We lost this election due to the evangelical christian vote. So many states had banning homosexuality on the ballot, driving out the voters. Playing to that Christian base won a 3.5 million gap between the candidates. My question is: How do we defend against this moral hypocrisy that has always been fundamentalist Christianity? Tolerance is preached, but intolerance is the action. How do you defend against brain-washing? Muslims can't seem to find a way, and I dont know that we will either. Any suggestions?

I would like to hear what Conservative Democrats want in a candidate? This election has proven that there are more conservative dems. than left wing liberals.... Now let the establishment know what it would take to get your vote back...

Well, anyone who checked my profile sees that I'm a Republican.  I'm also a long time Bush supporter going back to 2000, and was thrilled with the election outcome.  I've seant the past few hours reading the posts here.  Maybe we really are evil, because I found enjoyment in the desperation and disgust felt my you guys at Bush's win (that has too be worth a few years in purgatory at least).  But, I think I learned something about you guys.  If you guys learn the same thing about us, it will help you in the long run.

When I see protests like "No Blood For Oil" and things about Bush starting a Global War for Oil, and wanting to eliminate all taxes on the rich and take over the world and the like, I used to think the left only said that in an attempt to scare people inot voting against Bush.  I thought it was a grab for power, and it was only about power.  But, reading everything here, I've realized many of you truely believe that stuff.  You really see this race as a battle against evil.  You really believe Bush is trying to line the riches pockets, get all the oil he can, and all those other accusations which have been spent.  I used to think those were just attacks used to discredit, not honest beliefs. 

I've heard people already saying this shows the Democrats need to make fundamental changes.  By this they mean going right wing.  Why?  By any measure we are the centrist party of America.  A couple of weeks ago I watched Brad Carson debate Tom Coburn.  I was really surprised at how right wing Carson, the Democrat, was.  Yet he still lost to a nutcase who wants the death penalty for doctors who perform abortions.  How can you compete with that?  This election has also been compared to Goldwater in 1964.  Yet he lost for being too right wing.  Today's Republicans are further to the right.  And far more dishonest.  Coupled with the Goldwater comparsion, the media tell us we must change.  But the point is that the Republicans didn't move to where the voters were.  They changed the landscape.

There is a real sickness in this Christian fundamentalism.  It's like a cult that is making Americans blind to truth and reason.  Tim Russert asked Bob Kerrey how Democrats can do better on 'moral issues'.  He quite rightly pointed out that the only way to appease the growing band of people who perceive this as the critical issue is to turn anti-abortion.  There's no slick compromise or third way.  Either we change entirely, or we lose these people's votes.  And we cannot and should not do this .  It's a no-win situation.

Last year, I lost my Mother to pancreatic cancer. There were many others who lost loved ones to this horrible disease. We all share the grief. Many of us are aware that it may NOT have had to be this way.

Under George W. Bush’s watch, funding for research into this disease has been cut by more than a third to just over seven million dollars. Seven million. A fraction of the money, totaling hundreds of billions we have spent in another country. And now we are being asked for another seventy-five billion. BILLION. And it has cost us over eleven hundred lives. Lives that were full of promise. Many young lives. Yet we can’t afford to save lives. We can’t devote our resources to the things that really matter. We can’t be seen, as we were for so many years by the rest of the world, as leaders. Leaders in crisis. Leaders in research. Leaders in compassion.

My mother slipped away just after Bush announced "mission accomplished". She was aware of the cost of the war. She was also aware of the funding cuts that would affect so many people. Had she lived. I know who she would have voted for. After seeing two and a half years of "compassionate conservatism" at work, the choice would have been clear.

We are running out of October...... but the sudden capture of Bin Laden would be quite a boost for the GOP were it to happen this weekend, would it not?

Would refer you to http://www.osamabinlottery.com for a site that holds the notion up to the ridicule it deserves.

If it happens the public should be VERY cynical.

If it happens let's HOPE they ARE!

dE

What a despicable LIE! Demand a correction and apology:

Michelle Malkin malkin@comcast.net
NewsMax.com 561-686-1165 http://newsmax.com/contact.shtml

Michelle Malkin and NewsMax falsely claimed ACORN registered accused terrorist to vote
http://mediamatters.org/items/200410270005

In her October 27 nationally syndicated column, conservative pundit Michelle Malkin erroneously claimed that The Columbus Dispatch reported that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) registered illegal alien and accused terrorist Nuradin Abdi to vote in Ohio. While The Columbus Dispatch did report that Abdi was illegally registered to vote in Ohio, the paper never reported that ACORN registered Abdi. Rather, according to the Dispatch, Abdi appears to have registered to vote at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

Here's a simple proposal:

Let's pass a law that automatically registers every taxpayer (and dependent) to vote.

Why?

Because the current voter registration system is insane - and because it would be so easy to do.

All taxpayer records are computerized. They are kept exceptionally clean, so there are very few duplicates or errors.

What is the possible downside?

If someone doesn't want to vote, they don't have to.

If someone isn't a taxpayer or dependent, they can register under the current system.

If someone is a taxpayer but not a citizen, a flag would have to be set somehow in the file so the person would not be eligible to vote.

Politically, it's a win-win.

Republicans would love this system because fraud would be practically non-existent.

Democrats would love this system because every eligible citizen would be automatically registered to vote, saving hundreds of millions in voter registration drives and voter protection campaigns.

Election officials would love this system because they would not have to maintain a massive database filled with errors large and small that cause nightmares before, during, and after Election Day.

All in favor?