[lbo-talk] Al From Beats Tambourine

John Thornton jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Wed Nov 17 14:37:04 PST 2004


The GOP also opposes aid to the poor and most civil rights laws, which puts them in opposition to many evangelical beliefs.

72% of the Florida population supported an increase in the minimum wage, including no doubt large numbers of evangelical voters. The GOP is dead set against the minimum wage, so there are obvious areas to appeal to evangelicals on economic justice issues.

If you only build coalitions with people who agree with you 100%, you'll never win on any issue. It's better to appeal to folks on the issues where they agree with you, then write them off completely if they disagree on anything.

Nathan Newman

One of the problems this presents is which contradiction the voters will accept and which they will reject. Economic justice is a slippery thing that means different things to different people but god just plain old hates fags so I would expect most evangelicals to choose the side that is more concrete. I don't think many here are advocating "writing off" evangelicals. I think the concern is you won't win them over asking them to choose between Dem christian values vs. Repub christian values. They will in all probability choose Repub christian values. By all means don't disparage their religion, that will simply alienate them, but don't try to make religion a political choice either.

John Thornton



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