Why the Democrats Lost - Part 2
Someone calling herself "A Very Sad American" has an open letter to the Democrats: How You Could Have Had My Vote:
Lastly, and I hope this doesn't hurt anyone feelings, because my objective is to make you think, not emote: I don't think you really want my vote. I actively sought out your perspective. I tuned in regularly, for months, to your biggest media project, your serious effort to get your message out: Air America Radio. I listened all day on Good Friday as host after host mocked people like me for believing in Jesus's life, death, and resurrection. I listened as Janeane Garofalo, who was one of my favorite comedians for years, expressed hatred and disgust for Bush voters so vile that I ended my live stream feeling assaulted, as if I'd been vomited on. I listened the night that Mike Malloy told a young Republican to hang up the phone and go open a vein. I listened to pure, unadulterated venom that was so intense I sometimes cut the stream and cried. Tonight, your spokespeople on AAR have been calling people like me "snake-handling evangelicals," and that was about the kindest thing I heard. Um…y'all? I've lived in the South my entire life and have never met a single snake-handler.
Neither have I. So, here is a voter who is perhaps a bit left of center and who describes herself as "not extremely religious". However, the Democrats managed to alienate her so much that she reluctantly voted for Bush. As always, RTWT. (Link via Twisted Spinster.)
Incidentally, the part I've excerpted makes note of the open hostility that many on the left have towards people of faith. Now, I realize that there are orthodox, serious Christians who are not at all politically conservative. I'm curious as to how left-leaning Christians feel about their political allies having such disdain for their deeply held beliefs.
Then, there's the Michael Moore factor. I remember Hugh Hewitt predicting that Moore would be to the Dems this year what Pat Buchanan was to the GOP in 1992. It looks like Jeff Jarvis, who supported Kerry, would agree with that. (Via Joe Gandelman posting at Dean's World.)
Posted by Susan B. at 10:05 PM to Politics
Susan, that animosity of the left for the right is so strong. I commented recently on my experience as a Unitarian Universalist. The animosity was so strong it drove me away, even before I chose to become a Christian. I couldn't understand how a group could worship 'tolerance' and be so hateful.