cicerone imposter wrote:It's not only the Iraq war; they are still trying to use abortion to gain votes.
Perhaps, but not as aggressively as they have in the past. The American people, including many on the Christian right, are waking up to the fact that they've been used by the GOP. David Kuo, who was part of Bush's faith-based initiatives, has been making the rounds, voicing his disillusionment with the Bush administration and questioning their sincerity. Now we have the current Republican front-runner clarifying his position for a woman's right to choose.
I caught an episode of Larry King last night, and David Kuo was on with a few other religious leaders plus David Gergen, and there is a general agreement that religion in this election may not play as big of a role as it has in years past, especially for the GOP. Their base is shrinking because many fundamentalist Christians have woken up from their Bush nightmare. And we've seen plenty of images of fundamentalist Christians making complete fools out of themselves. The Westborough Baptist Church, whose congregation (mostly family) protested the funerals of soldiers who got killed in Iraq, have given Christians a bad name. James Dobson, Pat Robertson, and the now late Jerry Falwell, may be seeing their profit margins shrink, no doubt due to their politicizing of religion for the sake of the GOP.
The Republican party today is nothing like it was in it's heyday when the neocons were riding a high tidal wave of unbridled political power, and the unraveling continues unabated.
