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Christian Principles in an Election Year

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mrsanniep
Nov 08 2004
08:54 pm

If you look at how Bush phrases himself when talking about the war and foreign policy, he consistently makes both moral issues and did so during the campaign.

Many of the voters polled (by some poorly-worded polls that have led to oversimplified knee-jerk post-election commentary) felt that the war in Iraq and American foreign policy were “moral issues.” Same with the economy. It depends entirely on a voter’s ethnic and religious background. The emphasis on stem cell research, abortion and gay marriage came from the mainstream media and is turning out be quite suspect. Post-election analyses on C-SPAN (man, the number of post-election panel discussions is amazing!), as well as commentary in the NYT and WP show more varied results than originally thought. Read any alternative media (anything that doesn’t scream “liberal pity-party,” that is), and the “moral values” verdict isn’t so cut-and-dry.

Bush has definitely couched the war in Iraq/war against terror/general foreign policy in moral terms, i.e. using the words “right” and “wrong.” It’s pretty much how he managed to appeal to the Scots-Irish voting bloc.