| richardhutnik said: It is, at best, a token effort to throw support at it. It isn't in the same league as what Rove did to push to organize evangelical churches to support GW Bush's reelection efforts. It is just words, not a strategic targeting, like Rick Perry saying the GOP is the party of life, in response to an angry mob at a GOP debate. You do have defaults, like black churches, but the evangelical wasn't really targeted in a meaningful way. Reminded of a bit of politics that John Kerry did by dropping the Dick Cheney's daugher is a lesbian in a debate. Just marginal stuff done in passing to say they tried. THis article I posted prior goes into what has happened. Reason why is there had been a lack of a wedge issue they could use: http://www.worldmag.com/articles/18283
For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home. Now they've found it, and are thrusting at the Social Darwinist/Ayn Rand underbelly of American conservatism. First, a bit of recent history: Democrats have not gained much white evangelical support on healthcare and environmentalism. In 2008 they successfully used guilt over segregation to elect the first African-American president, but that may not work again as concern over Obamanomics trumps the ghosts of generations past.
So, sorry if I will beleive Olasky over you on this issue. And before you type impulsively here, it is best you find out who Olasky is and why I quote him. |
That's rather arrogant of you. To be very frank, I probably know a lot more about Marvin Olasky than you do. Also, it was Edwards, not Kerry, who debated Dick Cheney. (VP candidates debate each other, wot.)
Again, you're just defining it down to your liking (black churches don't count for some reason, neither does the Catholic left nor very liberal churches like Episcopalians) and then accusing Democrats of being insincere in their religious pitches. I suppose if you only count the angry frothing mob (real or imagined) of Southern Baptists or those weird Mormons with their funny magic underwear, then yes, I guess Republicans do have something approaching a monopoly on bringing religion into politics. But that has precious little to do with reality.
