Democrats: Party Without Values

I hope the dummies at the DNC spend more and more money on this kind of silliness:

The liberal polling firm Democracy Corps has released the results of its latest research project. Titled, "The Culture Divide & the Challenge of Winning Back Rural & Red State Voters," the memo encapsulating the results of a series of focus groups paints a grim picture for Democrats. "Most [focus group participants] referred to Democrats as 'liberal' on issues of morality, but some even go so far as to label them 'immoral,' 'morally bankrupt,' or even 'anti-religious,'" report Karl Agne and Stan Greenberg from Democracy Corps.

Go figure. The same day Democracy Corps released its study, NARAL Pro-Choice America began airing a television ad that implies Supreme Court nominee Judge John G. Roberts supports abortion clinic bombers. Whether you call it "the God gap," "the values gap," or "the culture gap," it has never been wider than it is now.

It's been almost ten months since Democrats promised to take "moral values" voters seriously after the drubbing this important voting bloc gave them in the 2004 election. Back then, it seemed every aspiring Democrat politician in America was ready to enroll in the Rites of Catholic Initiation for Adults or start attending an Evangelical Megachurch. "Our moral values are closer to the American people than the Republicans' are," Howard Dean preached in his campaign to become the new chairman of the Democrat National Committee. Dean's opponent Don Fowler went a step further saying, "I am a Democrat because I am a Christian, not in spite of it."

It all came off as a bit solicitous and, frankly, futile. It's hard to imagine anyone uttering the word "values" more frequently than altar boy John Kerry did during the 2004 campaign. And it's not as if Americans of faith were a swing group. President George W. Bush beat Kerry among both Protestants (59%-40%) and Catholics (52%-47%). He won among those who attend church monthly, weekly, and more than once a week, which is to say people who enter a church for reasons other than to ask for directions (though Kerry slaughtered Bush among voters who never attend church). White Evangelicals supported Bush over Kerry by a greater margin than gays, lesbians, and bisexuals favored Kerry.

Here's a suggestion for the next "study": let's take a look at Democrats and patriotism.

Anyone care to bet that a larger proportion of Americans who say they love Old Glory vote GOP?

The Dems are patriotic after their fashion---they simply tend to prefer the French tricolor, the UN flag, or whatever it is the EUnuchs fly to the Stars and Stripes.

For those of you who are true patriots of the Sam Adams stripe and still vote Democratic, I feel for you. It is a tough thing not to be able to display your love of this country at your own party's gatherings for fear of moonbat violence.