Columnist Rochelle Riley, who was unknown to me before today, may not be a conservative, but she’s certainly cognizant of what ordinary Americans value, unlike liberals:
The Democratic Party better get some religion.Not just because the Republican Party strategy to place gay marriage bans on the ballot in 11 states got President George W. Bush re-elected.
Not just because Protestant voters preferred Bush to Kerry 54 percent to 45 percent.
No, the party needs religion because as America embraces its spirit, its moral values and its love of God, the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituency — African Americans — are, too, making decisions based on moral values…
“It appears that nationally the 4 million Christians that didn’t come out for the president in 2000 did,” said Bishop Keith Butler, pastor of Michigan’s largest black church, the 21,000-member Word of Faith International Christian Center in Southfield.
Butler, a Bush supporter, was among dozens of southeast Michigan black pastors who either support the president or his policies or both — and then urged their congregations to separate the man from the issues.
While many black Christians find voting for Republicans repugnant, if President Bush is advocating bans on homosexual “marriage” and promoting a pro-life agenda and Democrats are not, perhaps separating the man from his policies will make the medicine easier to swallow.
Bishop Butler adds: “We just re-emphasize what the Scripture teaches about marriage, that it is between a man and a woman.”
What Scripture teaches? Hmmm. He just might be on to something! 
Update: Election update:
Bush — 60,366,889
Kerry — 56,938,627
Bush is still breaking records. B4B says: “President George W. Bush not only won re-election in resounding fashion, he has become the first person ever to have garnered over 60,000,000 votes for President of the United States of America.”
Update II (11/14): Liberal bloggers are talking about me again. I’m getting a few hits from their sites, and the visitors are staying for a long time. For whatever it’s worth, I’m glad you’re here and hope you visit again.
A New York Story via Thomas Galvin: “Bush dramatically increased his vote total in the New York metropolitan area. John Kerry did not even garner as many votes that Al Gore did despite the diminished presence of Ralph Nader. Bush increased his vote total in all 8 counties. Kerry suffered a net loss from 2000 in all 8 counties except for Manhattan…”
I think James Carville really is on crack.
Some Democrats just can’t get over themselves. Really. Stop parsing the “red and blue” and move on, please.
