Pollster Frank Luntz has just returned from New Hampshire and Iowa with his 2008 review of Democratic presidential candidates, and he has advice for the hopefuls: Stop talking about God. "If voters really cared," he says, "they'd be Republicans."Yikes! Luntz is conservative himself so I'm not sure if this "advice" is genuine, but if this is the case then I hope Christians really understand the big picture. It's true that many moral conservatives are Republican but not every Republican is morally or socially conservative. Republican does not equal Christian, nor should it. When you see a politician with an "R" next to their name, it does NOT automatically mean "religious."
I was listening to the radio today and heard a caller who was a classic "Country-Club Republican," not remotely religious but a fiscal conservative. This woman was calling to defend an economic position that had moral questions surrounding it, but that didn't seem to bother her at all. Unfortunately, many people ask themselves "Does this work (for me)?" before they ever ask "Is this right?"
Christians need to understand that this type of person represents a big chunk of the Republican Party and, as long as we have a two party system, moral and social conservatives will be lumped in with fiscal conservatives and other groups that don't share our values. Democrat Christians from the pre-McGovern era have long-since found themselves abandoned by their party's platform, Republican Christians could easily be in the same boat some day.
Let the voter beware.
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