Friday, February 18, 2005
God, the Democrat?
Howard Fineman (Spotlight: RCP)
As for the Democrats, there’s no reason they can’t make the Ten Commandments, and the Bible, their own. These days everyone wants to talk about values. But there is plenty in the Old and New Testaments—and in the commandments themselves—for them to cite. End Social Security as we know it? How does that “honor thy father and thy mother”? If the Lord wanted to honor His own creation—and wanted us to do so, too—by observing the Sabbath, what should that say about our respect for His handiwork (a k a the environment)? And of course there is a whole party platform in the social ministry of Jesus—if the Democrats would only get over their reluctance to talk about it.
Forget Fineman's silly remarks that privatizing SS is the same as ending it. And also forget Fineman's automatic association of Republicans with environmental destruction. The left calling the right hypocritical is like Scott Peterson calling Ward Clever a bad father. You can't stand for the things the Dems. stand for then try to battle the religious right on their turf, you will get slaughtered.
Listen, I like some things about the Democratic party (I'm a sucker for populist talk), I was a Democrat for most of my life. But, until the party ejects it's fringe and gets some sane domestic and foreign policies, I (and many like me) will continue to remain (mostly) happy transplants in the Republican party.
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As for the Democrats, there’s no reason they can’t make the Ten Commandments, and the Bible, their own. These days everyone wants to talk about values. But there is plenty in the Old and New Testaments—and in the commandments themselves—for them to cite. End Social Security as we know it? How does that “honor thy father and thy mother”? If the Lord wanted to honor His own creation—and wanted us to do so, too—by observing the Sabbath, what should that say about our respect for His handiwork (a k a the environment)? And of course there is a whole party platform in the social ministry of Jesus—if the Democrats would only get over their reluctance to talk about it.
Forget Fineman's silly remarks that privatizing SS is the same as ending it. And also forget Fineman's automatic association of Republicans with environmental destruction. The left calling the right hypocritical is like Scott Peterson calling Ward Clever a bad father. You can't stand for the things the Dems. stand for then try to battle the religious right on their turf, you will get slaughtered.
Listen, I like some things about the Democratic party (I'm a sucker for populist talk), I was a Democrat for most of my life. But, until the party ejects it's fringe and gets some sane domestic and foreign policies, I (and many like me) will continue to remain (mostly) happy transplants in the Republican party.
# posted by Joe Florida @ 6:10 AM 
