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."
Wrong. Bush made the decision on his own after input from nearly everyone. No one assisted him in his decision.
Non voters, those who refuse to do their moral and civic duty by participating in the political process, have been known to people since the dawn of democratic government. Naturally the Greeks had a word for it. That word was 'idiot'. The other connotations of that word have been added over the years, because of their obvious association with non-voters.
Thank you, Osama, I guess you have a good wireless internet connection in your cave.
If you really think that the volunteer citizens who run politics in this country at a level lower than the presidential concern themselves with winning the votes of people who are clearly looking for a reason not to vote for your candidates, I am sure that you have not been a member of too many party organizations.
The first constituency it takes very seriously.
The second constituency is little more than a necessary inconvenience. Without it, of course, Republicans couldn't get elected; so they have to PRETEND to take these people [us] seriously.
But they do little more than throw crumbs from the table to Prolifers-- for instance, We are appeased by symbolic actions and by a minor victory here and there. But even though they control the House and the White House and nearly control the Senate, they can't make any headway on defunding Planned Parenthood. That really ticks me off.
Unless the war keeps going until November 2002 when patriotic fervor cools down, voters will notice that the GOP has spent the last two years doing little domestically, And then, with the liberals and Dems in control of Congress, the diet of crumbs that the prolife people have been subsisting on will be transformed into a diet of absolute starvation.
I am tired of inaction on pro-life issues and I'm tired of ceding ground.
The Republicans, despite all their prolife talk, are, playing prolifers for suckers.
Did you miss the tape today?
Took the words right out of my mouth!
Second, the comment he was making was that there had been an erosion in the Republican party that has increased the support for abortion. But this poll shows that for the last 26 years, the numbers have remained essentially steady - no big worrisome increase.
Interesting distinction. Might have something to do with the issue.
Just curious - where are you losing ground?
Actual number of abortions peaked in 1990 and have dropped steadily since.
Legally, Roe v. Wade has been cut back significantly (in 1993 I beleive). The number of anti-abortion - pro abortion judges have remained fairly constant on the appellate courts.
Assuming that abortion is never going to be made illegal in our lifetime, where is ground being ceded?
If you were an opponent of Gore, and would have voted for Bush if you were going to vote for anyone then that is 1 less vote for Bush. I am not speaking of you necessarily, but the polling shows that most of the stay at homes were in this category.
EXACTAMUNDO! Bush was the ONLY choice for Christians.
Alan Keyes is a good man who got so full of himself that he forgot that ALL (repeat after me, all) politics is compromise and the art of the possible.
Of course, you do have a couple of people who think that there is no compromise in politics. One of them is in the cave right now in Tora Bora.
I am afraid that a statement that this administration is not an improvement over that of X-42, makes your opinions not worth considering. And since you don't vote, you don't count.
God will tell you whom to vote for, and no matter what tha person's "stated" position is, God will use people to accomplish his ends. Heck, how do you know the person won't have a religious conversion the minute he gets into office? God knows that, though.
Do you understand the concepts of "filibuster" and "cloture?"
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