Reply #6: hope he gets his wish [View All]

[RainDog]

and I hope he wrests the nomination from the hawks. He's the talibornagain candidate and he's already made lots of commercials and speeches talking about altering the constitution to meet "god's standards," something the founders would have smacked down faster than Ann Coulter drops her skanky drawers.

The dems could and should use this to ask -- are we a democracy? and quote (with written words) founding statements about "no religious test" (with talibornagain republicans talking about their unwillingness to vote for anyone who's not them) and the Jefferson quote from the Danbury Bapt. church, and have pictures of democrats of all faiths together as a contrast.

I think, if Huckabee gets the nom, the northern repubs will HAVE TO cross party vote b/c they have SEEN what Bush's talibornagain pandering already got us... and if Huckabee gets the nom, dems should also show his remarks and Bush remarks to show that his issues are the same.

AND the Noah's Ark story at the Grand Canyon -- I mean, sure their are some dumb ass people who would be offended by noting that this isn't the right forum for such a story, but those who would be offended will not vote demo anyway, since they think we're = to satan.

It's a tricky issue to broach in the U.S., so I doubt dems will go for it, but Dean (kisseskisseskisses you smart and liberal man) could find a way to approach this... an "infomercial" in which Dean says the thing he got reamed for about Iraq, and then how he was telling the truth and was right, and let him talk about being right about religion as a matter of conscience, not state. He could talk about his protestant b.g. and his wife's Jewish b.g. to illustrate it's not right to inject one section of one belief (highlighting fundies aren't the only Christians, just the most vocal) to the exclusion of all others in matters of science, for instance. Science belongs in the classroom, religion belongs in church..

or show scores for U.S. kids in math and science and note the long, long fight with fundies about teaching evo. in the classroom, with clips of various judges who have ruled against this, and parents who aren't raging whatevers, but simply people who aren't stupid and don't want religion taught in a science class. Dean could highlight that he was a doctor and how imp. science is to discovering cures for disease, etc. and how the fundies waste money for schools, or whatever pushing this fight again and again and again when the issue has been settled in favor of evolution over and over again across the nation.