IN MY OPINION ...
Marsha West, Founder & Editor
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Conservatives Do Not Deserve to Lose! By Marsha West
This is no time to cut and run.

African Americans should not go to the polls on Election Day.  Some folks inside the DNC have ridiculed Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, hence Blacks should shun politics.  Forget about voting!  Let the Republicans win.  That'll show the Democrats.

Would Blacks find that suggestion troubling?  You bet they would.  Evidently David Kuo, former deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives, and a professed Christian, thinks it's a good idea for Christians to "fast from politics."  During an interview Mr. Kuo told 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, "I think that Christians, particularly evangelical Christians, need to take a step back. To have a fast from politics." Why did he make this comment to Stahl?  Well, his feelings were hurt by some inside the administration that held nothing but contempt for Christian leaders. Should that scandalize Christians?  I mean, there are a few Christian leaders who have made harebrained remarks that they've had to apologize for.  So why was Kuo so surprised?

According to Gary Bauer, president of American Values, "Kuo was a political appointee, yet like Captain Renault in Casablanca, he was "shocked" to discover politics in the White House. … I believe the president's faith is real, but the fact is there are libertarians in the administration who don't always see eye-to-eye with conservative leaders. A few snide comments from those folks means absolutely nothing about the policies or programs the president is supporting. But Kuo is disillusioned with the White House and politics because, in his view, there wasn't sufficient emphasis on poverty, and after September 11th the programs he was working on took a back seat to Afghanistan and Iraq."  Concerning the 60 Minutes interview, Bauer asks, "When was the last time CBS featured a story with a prominent Christian leader about the positive influence of evangelicals in America? I guess it's only "newsworthy" when one confused Christian suggests others "fast from politics" three weeks before an election."

The left-wing media has reached a new low.

David Kuo was so hurt by the rude comments made by the GOP meanies that he felt it was necessary to write a book exposing them.  Kuo's book was published just two weeks before the November election, as was another insider book written by Washington Post Reporter Bob Woodward. 

I smell a rat, or two. 

Religious Right voters are being manipulated into believing that Republicans deserve to lose the election.  If the GOP deserves to lose then who, prey tell, deserves to win?  If the drive-by media are successful with their cut and run message to conservatives, the secular-progressive Christian-bashers will run the country. 

Al-Qaeda will be pleased.