PELOSI: Democrats did not connect well enough with the American people. Certainly Democrats are faith-filled. Certainly we love our country, and we're very patriotic, but somehow or other that did not come across when 61% of those who are regular churchgoers voted Republican -- voted for President Bush, and when 22% of Americans gave its highest number to what determined their vote to issues relating to morality, more than the economy, more than terrorism. So I believe that we have it within us. I know that many of the people who are in politics on the Democratic side do so according to the -- the gospel of Matthew and indeed the Bible, but we don't demonstrate it clearly enough and faith is such an important part of the lives of most people in our country. They want to know that we identify with that.
RUSH: So far, so good. So far, so good -- except I can poke a lot of holes in this. She's aghast that so many people, regular churchgoers voted for Bush and not for Kerry. It's even worse than that. Kerry got a majority of people who never go to church. Now, this illustrates this divide profoundly, and so she's sitting there saying, "I wonder why we don't get this people." Hey, it's not that, Nancy. It's the people that vote in zilch church, no church are voting in majority for Kerry. But let's go to her next answer. Wolf says, "Well, what worries you most about the Republicans in control of both houses by even bigger margins, as well as the White House during the second term?"
PELOSI: I am very concerned about the radical right-wing agenda of President Bush and the Republicans in the Congress. They couldn't talk to the American people about creating jobs or expanding access to quality health care for more Americans or including many more people into education, higher education. They starved No Child Left behind. Thirty years of bipartisan environmental progress rolled back quietly and quickly. Concerns we have about the war in Iraq, they diverted the public's attention to issues of faith and family and country which are issues of grave concern to all of us. They're our highest priorities. They are our lives. But they did it in a way that eclipsed the issues that government really has to deal with. And when they took it to religion, I think they dangerously blurred the line between church and state, and I think that's a very major concern that I have with the president and the Republicans and Congress --
RUSH: See, now, it took a while to get to the meat of this bite here, but in the first bite, "Oh, we're religious. Oh, we believe in Matthew and God." It was all God. It was all Bible. "We don't understand. Why, we gotta make 'em do a better job of convincing people that, by gosh, we're Godly, too, and we people are religious, and our voters like God," and then in the second bite: "I think they dangerously blurred the line between church and state. It's a very major concern I have with the president and the Republican Congress when they took it to religion." They can't do it. She can say it in the first bite, but she doesn't mean it. They don't mean it. They can say it, and they can act all sorry when they get creamed for not saying it in the campaign, but they don't mean it. Do you realize what would happen to their base?
The Spectator article had this to say about Pelosi and Kerry:
Act on your faith, Democrats, wear religion on your sleeve -- that's now the message from Democrats who find it very "troubling" that we have a president who…acts on his faith. "I believe that we have it within us," exhorted Pelosi. "I know that many of the people who are in politics on the Democratic side do so according to the -- the gospel of Matthew and indeed the Bible, but we don't demonstrate it clearly enough and faith is such an important part of the lives of most people in our country. They want to know that we identify with that."
After spending the last few years trying to pry slabs of the Ten Commandments out of public courthouses, remove God from the pledge, deny public money to faith-based charities, and harass the Boy Scouts, it takes a lot of gall for these Democrats to give Kerry a hard time for insufficient religiosity. Has the ACLU been alerted to this new threat yet? Pelosi has given the green light to a new crop of theocratic Democrats.
Actually, Kerry did talk about God quite a bit in the campaign. The third line of his campaign biography stated that "John Kerry was raised in the Catholic faith and continues to be an active member of the Catholic Church." The problem wasn't that he failed to talk about God. The problem was that the American people didn't believe him. When he emerged from church on Ash Wednesday with ash on his head, the American people didn't see faith but phoniness. Picking up a bible on his visit to black churches didn't help him any more than picking up a rifle in Ohio.
The American people didn't respond to his religiosity, because they knew it was religiosity without religion. Democrats can talk and talk about God, but who's going to believe them when their agenda is to nullify the Ten Commandments? Since their rhetoric doesn't match reality, Americans rightly tune them out. "I have a commitment to faith" sounded from Kerry's mouth as convincing as "I have a commitment to national security." Democrats can't talk about faith, then endorse partial-birth abortion and expect the American people to take them seriously, any more than they should expect the American people to take them seriously when they talk about American sovereignty and endorse "global tests."
In his lunging attacks on Bush's religion, Kerry often said that "faith without deeds is dead." The American people ended up agreeing with him -- about his.
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