"Blinded by Faith" put a spotlight on the fanatics

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Remember in the 2000 election when politicians were falling all over themselves to profess their deep religious convictions? Dubya with his "favorite philosopher" act and Lieberman's pious campaign schedule? I have a suggestion for the current Democratic crop: Lose the most-religious-guy-in-the-race shtick. It didn't work then and it isn't going to work now.
 
No matter what happens, Democrats aren't getting the votes of people who believe that Bush's selection by the Supreme Court was ordained by God. So ignore the advice of consultants praying that you pander to the faithful. You aren't going to out-religion GW and the Shiite Baptists down in Texas. More importantly, you might be giving up your best line of attack just by trying.
 
Karl Rove plans on making the theme of this election that we live in a dangerous world, and that George Bush is the only man we can trust to steer a course through it. But Bush is charting that course not with facts and reason, but with the superstition born of blind belief. Time and again, when facts fail to fit Bush's dogma, it is the facts that are discarded, instead of the dogma. Whether it is global warming, military intelligence, or economic projections, when facts confront ideology in the White House, the facts usually lose and the ideology usually wins.
 
But facts are stubborn things. So no matter how many times Bush says his tax cuts have turned the economy around, the lost jobs still remain lost. Whether George Bush believes in the science of global warming or not, the heat wave in Europe is still killing people by the thousands. And while Bush might have told us that "combat operations in Iraq were over" and our "mission was accomplished", the Iraqis apparently weren't listening because our soldiers continue to die in Iraq almost every day.
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