Q. How do you fix the Democrats' image with religious voters?
"I don't have to strain to establish a (religious) connection. All I need to do is talk about where I came from and where I am now. And there are millions like me. I often say in a roomful of Democrats, `What made you a Democrat? What made you politically active?' It often has to do with religious and moral convictions."
Q. But there's been a hesitancy among Democrats to talk about that.
"In this (recent gubernatorial) campaign in Virginia, (winning Democrat) Tim Kaine found a way. It wasn't a matter of his advisers telling him, `Go out and talk about religion.' Tim Kaine happens to have a story about his mission work in Honduras, and how it changed his life. So he talked about that. We all have our own stories. Especially in the South. I always quote (evangelical writer) Jim Wallis, who said, `Where would we be if Martin Luther King had kept his faith to himself?' We all need to ask ourselves that question."
Democrats = Marxists = Christian
That is an oxymoron and does not compute.