David Kuo and Protest Votes
by: MavMin
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I would like to ask David Kuo a question or two. Before this Administration what kind of faith based organization support existed at the Federal level? None is the correct answer. Thus, if you think that they did not get all that they should have under this Administration how much would they have gotten under the Kerry Administration? Again, none is the correct answer. Mr. Kuo doesn't appear to know much about the funding of Federal agencies. The faith based initiative being a new project would be harder to fund than the older ones. It is the new kid on the block and the fact that it got what it did is impressive. Every year the well established Agencies submit budgets that are usually greatly inflated knowing they are going to be cut back. The adage is if you need a Chevrolet ask for a Rolls Royce because if you ask for a Chevrolet you may end up with a VW Beetle. Sometimes you still got a VW Beetle and you had to fight for that because they might have tried to give you a pedal car or they gave you the Chevrolet and no money for gas. Getting appropriations is a tough battle. Even if there were no war a new project would have trouble getting everything it asked for so the war may not even be the reason for the amount received.
While I agree that God sits on the throne and thus whoever sits on the Hill can only do what He allows, it is silly and immoral to sit back and do nothing when we have the right to vote our conscience. The devil and evil do not take a sabbatical or declare a moratorium so why should Christians? Kuo's premise is ludicrous. It is like walking past a naked person with clothes in your hand but telling him that you gave your quota for the month.
True healing of this land will only come, if it ever will, when Christians return to living like 1st Century Christians. If we repent then God will heal the land. One area that we need to repent is in our political views. There are many, many preachers that preach the Old Book and values that are considered Conservative on Sunday but then vote against those values in the polls and teach their people to do the same. Many people vote their heritage regardless of issues. One fellow told me that as a good Southern gentleman that he could never vote for a Republican yet when he speaks his values he isn't a Democrat or at least the modern version of one. That kind of loyalty is not honorable. It is silly and destructive not constructive. In essence, he would have voted for a Hitler if he ran on the Democratic ticket against the Apostle Paul if he had run as a Republican. You must look at the issues not your geographic or partisan heritage. Nor should race be an issue if you are a Christian. I know Conservative pastors of color that vote for Liberals because they think they are being loyal to their race. By being disloyal to their Christian values they are actually hurting their race more than helping them and they are voting to have their faith driven from the public forum. That is also silly and destructive.
Some are suggesting a protest vote. May I offer two words? Ross Perot. That concept has been tried before and we got eight years of a man that the majority did not want. He won with the same percentage that the previous Democrat had when he lost. He was in office because of a split in the Conservative vote. Do we want that again? It would seem counterproductive to repeat the same mistake. Want to protest? Get active at the local level and get your favorite splinter party candidate to infiltrate the Republicans like Howard Dean did the Democrats. Shucks, he may become the Chairman of the RNC whereas now he is accomplishing nothing.
Many years ago I said that if you want to run the US then buy a Republican and buy a Democrat and see that they run against each other and you will be in control either way. Lou Dobbs seems to think that day has arrived and has said that there is no difference between the two parties. I disagree but the reality is that no third party candidate can win so if you vote for a Liberal or Conservative third party candidate you are voting for the guy you really don't want to win. Like it or not, a Republican or a Democrat is going to win so they are your only true choices. Protest votes or not voting at all will hurt you worse than voting for the lad you are mad at. Voting the lesser of two evils is still more productive than not voting at all or allowing the greater of the two evils to take office.
I am not a George Bush fan. He was the lesser of the two evils for me. Have the Republicans given me everything that I wanted? Nope. However, I didn't get all the things I definitely didn't want from the Democrats. Therefore, I am still ahead of the game. You may not like the current plan but the opposition has no plan but they want you to vote for their people and they will get a plan once in power. I really don't think that is a better deal. Tell me what you will do now and maybe I will vote for you. All I really know is that what I voted against will come to pass if they get power and Nancy Pelosi will get her pick of offices. Not much of perk there in my book.
Whatever you do, vote. If you are a Christian, then Christian values should be your primary criteria for picking a candidate. Everything else should be secondary or even non-issues. Whichever party will support those values best then that is the one you should vote for in any election. If Dobbs is right then vote for the one that tells the lies you like rather than for the one whose lies you don't like. Even if that is all we have then we still have to exercise our right as citizens and moral obligation as Christians. Since I may have some Jewish blood in me may I remind my Jewish firends that Moses would definitely be called a Conservative if he were alive so I don't think he would approve of you voting Liberal. Just a thought.
By the way, for my Liberal readers, I am not a 501 (c) 3 so I can say what I want and even if I were I believe that law states that a specific candidate cannot be endorsed or disparaged but it does not say anything about parties or platforms. I have not endorsed any candidates and the names I have mentioned in this article are not running so unruffle your feathers and have some Chamomile tea.
Shalom!
About the Author
Dr. Ronald Shultz is a bivocational pastor, author and supply preacher. He grew up in a home with a velvet Elvis and a JFK tapestry on the same wall. He was a hippie, Leftist, Democrat in the 60's and early 70's but became a born-again Christian in 1975 and everything changed for him. Now, an unapologetic right-winger in theology and politics (Go, Pat, Go) he has truly become a Maverick and when the herd is aheadin' fer the cliff, it t'ain't bad bein' a Maverick! Right is right and Left isn't.
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Comments
Nov 3rd 2006, by
dgerwin11
A protest vote is better than no vote. Also by voting for a legitimate 3rd party, we are growing the pool for future elections. Not voting sends the message to the incumbents and wannabes that we don't carew as long as our own table is set. A 3rd party vote sends a wake up call that we need change.
Start at local and state levels.
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A protest vote is better than no vote. Also by voting for a legitimate 3rd party, we are growing the pool for future elections. Not voting sends the message to the incumbents and wannabes that we don't carew as long as our own table is set. A 3rd party vote sends a wake up call that we need change.
Start at local and state levels.
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Nov 4th 2006, by
MavMin
Did the "wakeup" call of Ross Perot really do anything at all for Conservatives? No and it will not do so now, 3d parties are a joke. They will never change anything unless one of the two major parties fold. Sorry, but it is a pipedream unless the Democrats are eliminated from power. You can't do that by voting anything other than Republican.
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Did the "wakeup" call of Ross Perot really do anything at all for Conservatives? No and it will not do so now, 3d parties are a joke. They will never change anything unless one of the two major parties fold. Sorry, but it is a pipedream unless the Democrats are eliminated from power. You can't do that by voting anything other than Republican.
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Nov 12th 2006, by
MavMin
Well, the elections are over and it is a sad day for America. The Christians who did the protest vote thing and voted for the party of death and perversion or threw their vote away on, as Mike Mevded says, the Losertarians or others better not complain later. As one evangelist friend of mine said in a sermon, "You got what you wanted but do you want what you got?" It remains to be seen. Every sinful bill passed in this period they will give an account for so I hope they knew what they were doing and are ready for the effect here and in the hereafter.
The good point is that some of the Liberals in the Republican party were weeded out and George Wills thinks that this Congress, much to the dismay of Speaker Pelosi, will be more Conservative with the RINOs gone and a few more Conservative Democrats replacing them. That will be interesting to see how the Dems feel about their paper victory if they lose their momentum practically because their allies are gone and their folks don't vote the party line.
Personally, I feel it will just be two more years of stalemate since they will be able to get things through the House like the Republicans did but will have trouble in the Senate since they don't have a large majority there either. If they pass something the President vetoes they won't get the 66 votes needed to override it. They may be just as frustrated as the Republicans have been the last six years.
Another plus is that Ms. Pelosi has been rude and crude before and now that she has more power I suspect she will only become worse and that may be a big plus to the Republicans. After two years of a Pelosi wired on power people may well repent of their error and realize the Republicans weren't that bad after all. Besides, there are bound to be some scandals in their ranks that they won't deal with properly as that is their modus operandi and that should send the anger the other way next time around.
Ideally, President Bush should ask Cheney to resign and get a contender in the slot that will have two years experience in '08. That would be a big plus but he will most likely not do it.
I reckon Christians will have to pray more and actually get back to evangelism and even seek more personal holiness since their faith in politics has been beaten up. Hmm, trusting more in Christ than polls and politics. What a novel idea. Preach, pray and plug away and we may see His power play!
Anyway, I fear not who reigns from Capitol Hill as I know the King of Calvary's Hill! Maranatha!!
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Well, the elections are over and it is a sad day for America. The Christians who did the protest vote thing and voted for the party of death and perversion or threw their vote away on, as Mike Mevded says, the Losertarians or others better not complain later. As one evangelist friend of mine said in a sermon, "You got what you wanted but do you want what you got?" It remains to be seen. Every sinful bill passed in this period they will give an account for so I hope they knew what they were doing and are ready for the effect here and in the hereafter.
The good point is that some of the Liberals in the Republican party were weeded out and George Wills thinks that this Congress, much to the dismay of Speaker Pelosi, will be more Conservative with the RINOs gone and a few more Conservative Democrats replacing them. That will be interesting to see how the Dems feel about their paper victory if they lose their momentum practically because their allies are gone and their folks don't vote the party line.
Personally, I feel it will just be two more years of stalemate since they will be able to get things through the House like the Republicans did but will have trouble in the Senate since they don't have a large majority there either. If they pass something the President vetoes they won't get the 66 votes needed to override it. They may be just as frustrated as the Republicans have been the last six years.
Another plus is that Ms. Pelosi has been rude and crude before and now that she has more power I suspect she will only become worse and that may be a big plus to the Republicans. After two years of a Pelosi wired on power people may well repent of their error and realize the Republicans weren't that bad after all. Besides, there are bound to be some scandals in their ranks that they won't deal with properly as that is their modus operandi and that should send the anger the other way next time around.
Ideally, President Bush should ask Cheney to resign and get a contender in the slot that will have two years experience in '08. That would be a big plus but he will most likely not do it.
I reckon Christians will have to pray more and actually get back to evangelism and even seek more personal holiness since their faith in politics has been beaten up. Hmm, trusting more in Christ than polls and politics. What a novel idea. Preach, pray and plug away and we may see His power play!
Anyway, I fear not who reigns from Capitol Hill as I know the King of Calvary's Hill! Maranatha!!
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Nov 12th 2006, by
Admin
I don't worry about what some radio clown thinks. He' just there to make a buck, kind of like the Republicans and Democrats. To vote Republican because you believe them to be this morally superior choice is absurd. Mark Foley, Jack Abramhoff and the other assorted crooks that have resigned from office in the past few months should dispel that myth. Not to mention that inside the big tent of the Republican party is a group called the Log Cabin Republicans which is a group of sodomites.
Also this morally superior party supported Joe Leiberman in the CT senate race. They would not even support their own candidate Alan Schleshinger (spelling?). They supported liberal Lincoln Chafee in Rhode Island. They support Arnold Swartzenegger in California. All Pro death candidates.
And lets not leave out G.W. Bush who said in both elections he ran in that he had no intention in turning over Roe V. Wade because he saw it as rooted in law.
Also the judges he appointed to the supreme court refused to re-hear both landmark abortion cases that the original plantiffs brought before them to have them overturned. What good does it do to have conservative judges on the bench if they won't hear the cases that we want to get overturned.
As for third parties being a joke, well do you think that the Republicans that lost by ten thousand votes is laughing at the third party candidate that got 10,000 plus votes? I think that they will be asking themselves how can we win back those votes. That means they will have to rid the party of the Liberal element that they have allowed to creep in.
This country survived 8 years of the Clintons. It will survive 2 years of Pelosi and the coming gridlock.
Peace
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I don't worry about what some radio clown thinks. He' just there to make a buck, kind of like the Republicans and Democrats. To vote Republican because you believe them to be this morally superior choice is absurd. Mark Foley, Jack Abramhoff and the other assorted crooks that have resigned from office in the past few months should dispel that myth. Not to mention that inside the big tent of the Republican party is a group called the Log Cabin Republicans which is a group of sodomites.
Also this morally superior party supported Joe Leiberman in the CT senate race. They would not even support their own candidate Alan Schleshinger (spelling?). They supported liberal Lincoln Chafee in Rhode Island. They support Arnold Swartzenegger in California. All Pro death candidates.
And lets not leave out G.W. Bush who said in both elections he ran in that he had no intention in turning over Roe V. Wade because he saw it as rooted in law.
Also the judges he appointed to the supreme court refused to re-hear both landmark abortion cases that the original plantiffs brought before them to have them overturned. What good does it do to have conservative judges on the bench if they won't hear the cases that we want to get overturned.
As for third parties being a joke, well do you think that the Republicans that lost by ten thousand votes is laughing at the third party candidate that got 10,000 plus votes? I think that they will be asking themselves how can we win back those votes. That means they will have to rid the party of the Liberal element that they have allowed to creep in.
This country survived 8 years of the Clintons. It will survive 2 years of Pelosi and the coming gridlock.
Peace
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Nov 27th 2006, by
Buddy
Democracy is a failure. As pointed out in the current issue of AmConMag (Democray Takes a Village), "nominal democracy" works more in theory than in practice". Non-voting is valid protest as indicated by the laments of the political elites regarding voter turn out. Voting is their support. To paraphrase Marx, voting is the opiate of the masses.
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Democracy is a failure. As pointed out in the current issue of AmConMag (Democray Takes a Village), "nominal democracy" works more in theory than in practice". Non-voting is valid protest as indicated by the laments of the political elites regarding voter turn out. Voting is their support. To paraphrase Marx, voting is the opiate of the masses.
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