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."
"Controlled" means majority, except in the Senate where it means 3/5ths. Else is just "Advantage", and that assumes that you don't have a contingent of xINOs...of which there are clearly at least 6.
He's the guy who finished second to Clarence Thomas in 1991.
We can beat them, but it will take time.
You think W is a liberal. I think he's a conservative that realizes the limits of his own power as well as just how steeped in leftist PC belief this country really is. IF he gets a second term and IF we give him a conservative Congress and Senate ... great things will transpire. But only if WE want them to. We have a man in the White House that is ammenable to our causes and he listens. Make your voice heard.
It cannot be more sacred than the trust obligation felt by the occupant, and some have a remarkably cavalier attitude toward that trust. Some, as in "anyone who doesn't vote against democratic presidential candidates in general and Clintons in particular."
I am much more Conservative than Bush, and probably more conservative than many of the other freepers here. I think the Puritans had the right idea when it comes to government.
Bush was not my first choice, but I did vote for him. I would have much rather had Howard Phillips in office, but I am not stupid. Throwing your vote away is absolutely wrong. We live in a 2 party country, and it will always be that way, no matter how much the Greens, Liberaltarians, Reforms and Constitution Party want to change that. It is much better to influence the Republican Party from the inside than to cost it votes and allow people like Clintoon and Gore to get elected.
Christians who don't vote should never be crying about the increasingly decadent society that we see around us. It is they who helped contribute to it. I have read that many Christians didn't vote in 1996 and allowed Clintoon another term. Many more voted for Perot in 1992 and Allowed the murderer to get elected in the first place. Those same Christians were some of the ones who screamed the loudest about Clintoon.
When you vote you sometimes have to choose between the better of the 2 candidates, rather than the best one on the ballot. Those Pat Buchanan and Howard Phillips votes would have helped G.W. and not almost cost us another 4 years of a clintoon clone.
The Liberaltarians and Greens cost democrats votes, but I honestly don't care about them. By all means, let the dope smoking, free love, crowd chip away that the demonrat vote. :)
Read my profile you flaming genius.
Incidentally, GW received over 70% of his base Republican vote in Fla. in 65 out of 67 counties.(^:
In the police 'good cop, bad cop' routine, the police arrange with each other to do it. That is they 'conspire' or plan for this sort of investigative technique. Therefore your statement implies a conspiracy on the part of the two parties to advance this supposed common agenda. If you did not mean to imply this, please make that clear. If you did mean to imply this, please give evidence of this conspiracy.
The political facts of the last 45 years do not bear you out.
Excellent point lormand. You have indeed shown where those who were neutral in the Gore Bush contest are going.
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