Reply #12: What even the non-evangelical Bushbots [View All]

[frogmarch]

mainly care about in my neck of the woods are (1) making abortion illegal, and (2) keeping homosexuals from marrying.

My husband's Lutheran sister and her husband, both Democrats, agree with (2), but they see it as unimportant compared to what they call "real" issues, mainly those that affect their pocketbook. They say that their fellow South Dakota ranchers, all whom support the Bush agenda because of these two issues, are not using their heads, that they're not thinking things through. Many of the emails they get from their neighbors have subject lines like "What Dr. Dobson wants us to do..." (They delete them, unread.)

Should the Democratic Party abandon its stand on these issues to try to win votes? These two relatives of mine say yes. I say no. Not only would it be disingenuous, but doing so would lose more votes nationally than would be gained.