Reply #244: Jean Carnahan (FORMER Senator from Missouri) [View All]

[ikojo]

ran as a Me2 Democrat...she supported the unprovoked war on Iraq as well as the PATRIOT Act....

When she ran as a Me2 Dem in a non presidential election (when turnout is lower and generally the incumbent stands a better chance) against a real Republican, James (no)Talent, in 2002, she LOST....

LOST...

Running as Republican lite LOSES elections.

The right-wing does not have a lock nor does it define what is "faith based." It is to the shame of Democrats and liberals that people look to the right when defining what is "faith based" and it does nothing but give them more power.

There are "faith based" people within the Democratic party and on the left. Ever hear of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism? It's faith based (Jewish so it may not count among the folks Hillary and the DLC are pandering to).

http://rac.org/index.cfm?

How about Jim Wallis, he's a Christian and has written a book called God's Politics...here is a blurb...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060558288/qid=1106314565/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/102-8453569-1605765

God's Politics offers a clarion call to make both our religious communities and our government more accountable to key values of the prophetic religious tradition -- that is, make them pro-justice, pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-equality, pro-consistent ethic of life (beyond single issue voting), and pro-family (without making scapegoats of single mothers or gays and lesbians). Our biblical faith and religious traditions simply do not allow us as a nation to continue to ignore the poor and marginalized, deny racial justice, tolerate the ravages of war, or turn away from the human rights of those made in the image of God. These are the values of love and justice, reconciliation, and community that Jesus taught and that are at the core of what many of us believe, Christian or not. In the tradition of prophets such as Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day, and Desmond Tutu, Wallis inspires us to hold our political leaders and policies accountable by integrating our deepest moral convictions into our nation's public life.