Is there any doubt about who's winning the culture war?
Kerry adviser Mike McCurry said it's important in the final days of the campaign that voters "get a better sense of John Kerry, the guy."None of these things are popular with the people who really want to vote for Kerry, and he wouldn't be bothering with all this posing if his actual positions and beliefs could get him elected.That means the Democratic senator is spending some of the dwindling time before Election Day hunting, talking about his faith and watching his beloved Red Sox. ...
"The fact that Senator Kerry is a person of faith is something that might help voters who are undecided," McCurry said.
Kerry has been explaining it more in recent weeks as he campaigns in socially conservative areas like rural Ohio. At a town hall meeting Saturday in Xenia, he talked about taking his rosary into battle during the Vietnam War. "I will bring my faith with me to the White House and it will guide me," Kerry said.
Or if his actual positions matched his professed beliefs. I don't believe in outlawing abortion either, but then, I'm not Catholic. I have more respect for a Catholic who supports the criminalization of abortion than one who doesn't, even if they don't support it for the same reasons that I don't.
Didnt Kerry recently state that he would not let his religious beliefs influence his policy decsions because he could not legislate his own morality?
Welcome to the waffle house...
This is the week when we find out just how much more informed conservatives have become over past elections. Kerry assumes that large numbers of hicks in flyover country are dumb enough to change their view of him because they heard that he shot a goose, follows baseball, and believes in God. (God's instructions to Kerry: Do absolutely nothing to oppose those who openly hate religion.)
Of course people in the Midwest aren't dumb, but they were once woefully misinformed thanks to a corrupt media. How much has the new media changed that? We will find out in less than two weeks. I'm optimistic.