The "Godless" ad that U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole is running against her Democratic challenger in North Carolina is a stark reminder that faith-based attacks have been kept to a relative minimum in the presidential race.
It's also a reminder, to GOM at least, that the McCain campaign has thus far refrained from running ads against Obama based on Jeremiah Wright, his longtime pastor. That kind of attack would be the opposite of Dole's in North Carolina; rather than paint Obama as "Godless," it would skewer him for cozying up to a man of the cloth.
To God-o-Meter, there's a pattern here: faith-based attacks tend to come from Republicans who are religious and who've incorporated their faith into their political personas, e.g. Dole and Palin. And McCain, a Republican who's famously uncomfortable incorporating faith into his political persona is refraining from such attacks.
So if Palin, Mike Huckabee, or another social conservative gets the nod in 2012, due to a post-McCain religious right uprising, we could be looking at more faith-based attacks at the presidential level. By then, though, Rev. Wright would be old news
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I hasten to add, Dole's ad turns me off too.
Nothing unamerican about being an atheist. We are free to believe or not believe in this country and all should be treated equally. The biggest and least discussed part of this story is that open bigotry against atheists shouldn't be tolerated. It is unamerican and unchristian.
Also, beware of unamerican censorship. My earlier comments (nothing rude or vulgar) were deleted. Was this because I am not christian???
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"[T]he feminist movement today is throwing off authority in rebellion against God's pattern for the family." ["Bible Positions on Political Issues," John Hagee]
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Just want to also point out McCain's endorser besides calling
the Catholic Church the Mother Whore; also doesn't hold women
in high regard.
Why does McCain fund this guy's foundation?
Ron
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