Posted by
Augsal on Sunday, July 29, 2007 6:40:51 PM
I have experienced something very disturbing in the last two weeks. Twice I have spoken with people who I would consider conservative Christians, one an Evangelical Protestant and the other a Roman Catholic. I know each personally and have always considered them to be conservative, pro-life men but I have noticed a disturbing phenomenon. They both have been able to disconnect their personal beliefs from their political beliefs. The Evangelical Christian was trying to convince me why Hillary Clinton should be considered seriously for the Presidency. He simply recited a recent quote where she said that "abortion should be made available, safe and most importantly rare." This, statement my friend thought was a sign of a radical change in her pro-abortion beliefs. He completely ignored her voting record on abortion which has been never to restrict abortion ever, even the practice of partial-birth abortion. This "Christian" was deadly serious and thought I was biased, prejudiced and just a hot-headed extremist conservative when I tried to prove him wrong. What is going on here?
My other encounter was with a fellow Catholic who is in the business of real estate and is going through the doldrums as he put it with the current housing market. He mentioned to me that President Bush was the "lamest Lame duck president he has ever seen" and went on to blame him for the current real estate problems. I said that this country is at war and he can't really be blamed for the housing crash. His answer: "What war? Has this country declared war?" This remark almost sent me through the roof but Mass was about to start and I told him we will finish this later. Never caught up with him.
But in both these instances, what I was hearing was the "Leftist Media" and its daily pablum of anti-Bush, anti-war propaganda. If you have noticed that the Media has been portraying Hillary as to the right of Sen.Obama. Always to the right of her opponents. The other spiel is the notion that we are not at war. Sounds a lot like the Democrat leadership which is showcased every night on the 3 major network newscasts. The kool-aid is being dispensed and it is being consumed!!!!
The other problem I see hear is that the Republican Party is wasting a good opporunity to take control of the election and nail the leftwing Dems on their record of anti-American activity in their hindrance and harrassment of this administration to prosecute this war to victory. The Democrats have continually at every opporunity sabotaged the war effort even in the face of all reports stating the "Surge" in Iraq is successful. Failure in Iraq cannot be an option if we value our freedom and security in this great country o ours. I do blame the President for his inability to prosecute this war at home. He has been a great disappointment to me in many ways but I still cringe at the thought of Sen. Kerry as our Commander in Chief.