6/11/2005 10:27:00 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

I've spent the last hour or so watching the DNC meeting on C-SPAN. It's quite educational, and instructive as to the methods advocated and perceived problems of the Democratic Party.

Dean is rather low key, which is unusual. He did mention all fifty states at one point, but, alas, did not name all of them in the fashion for which he is now renowned.

The meeting has focused significantly on faith-based voters. Without saying it directly, it seemed that the consensus was not how Democrats could become more appealing to faith-based voters, but how the faith-based voters are mysterious because they are not acting in their own economic interest. What's the Matter with Kansas? has taken complete hold. The Democratic solution, it seemed, was to show such voters how much they did for them (i.e. handouts), and to cry a resoundingly hollow "We go to church too!" message.

In other words, the DNC believes that Christians who value freedom and vote according to their moral values are stupid. They would have to be to fall for the strategy the Dems seem bent on pursuing. This party is rife with condescension. Kansas is fine - it's this elitist attitude and its expectations of acceptance that mystify me.

The way to appeal to faith-based voters is to be faith-based. You cannot be what you are not.

The Democrats don't get it. This political train wreck will be fun to watch in 2006.

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