I agree, jeremiah.
It appears that our Christian Leaders, including Dr. Dobson and Dr. Bates, have fallen for the idea that we Christians should compromise our beliefs in order to restrain the amount of evil that will be done by the elected officials.
This is wrong.
The argument about "throwing away" our votes appears to have been accepted by almost everyone.
Is the voter really throwing away a vote by voting for the candidate that most represents him or her? No.
In our political system, we have a bunch of liberals who will not compromise their views. We also have a bunch of conservatives who are willing to compromise their views, and the views of the people they represent, in order to maintain a majority. Every year the conservatives adopt more of the liberal beliefs. Today the conservative politicians have beliefs that are as liberal as any liberal politician from 50 years ago.
Politics operate like a teeter-totter. When the two sides are balanced, the kids can work together to work the teeter-totter, and both sides can have fun.
Today's politics has the liberals at the end of their side of the teeter-totter, telling the conservatives that they are too close to the other side and need to get closer to the middle of the teeter-totter in order to make it work. So, we have the conservative polititians in the middle of the teeter-totter, wondering why they are not able to make their side go down, even with the political majority they have now.
What we need in our Government is more extreme right-wing fanatic Christians in order to balance the extreme left-wing fanatic liberals, not more compromise with their beliefs. It is the compromising of our values that has left us with two parties in the United States, the extreme liberal Democratic party, with most of the power, and the moderately liberal Republican party, which wonders why it is powerless.
It is the Christian leaders who have demanded that we Christians compromise our values for political power, instead of holding our politicians responsible for maintaining morality in our country. They are the ones who have thrown away their votes, and have made my vote worthless.
In order to turn the government around, and get it on the right track, we voters need to send a message to our politicians. Stop compromising our values! We will split the votes for conservative politicians, preventing them from getting into office until you give us the politicians who will fight for our values. If the politicians do not hold our values, then they should lose. If the liberals gain from this, then maybe the conservative politicians will finally wake up.
