AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
EDITORIALS; Post-Election Moaning and Gnashing of Teeth.(Editorial)
Let me utilize this opening paragraph to make a pitch for "Today's News & Views," found on NRLC's web page: www.nrlc.org. A first draft of what I am about to discuss appeared over a period of about six days in this daily web column. Please take a second to go there and sign up to have this feature sent to your inbox automatically.
Those who've followed the post-election moaning and gnashing of teeth already know that Democrats in general, and pro-abortion Democrats in particular, have refused "to get over it." Far from healing all wounds, the more time elapses between the President's 51% to 48% victory and their latest musings, the angrier their responses tend to be. Why?
Disappointment that a President they thought they had in their cross-hairs won with more than 50% of the vote (the first time this has happened since 1988) and a 3.5 million vote margin to boot? Sure.
Bitterness that Sen. Kerry may have fumbled away a possible chance to win when the nation is at war and the economy's performance uneven? Of course, although this vastly underestimates Mr. Bush's strengths and greatly exaggerates how poorly Sen. Kerry ran his campaign.
There are any number of explanations, but many to most of them intersect with the abortion issue in ways that are not often appreciated. We've explored these points of contact at length in "Today's News & Views," but can only touch on them here.
Let's first clear away some rhetorical brush and demolish some strawmen erected by various overwrought columnists and political pundits.
It is quite true that the initial discussion of the now famous "moral values" voter was less than a model of clarity. This refers to the 22% who said "moral values" in response to the question, "Which one issue mattered most in deciding how you voted for president?"
- GETTING SMART ABOUT SEX CONCERNED PARENTS SHOULD LOBBY FOR ACCEPTABLE COURSES...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe January 18, 1987 700+ words
bethw ;12/09 CORCOR;01/16,12:01 BETH0118
- Focus on moral values tipped vote for Bush.(PAGE ONE)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times November 4, 2004 700+ words
...THE WASHINGTON TIMES Moral values topped the list of issues...found 22 percent cited moral values as the "most important...when he talked about moral values: The "culture of life...July fund-raiser in New York City, where celebrities...
- Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Social History Rosenzweig, Linda W. December 22, 2004 700+ words
...Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America. By Martha Saxton (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003...investigates the nature of the moral values that were culturally...definitions of their moral values, particularly with regard...
- Saxton, Martha Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America.(Book...
- Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books Beatty, Frederick M. June 22, 2003 700+ words
New York: Hill and Wang 388 pp...Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America, Saxton...identify and explore their moral values and to determine how they...Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America presents...
- Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Caldwell, Lee Ann September 22, 2005 700+ words
...Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America. By Martha Saxton. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003...but also the origins of moral values in societal and religious...understanding of the moral values found in the cultural...
- "Moral values" not enough.
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight April 1, 1998 700+ words
...The mere effort to uphold "moral values" is not an adequate representation...limina visit. This group, from the New York region, will be followed by the...warned that the promotion of "moral values" constitutes only a small part...
- Bridging the allies' divide; Europeans need moral values, too.(OPED)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times November 24, 2004 700+ words
...election stated that they considered "moral values" their most important issue...hyperventilating of the Hollywood-New York elite after the U.S. election...people are embarrassed to talk about moral values," says Tessa Keswick of the Center...
- Davis, David Brion: in the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our...
- Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books Rodriquez, Junius P. March 22, 2002 700+ words
...In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery New...In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery...as extended book reviews in the New York Review of Books and other scholarly...
Source: HighBeam Research, EDITORIALS; Post-Election Moaning and Gnashing of Teeth.(Editorial)