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RUSH: I\u2019ve got a story here in the stack about this, folks, a little monologue going along with it that I\u2019ve gotta find here on the basis of this. Hang on here with me, \u2019cause it\u2019s somewhere in here. It\u2019s not a big stack today. It\u2019s about the Democrats — here it is. I have found the story. It\u2019s classic. It\u2019s by Tiffany Stanley at the New Republic. You know, after the 2002 midterms, Wellstone memorial and all that, exit polls were stunned to learn that values voters were the — and the Democrats were stunned, ‘Well, yeah, we gotta work on our appeal to the values voters,\u2019 which lasted about two weeks. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the piece: ‘Things Fall Apart — How Democrats gave up on religious voters. When Barack Obama burst onto the national scene at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, he represented … the shining hope for the religious left. Here was a liberal politician who was not afraid of the language of faith, who just might reclaim territory that the Democratic Party had, willingly or not, ceded to Republicans. Red America did not own religion, Obama declared: ‘We worship an awesome God in the blue states.” He\u2019s talking about himself. ‘Between 2004 and 2007, when Obama announced his candidacy for president, he became possibly the most prominent Democratic politician who was comfortable speaking about religion — a liberal who gave the impression that his religiosity was heartfelt, genuine, and important to his politics.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, the point here is that, see, he gave the impression. With Democrats it\u2019s always about making the impression, because it\u2019s really not something that is — well, it\u2019s not in their heart. Reverend Wright took religion away from Obama\u2019s campaign, if I recall. People found out who Obama\u2019s pastor was, Obama had to take religion and get outta there. Obama only talked about religion once during the campaign. That was on the eve of the South Carolina primaries. After that he never brought it up again. But here\u2019s the point. This is a long piece. I don\u2019t have time to read even a lot of excerpts to you, but you will understand the commentary here because the commentary I put together derives from reading the piece. It is instructive on so many things that Democrats do and think. And this is one of these pieces that proves to me that, particularly in matters of religion, liberals are from Mars and conservatives are from Venus. There\u2019s nothing about this woman\u2019s piece that makes any sense to me. It is sad in a way. The writer, Tiffany here, writing about the latest reason the Democrats are losers, describes how the Democrats have lost the religious voter since Obama\u2019s ordination due to their lack of outreach to them. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same thing back during the 2002 midterms with the values voters. The Democrats, ‘Wow, you know, we\u2019re not reaching out the right ways,\u2019 so they have to go out and find George Lakoff (rhymes with), to tell them how to reach out, what words to use. And as always, the liberals and the Democrats think that they\u2019re just using the wrong words. They think that we\u2019re just not hearing what they\u2019re saying, that we just don\u2019t get it \u2019cause we\u2019re a little thick in the head. So they just need to do some more summits, have some more forums, initiatives, and, of course, ask for more tax money to spend to reach us on matters of religion so that we would understand them. Meanwhile, while they think it\u2019s a lack of outreach or possibly a problem with communication, it\u2019s clearly obvious to all of us that we\u2019re not listening to \u2019em because we\u2019re seeing what they do. We don\u2019t have to hear what they say. In fact, listening to what they say only confuses things. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what we see them do. Look, the left in the UK and Canada, same as the left here. We see them, as in this story from the UK: ‘Christmas Trees ‘Make Non-Christians Feel Excluded\u2019.\u2019 Okay, what do we do? Get rid of Christians and get rid of their trees. Well, I don\u2019t know what kind of outreach you Democrats think is gonna help us overcome the way we see that, but it\u2019s pretty obvious. We see the Democrat Party routinely, excitedly voting for and promoting the killing of babies, abortion. I don\u2019t care what kinda outreach you come up with, there\u2019s nothing that\u2019s gonna be able to make us think that that\u2019s not what it is. We see you trying to gut the military, marriages and churches, over to a homosexual political agenda. We have no problem with who loves who. Remember, we conservatives object to political things. We object to liberals, not individuals in this case, and so there\u2019s obviously here an effort to give the military and marriage and church over to a leftist political agenda, which is hidden inside the gay political agenda. And not all gays are part of that. It\u2019s not a blanket assumption. <\/p>\n

We see the Democrats openly supporting a mosque at Ground Zero. We see Democrats repeatedly supporting efforts to get rid of any public display of Christmas or Easter in our communities and in schools. We see the Democrat Party and the left try to destroy things based on or rooted in God, like the Boy Scouts. We see religious people in this country mocked by the lead Democrat of the day, Obama, as bitter clingers. Now, all of this, I don\u2019t know what kinda outreach, Tiffany, you Democrats think is gonna overcome these actions, because these actions speak louder than all of your words. At every turn we see Democrats racing to replace God with government. The Democrats want government to be God. We see Democrats replacing husbands and fathers with government. We see this. This has been going on since the sixties. Generally, conservative Christians believe in smaller government. We believe that government\u2019s not the highest power. Government is fallible. The left doesn\u2019t think that. Democrats don\u2019t think that. Government is infallible. Their pope, their Vatican, is government. <\/p>\n

Liberals know that government is fallible, but they have no higher power to turn to so all their faith is placed in government. And for all their faith to be placed in government there isn\u2019t room for faith to be placed anywhere else. So as such, to the Democrats everything is some sort of sick political game. Nothing\u2019s real, especially faith in God. The only thing that\u2019s real is what Democrats can make us believe about them, and we have to be told, don\u2019t believe what you see. No, no. Don\u2019t believe what you see. You listen to what we\u2019re telling you. We\u2019re gonna be working on our outreach, and we\u2019re gonna come up with better messaging, and we\u2019re gonna show you why it\u2019s dangerous for you to dissociate us from religion or God. But faith in God panics them. Faith in God angers them. They get irritated. They make fun of people who go to church, particularly in the south, and this is what liberals never have or never will understand. <\/p>\n

Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, it\u2019s real to people who believe it. Faith is real. It\u2019s what sustains them. The Word of God to people is real, it means something, gives structure, comfort, security, orderliness, consolation, reassurance. It attempts to answer the questions or at least to provide faith that there are answers to questions that there really aren\u2019t answers to on this earth. Democrats treat the Bible like the Constitution. It\u2019s a set of rules and guidelines that are flexible. When you tell Catholics that it\u2019s up to the church to change, to adapt to your latest fall from grace, I don\u2019t care what kinda message you come up with, outreach or what have you, you\u2019re never gonna be able to convince people that you have this same degree of faith and religious belief to the people you\u2019re trying to reach. You only have to follow these rules and guidelines, as in the Constitution, when it suits you, but the Second Amendment? It may as well not be there \u2019cause it doesn\u2019t make any sense, you don\u2019t like it. You can\u2019t rewrite the Bible, but you\u2019re trying, just like you rewrite the Constitution with your judges. <\/p>\n

This piece, ‘Things Fall Apart — How Democrats gave up on religious voters,\u2019 how Democrats have problems with religion, and not one mention of Reverend Wright in this piece. That alone tells me that it\u2019s just a game to them. The left, ‘Religious people don\u2019t really understand that we love \u2019em and we believe what they do, so we gotta come up with a new message, make \u2019em think that we\u2019re –‘ well that isn\u2019t gonna cut it if your behavior is not similar or in line. So when you start saying, ‘Ah, you know what? Christmas trees, it just makes non-Christians lose self-esteem and you gotta get rid of the Christmas tree in order to spare people\u2019s feelings.\u2019 Don\u2019t even try to come up with a message or outreach, \u2019cause nothing can overcome that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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