Post by hoyarooter on Nov 8, 2004 17:17:35 GMT -5
I found the "your worse", "no, you're worse" demonization exchange below interesting (if unfortunate), but in the spirit of Can You Top This, I will quote below excerpts from an editorial column that appeared in Thursday's LA Times, written by Frank Pastore, a former major league pitcher who must have been hit in the head by too many line drives. Believe me, this is not taken out of context.
"Christians, in politics as in evangelism, are not against people or the world. But we are against false idea that hold good people captive. On Tuesday, this nation rejected liberalism, primarily because liberalism has been taken captive by the left. Since 1968, the left has taken millions captive, and we must help those Democrats who truly want to be free to actually break free of this evil ideology.
"In the weeks and months to come, we will hear the voices of well-meaning people beseeching the victor to compromise with the vanquished. This would be a mistake. Conservatives must not compromise with the left. Good people holding false ideas are won over only if we defeat what is false with the truth.
"The left must be defeated in the realm of ideas, just as it was on Tuesday at the ballot box. The left hates the ballot box and loves its courtrooms, which is why it hopes to continue to advance its agenda through the courts. This must end.
"The left bewitches with its potions and elixirs, served daily in its strongholds of academe, Hollywood and old media. It vomits upon the morals, values and traditions we hold sacred: God, family and country. As we learned Tuesday, it is clear the left holds the majority of Americans, the majority of us, in contempt.
"Simply, a majority of Americans have rejected John Kerry and John Edwards and the left because they are wrong. They are wrong because there are not two Americans. We are one nation under a God they reject."
Good stuff, huh? I'm sure Mr. Pastore would love to save the 48 million+ of us who voted for Kerry from going to hell.
"Christians, in politics as in evangelism, are not against people or the world. But we are against false idea that hold good people captive. On Tuesday, this nation rejected liberalism, primarily because liberalism has been taken captive by the left. Since 1968, the left has taken millions captive, and we must help those Democrats who truly want to be free to actually break free of this evil ideology.
"In the weeks and months to come, we will hear the voices of well-meaning people beseeching the victor to compromise with the vanquished. This would be a mistake. Conservatives must not compromise with the left. Good people holding false ideas are won over only if we defeat what is false with the truth.
"The left must be defeated in the realm of ideas, just as it was on Tuesday at the ballot box. The left hates the ballot box and loves its courtrooms, which is why it hopes to continue to advance its agenda through the courts. This must end.
"The left bewitches with its potions and elixirs, served daily in its strongholds of academe, Hollywood and old media. It vomits upon the morals, values and traditions we hold sacred: God, family and country. As we learned Tuesday, it is clear the left holds the majority of Americans, the majority of us, in contempt.
"Simply, a majority of Americans have rejected John Kerry and John Edwards and the left because they are wrong. They are wrong because there are not two Americans. We are one nation under a God they reject."
Good stuff, huh? I'm sure Mr. Pastore would love to save the 48 million+ of us who voted for Kerry from going to hell.