Michael Moore v. Values Voters
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
If you’re a values voter like me, you’re still rejoicing about last month’s re-election of President George W. Bush.
But, if you don’t embrace a Biblical worldview, you’re no doubt as upset as propagandist Michael Moore that John Kerry lost. Moore describes Bush as “a radical Christian who decided the world was made up of the forces of good and evil.”
Listen here, Mikey boy! All Christians understand that the world is, in fact, made up of the forces of good and evil. This isn’t something President Bush concocted one day in the Oval Office between appointments, you know! It’s not radical. It’s not a fringe belief. It’s what defines a Christian.
Ephesians 6:12 says, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
That’s why Paul instructs Christ’s followers to “put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.” Take A Stand. Sounds like a good name for a radio talk show, doesn’t it?
Michael Moore goes on to describe voters like you and I as “self-righteous, gun-totin’, military-lovin’, sister-marryin’, abortion-hatin’, gay-loathin’, foreigner-despisin’, non-passport-ownin’ red necks.”
Well, two out of nine isn’t exactly accurate now, is it?
Yes Mr. Moore, I am deeply grateful for the sacrifice that our military continues to make for the cause of freedom. One honorable man in the Army comes to mind. His name is John Byron Trotter, a Blanco High School graduate and son of my friend Clayton Trotter at the Justice Foundation here in the Alamo City.
After having pulled the mangled bodies out from the World Trade Center rubble, Byron was so inspired to right the wrong of 9/11 that he actually re-enlisted. He put himself in harm’s way for all of us, including you Michael. He made the ultimate sacrifice and gave his life on November 9th outside Fallujah, Iraq in hand-to-hand combat.
And yes, I do hate the murder of innocent babies in the womb. Michael, I recommend that you use some of your profits from Fahrenheit 9/11 and purchase a copy of
The Silent Scream, a video narrated by former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson. It provides irrefutable evidence of the humanity of the unborn baby and Dr. Nathanson uses an ultra-sound screen to narrate what happens during a first trimester abortion. After founding the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws in the 1960’s, he became the director of the largest abortion mill in the western world, in New York City, where he oversaw 60,000 abortions. In fact, Dr. Nathanson even admitted to aborting one of his own children in his book The Hand of God before he accepted Christ as his savior in 1979 and stopped killing babies.
If you’d like to see the video first-hand on your computer, go to http://www.silentscream.org/video1.htm.
But Michael Moore is not the only one who is horrified over the re-election of President Bush.
• Eli Pariser, the head of MoveOn.org funded almost exclusively by Bush-hater George Soros, wrote, “We’ll admit to being heartbroken by the outcome of yesterday’s election. It’s a dark day.”
• New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd made a bizarre comment on The Chris Matthews Show the Sunday following the election. She said, “The Rapture is coming,” and “you and I are going up,” but “all these hypocritical conservatives” who want to tell everyone what to do are not. Even Matthews, a proud liberal and former speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter, seemed startled by her remark and quickly changed the subject.
• Carolyn Parrish, a Canadian politician, said that in re-electing President Bush, American voters showed that they are “completely out of step with most of the free world…I guess it’s a reflection of the profound psychological damage of 9/11.”
We certainly know where the media stood.
• Andy Rooney of CBS’ 60 Minutes summarized their view beautifully, saying “I know that a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush.”
But it gets worse.
• In one online poll conducted by the web site Democratic Underground, 72 percent were convinced that Bush’s victory was actually worse than the 9/11 attacks themselves. Really? Some of these people in the blue states are one taco short of a full combo meal. We all know by now that Bush won with a three and half million vote margin because of the “values” voters. Out of the four issues which motivated people to go to the polls – the economy, moral values, terrorism, the war in Iraq – values was the most important. In fact, the values voter picked Bush by 79% over Senator John Kerry. Regular churchgoers chose Bush by a 2-1 margin. And a majority of Catholics voted for Bush this time instead of Gore four years ago.
The records of Bush and Kerry could not have been more pronounced in their differences on values. President Bush signed into law a ban on the gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure while Senator Kerry, to his utter shame, voted six times AGAINST the ban. President Bush supports a Federal Marriage Amendment which would define marriage between one man and one woman while the John-John Liberal Dynamic Duo were missing in action when it went to the Senate floor for a vote.
I got a chuckle out from Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader, who simply concluded that the Democrats didn’t have to do any soul-searching at all. “It may be about how we can educate the American people more clearly on the differences between the Democrats and Republicans.”
Nancy, if the people were any better educated about the differences between the Democrats and Republicans they would have fired you, Ted Kennedy and homosexual-escort-service-running Congressman Barney Franks along with the Chief Obstructionist Democratic Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota. Maybe Nancy needs to heed the advice of a retiring fellow Democrat, albeit a very conservative one, by the name of Zell Miller of Georgia.
In a column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Senator Miller wrote: “Secular socialism, heavy taxes, big spending, weak defense, limitless lawsuits and heavy regulation — that pack of beagles hasn’t caught a rabbit in the South or Midwest in years. The most recent failed nominee for president stands as proof that the national Democratic Party will continue to dwindle.”
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., in his attempt to grapple with the election results, suggested that “We Democrats better think long and hard about what happened…and how our party is going to connect with the hopes and aspirations of the people.”
Senator Dodd, let me tell you about the hopes and aspirations of the people. We hope that one day the unborn children in the womb will be protected. We aspire to a day when the institution of marriage created by God Himself in the Garden of Eden is protected from the assault of the radical homosexual activists.
After all, despite the liberal lamestream media’s efforts to the contrary, the American people voted in favor of marriage protection amendments in 11 states with overwhelming majorities ranging from 57% in liberal Oregon to 88% in Mississippi.
Bob Knight, director of the Culture and family Institute, rightly pointed out that “The marriage issue was the great iceberg in this election. Most people saw only the tip and didn’t realize the great mass was affecting races all over the country, right up to the presidential contest.”
Frankly, I was disturbed that President Bush did not campaign openly on the very moral values differences between himself and Senator John Kerry. That distinction was primarily articulated below the radar screen in the Christian community.
Karl Rove, the Bush campaign “architect,” is a moderate who appeared to have pushed President Bush to come out in favor of virtual homosexual marriage in the form of civil unions on ABC’s Good Morning America just days before the election.
I’m convinced that Bush’s election victory margin would have been much bigger had he actually campaigned aggressively on the values question in addition to talking about the war on terror and Kerry’s flip flops. To his credit, Leon Panetta, the former Clinton White House Chief of Staff, said “We cannot ignore the swath of red [Republican] states across the South and Midwest. The party of FDR has become the party of Michael Moore and ‘Fahrenheit 9/11, and it does not help us in big parts of the country.”
Now that the election’s over, I recommend that we all band together to keep our issues front and center before the public. I had a 2-color bumpersticker printed up that says “I’m A Values Voter.” Let everyone in San Antonio traffic know why you voted for President Bush by getting a sticker while supplies last. Click on http://www.takeastand.net/values.asp.
Now that the church has awoken from its slumber, it’s my prayer that it won’t go back to sleep for another four year nap. We need to continue to “fight the good fight” each and every day for our Biblical values.
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