Why Christian Americans ( and all other citizens who value morality) belong in the Democratic Party

Thank God for Liberal Democrats !     Pages :   1,     2,     3,     4,     [ 5 ]

With its dismal record on the environment, today's G.O.P.  can no more claim to be the "Party of Theodore Roosevelt", than it can seriously claim to be the "Party of Lincoln" !   Click on:   [the League of Conservation Voters' scorecard.]         The former Republican Governor of Delaware, Russ Peterson in his book, Patriots, Stand Up!, wrote, "Our cherished American way of life is under attack by the far right-wing Republicans who are now running the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives.  This is the product of a conspiracy that has been growing over the past few decades through the use of evil tactics and strategies, lies and deceptions to transform America. "Deception is now the hallmark of the Bush administration.  Read of the frightening chicanery in furthering an imperial strategy, nurturing the military-industrial complex, waging war on the environment, plunging the nation into debt, demeaning the needy, antagonizing the world and using terrorism to frighten and exploit."  Peterson calls on patriots to apply the principles of democracy now to retake America from a conservative elite that controls the country.         Russ Peterson is a scientist, public servant, business executive, citizen activist, who has been an executive with the DuPont Co., Republican Governor of Delaware, assistant to Republican Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, head of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality under Presidents Nixon and Ford, head of the Office of Technology Assessment, reporting to six Republican and six Democratic members of Congress, internationally acclaimed environmental leader, United Nations goodwill ambassador, and faculty member at Dartmouth College, Carleton College and the University of Wisconsin Madison.  His numerous national and international awards include 15 honorary doctorates.  In 1996 he became a Democrat. [ www.governorpeterson.org ] .         In 1991, the famous Republican satirist P.J. O'Rourke published a book called "Parliament of Whores" in which he attempted to explain U.S. politics. One of the books most famous passages is the following:         "I have only one firm political belief about the American political system, and that is this: God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat. ...God is an elderly or, at any rate, middle-aged male, a stern fellow, patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and regulations. He holds men strictly accountable for their actions. . ...God is unsentimental. It is very hard to get into God's heavenly country club. Santa Claus is another matter. He's always cheerful, and he loves animals. He may know who's been naughty and who's been nice, but he never does anything about it. He works hard for charities, and he's famously generous to the poor. Santa Claus is preferable to God in every way but one: There is no such thing as Santa Claus."         I can't help but wonder what made O'Rourke contrast God and Santa, rather than God and Jesus, as does a bumper sticker I once saw which read: "Jesus is a Democrat, but GOD is a Republican". Of course, O'Rourke's whole contrast falls flat on its face because Republicans like himself could hardly laugh at a punch line saying "There's no such thing as Jesus Christ!"

These are the scores given a few years ago to the Leaders of the two political parties by five major organizations representing opposing interests :
ASC =	American Security Council			( Military interests )
COC =	Chamber of Commerce			( Business interests )
COPE =	Committee On Political Education			( Labor interests )
CFA =	Consumer Federation of America			( Consumer interests )
LCV =	League of Conservation Voters			( Environmental interests )
Group Ratings (from 1997:)	ASC	COC	COPE	CFA	LCV
Sen. Lott (GOP)	100	100	5	0	0
Sen. Nickles (GOP)	100	91	0	0	8
Rep. Hastert (GOP)	100	91	0	20	11
Rep. Armey (GOP)	100	100	0	0	9
Rep. Delay (GOP)	100	100	0	0	9
Rep. Archer (GOP)	100	91	0	0	17
Sen. Daschle (Dem)	20	20	63	90	77
Sen. Reid (Dem)	30	18	100	90	85
Rep. Gephardt (Dem)	40	9	89	100	67
Rep. Frost (Dem)	70	36	67	90	52
Rep. Bonier (Dem)	20	9	100	100	78
Click on this link for dozens more scorecards from organizations of both the Right and the Left. And where do Republicans get the gall to pose as more patriotic than Democrats ? See my "ChickenHawks" page about all of the people that Republicans elect to leadership roles in their party, people who send others to die in the wars that they champion and vote for, while they find excuses to stay home  themselves!

If America's voters were not being kept in total darkness about the historical fact that much of that family's wealth and power is a direct result of their extremely vital Support of Adolf Hitler's    NAZI Germany, how many of them would have ever considered either George Walker Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, or Prescott Bush fit for high office in America ?         If you are still in the dark about what I am talking about, then remove your blind fold, if you can, and start reading and promoting : www.LiberalsLikeChrist.Org/BushFamily

This is a list of major Contributors to the Republican Party.   You can call or write to them right now if you want to tell them that if they don't change, you will be boycotting them.  And you can print out this table, so as to have it handy later whenever you have financial decisions to make that might involve these companies.
AFLAC	AT&T	Alfa Mutual Insurance
American Airlines	American Express	Amoco
Amway	Anadarko Petroleum	Anheuser-Busch
Archer Daniels Midland – ADM President Paul Krug	Atlantic Richfield Co. (ARCO)	Bell-Atlantic
Bristol-Myers Squib	Brown & Williamson Tobacco	CIGNA Corp.
CSX Corp.	Chevron	Cintas Corp.
Circuit City Stores – Corporate Headquarters - 1-888-304-8378	Coca-Cola	Coors Brewing Company Voice = 1-800-642-6116 1-800-443-8242 Fax = (303) 277-6490
Conesco	Cracker Barrel Restaurants	Domino's Pizza
Dole Food Co.	Dow Chemical	Eckerd Drugs
Eli Lilly & Co.	Exxon	Federal Express
First Union Corp.	Fruit of the Loom	General Motors
Georgia-Pacific	Glaxo Wellcome	Golden Rule Financial Corp.
Greenbrier Hotel	Gulf Oil Limited	Grand Union Company
Hilton Hotel	J.C. Penney	Joseph E. Seagram & Sons
Leonard's of Great Neck	Loews New York Hotel	Lord & Taylor
MSNBC – call NBC News President Andrew Lack at (212) 664-4611	MCI Telecommunications	Marriott International
Mass. Mutual Life Insurance	Merrill Lynch	Mesa Petroleum
Mirage Resorts	Morgan Stanley & Co.	Murphy Oil Corp.
Nabisco Foods Inc.	New York Life Insurance Co.	Northwest Airlines
Orbit Oil	Oxley Petroleum	PaineWebber Group
Pepsi-Cola	Pfizer Inc.	Philip Morris
Pilgrim's Pride Corp.	Plaza Cleaning Service Co.	R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Penske Corp.	St. Andrews Realty	Scripps League Newspapers
Station Casinos	Sterling Software	Tele-Communications Inc.
Time-Warner Inc.	Torchmark Corp.	Travelers Group
Trump's Casino Resort	US Tobacco Co.	Union Pacific / Southern Pacific
WMX Technologies	Wendy's Foods – Voice (614) 764-3100	Western Bank

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