Spin-Doctor My Guilt Trip
I made the assertion a few days ago that I was glad that Bush won, but dissapointed in what it took to drive evangelicals to the polls to get Bush elected.
I suppose there's something to the fact that as soon as Bush won, I immediately felt guilty. Glad he won, but had the nagging desire to quickly find some flaw in the entire event. That probably says more about my psychology and less about actual events.
In fact, Nick and David Brooks feel the same way (thanks to Nick for pointing out the article). Brooks asserts that a homophobic, red America didn't elect Bush because the statistics don't exist to support that theory.
At this point in the entire discussion I get a headache. On one hand its completely plausible to me that the left-leaning fundamentalist-liberal media would immediately find a moral-high ground excuse in which to attribute their loss in the election, and on the other hand it still seems likely to me that Karl Rove would and did use the gay-marriage issue to drive the right to the polls: it fits with his MO.
So what do I think? Not a whole lot anymore. I think I'll just stick with my "the Church in general has an un-Christian way of dealing with the homosexual community." There, how's that for a cop-out?
Josiah Q. Roe | By Josiah Roe | 11:44 AM
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I look forward to reading the article. Is he saying, though, that he doubts the ban brought evangelicals to the polls in those 11 states? My understanding is that evangelical vote was down considerably in 2000, and that it increased this year. All that the stategy needed to do to succeed was to increase voter registation and voting in a few key states, like Ohio, and it was a successful strategy.
I don't see why this makes Rove a bad guy, though. In my mind, even though I voted against the ban in Georgia, the idea that the Reps used this to get their constituents to the polls seems as though the Reps are responding strongly to their base. And, it strikes me as incredibly ingenius tactic.
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Posted by: JQ's dad at November 12, 2004 02:50 PM
whoever authors that blog needs to get a life. that person is either really bored or mentally/spirtually twisted, most likely both.
Posted by: JosiahQ at November 12, 2004 02:58 PM
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