John McCain’s victory speech on the heels of last night’s unsurprising Wisconsin win, which had the Arizona senator asserting for the first time that “I will be our party’s nominee for President,” featured none of the traditional values talk we’ve come to expect from Republican nominees. No mention of abortion, “traditional marriage,” judges, the role of faith in public life, etc. But McCain’s general election campaign may shape up as a test of whether battling terrorism has become a true “values” issue for evangelicals and other religious voters. This is a subject on which McCain did weigh in last night:
The most important obligation of the next President is to protect Americans from the threat posed by violent extremists who despise us, our values and modernity itself. They are moral monsters, but they are also a disciplined, dedicated movement driven by an apocalyptic zeal, which celebrates murder, has access to science, technology and mass communications, and is determined to acquire and use against us weapons of mass destruction. The institutions and doctrines we relied on in the Cold War are no longer adequate to protect us in a struggle where suicide bombers might obtain the world’s most terrifying weapons.
If we are to succeed, we must rethink and rebuild the structure and mission of our military; the capabilities of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies; the purposes of our alliances; the reach and scope of our diplomacy; the capacity of all branches of government to defend us. We need to marshal all elements of American power: our military, economy, investment, trade and technology and our moral credibility to win the war against Islamic extremists and help the majority of Muslims, who believe in progress and peace, win the struggle for the soul of Islam.
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posted February 20, 2008 at 3:25 pm
John MCcain knows that christians are not going to vote for anyone else,so he can run on anything. Christians has always been ,and still are puppets for the GOP.
posted February 20, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Christians will always vote for GOP no matter what platform they run on. Christians think the GOP is annointed by God,and they can not do any wrong.
posted February 20, 2008 at 5:43 pm
OMG!!!!!!!!! This was Mc Cain’s chance to quote Psalm 127:1, citing it is God who protects, not the DHS! He could have scored an 11 on God-o-Meter, and he muffed it.
Campaign slogan, I am the Protector! It would have been more believable if Ah-nold had been nominated.
posted February 25, 2008 at 9:59 am
LJ–How can you say that when you see such growing evangelical enchantment from the GOP?
posted February 27, 2008 at 10:36 am
I dont think it’s a stretch to say that LJ is correct because christians as a whole are extremely traditional and set against change.
There’s nothing as dangerous as blind faith. This article “McCain’s Values-Free Victory Speech” punctuates that fact quite well. It speaks of the “violent extremists who despise us.” However. The issue to look most closely at is the way the christians have acted up to this point.
“Christians has always been ,and still are puppets for the GOP.” LJ would agree that christians hold blind faith in the republican front runner. Even the graphs and tables God-O-Meter uses to support that christians are shying away from the republican party still shows that at least 40% will vote from blind faith yet again.
As a whole this Article can be shot down due to its’ repugnant support of an obvious asertion to use Direct and or Indirect violence to help pacify the middle east. How very,very,very christian. Anti-O-Meter rates this a 10! It’s well on its way to leading us all to an apocolyptical end!