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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (17793)	7/8/2001 6:15:12 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Allow me- proper tone: California voters, who never despised President Clinton enough, are in the forefront of the emergence of the rise of heretical non-religious voters, a trend, sadly, taking place nationally and probably portending the Last Days. Oops- took the wrong sentence- another go: Upright and moral Republican strategists, carefully and impartially examining new troubling census data and recent election returns, are warning that the electorate is moving steadily to the dastardly left and that the party needs to adopt new rhetoric and tactics to attract the growing number of (deluded) working women, Hispanics, secular voters and socially tolerant, heretical, well-educated professionals who are at present leaning to the left..

To: Lane3 who wrote (17793)	7/8/2001 9:11:11 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

How are Republicans being cavalier toward secular types? I don't see the leadership treating you as second class citizens at all. I think the fears of the left, and of secular types, are overblown. Bush's ideas are fairly innocuous. Rosa Parks and many black ministers have endorsed his faith based initiatives. I don't know what it is in the census data that has Castellanos and Bond so bothered. The population shift will help Republicans when it comes to redistricting. Other than that I don't see what it is in the census data that is very useful to them. I know a guy who wrote he was a Druid on the census form. This is how I would have written the opening to that story: Inside the beltway journalists and a few talking heads, sweating over recent decisive conservative election wins in Virginia and New Jersey, (and looking to fill a news vacuum) are trying to put forward the notion that the country is moving leftward. Two solitary Republican strategists, embarrassed to be associated with people they think are right wing nuts from the fever swamp, have cheerily chimed in their agreement. They both failed to notice that the latest Zogby poll showed Bush has a 60-30 favorable/unfavorable rating.