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Well, there's lots of ways to deal with that other than the Faustian bargain Jeff describes. Voting for phonies and fakes just stinks of moral and societal decay. No good can possibly come of it.
Without getting too complicated, I think the solution is twofold:
1. Stop demonizing "the left." They do not "undermine Christian values" or make fun of them publicly." If I believe, for instance, that homosexuality is an acceptable moral behavior (and I do), that does not mean that I am making fun of people that feel differently.
2. The second point is related to the first. As best I can tell, Christ had no feelings one way or the other on gay marriage or flag burning or same sex adoption. And the bible never mentions abortion. These issues involve morality, but they should not implicate this crazy religion/politics mix we have today. That the "Christian Conservatives" have co-opted these issues for themselves, and mixed them with politics, is a source of great weakness for our country. They should be separated.
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We will stay the course. [8/30/06]
We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]
We will stay the course *** We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]
And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]
And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. [4/16/04]
And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]
Well, hey, listen, we’ve never been “stay the course” [10/21/06]
--- George W. Bush, President of the United States of America
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