theocratic Democrats. Actually, Kerry did talk about God quite a bit in the campaign. The third line of his campaign biography stated that "John Kerry was raised in the Catholic faith and continues to be an active member of the Catholic Church." The problem wasn't that he failed to talk about God. The problem was that the American people didn't believe him. When he emerged from church on Ash Wednesday with ash on his head, the American people didn't see faith but phoniness. Picking up a bible on his visit to black churches didn't help him any more than picking up a rifle in Ohio. The American people didn't respond to his religiosity, because they knew it was religiosity without religion. Democrats can talk and talk about God, but who's going to believe them when their agenda is to nullify the Ten Commandments? Since their rhetoric doesn't match reality, Americans rightly tune them out. "I have a commitment to faith" sounded from Kerry's mouth as convincing as "I have a commitment to national security." Democrats can't talk about faith, then endorse partial-birth abortion and expect the American people to take them seriously, any more than they should expect the American people to take them seriously when they talk about American sovereignty and endorse "global tests." In his lunging attacks on Bush's religion, Kerry often said that "faith without deeds is dead." The American people ended up agreeing with him -- about his. George Neumayr is executive editor of The American Spectator.

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[Revolting cat!]

"A Party on it is knees"? What does that mean?

[Founding Father]

I thought this was a Monica and Bill story.

[WoodstockCat]

"I know that many of the people who are in politics on the Democratic side do so according to the -- the gospel of Matthew and indeed the Bible, but we don't demonstrate it clearly enough and faith is such an important part of the lives of most people in our country. They want to know that we identify with that."

What the Dems do not and will not understand is that picking pet verses from the Bible and quoting them as political justification is NOT living your faith.

[Brilliant]

What's going to happen is this: The wisest leaders of the Dem Party are going to try to take it to the center. Some of the Dems will have a big problem with that. They will try to prevent it, and that will set up a battle from within. If the moderates win, then the liberals will split off and start their own ultra liberal party. If the liberals win, then the moderates will become Republicans. Either way, the party is in big trouble.

[MHGinTN]

Just where sinkEmperor wants them!

[Rocko]

Perhaps the Democratic Party is sitting on Cousin It's lap.

[hope]

It's going to be amusing watching them attempt to play the religion card in the years to come. Bill Clinton is probably the only one to get it...And that's because he was able to pull off his faith charade to get him enough votes. We cannot allow another democrat to do that.

[hope]

exactly!

[GSlob]

"When [Kerry] emerged from church on Ash Wednesday with ash on his head, the American people didn't see faith but phoniness."
Why phoniness? Someone extinguished a cigarette or a cigar on him, and the question was "who?" If anything, it whetted the interest in his candidacy.

[sweetiepiezer]

Does this mean they are praying?

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

"A Party on it is knees"? What does that mean?

LOL! I saw that and wondered if I should make a comment. The first thing I did was check to see if the American Spectator made that mistake. There's something about a professional publication making grammatical errors that really gets to me...

My only real concern is that it messes up a search for the article if someone puts in the correct spelling.

[gusopol3]

since prognosticators that believe economics alone determine elections, and they all believed that economic state of country favored Bush, then it was actually the Democratic vote that was culturally determined--and it is Anti-Christian. They will only alienate their base by embracing religion, so they are between a rock and a hard place.

[Fiddlstix]

"A Party on it is knees"? What does that mean?

Monica is back.

[acapesket]

YOU, Sir have the best line of the night, Barr none..!!

[Lancey Howard]

Already posted here.

But George is so good, I'm glad to see it posted again.

[eggman]

Yet what are we now hearing from the Mike Barnicles and Nancy Pelosis? That Kerry didn't talk about God enough. That he failed to satisfy the public's hunger for spirituality and morality.

More likely he made the public nauseous with his transparent religiosity. What African-American church did John Kerry visit this fine Sunday morning?

[TeemuSan]

"A Party on it is knees"? What does that mean?

I believe they are praying that someday they'll be relevant again. Boy, Zell Miller really hit the nail on the head... talk about a national party no more.

[incubus]

JACKSON/SHARPTON '08

[Woogit]

They just don't understand! Christianity IS NOT a religion!!! It is a RELATIONSHIP, an intimate and loving relationship with God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit! It is the love of God and the Holy Spirit with in that restrains us and keeps us from going into the immoral slime pit. They can talk the talk and sit the butts on a pew every Sunday, but until they get touched by God...they will be just as big of losers as they are now. That won't stop them. They aren't trying to change, they're just trying to figure out how best to fool the people.