Religious Right May Not Go To Polls (Frustrated With GOP Lies)

[ruggerson]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060922/pl_nm/values_dc

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Religious conservatives voiced frustration on Friday with Republican Party leaders and their failure to push key social initiatives through the U.S. Congress and said it could hurt voter turnout in November's elections.

At a "Values Voters Summit" sponsored by leading religious conservative groups, some activists said President George W. Bush and Republican leaders showed too much pragmatism and too little concern for issues like abortion, immigration and banning gay marriage.

"There is no question people are frustrated with the Republican Party. The message it sends is: 'We don't care where you stand, we just want you to be a Republican,"' said Phil Burress, president of the Ohio-based Citizens for Community Values.

Burress was a leader in the state's 2004 fight for a ballot initiative banning gay marriage, credited with helping turn out conservative support for Bush. He said he was not sure religious conservatives would turn out with the same vigor in 2006.

"There is a big number who may not show up to vote," he said.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. This country is so f@cked up.

A big bloc of voters won't vote because the folks who were all wrapped up in figuring out how to torture foreigners in secret prisons didn't get far enough along on their agenda to deprive thousands of Americans of their civil rights?

I wish I could move to Antarctica.

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

8. Hey, French wine country is great this time of year

A couple of my old colleagues emigrated there-- life's apparently been grand, and no more Bu$hit do deal with.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. "They're just not hateful enough...like they're not real conservatives"ive

[HockeyMom]

3. "Tweedledum and Tweedledee"

As one Freeper put it on the choice of McCain (or Rudy) and Hillary. Yes, he said he would stay home unless a "real" Christian Conservative Republican ran.

[Dr.Phool]

4. There's no reason for them to go to the polls.

The rapture is scheduled for Wed. November 8th.

They should quit their jobs and stay home and pray, starting on Halloween, until the rapture.

[AlinPA]

5. That's B.S. They will flock to the polls when the R's crank up their hate

for gay people, wave their flags, bibles and Gawd issues.

[Nay]

6. Agreed. This is BS. There's no way they won't vote for pubs.

[justgamma]

7. We've been trying to tell them

that Shrub and the pukes are nevergoing to cave to their demands. If it wasn't for Gays and God, the pukes wouldn't have anything they could use to get people to the polls.