Re: Wierd

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carrol Cox wrote:

> There is no evidence that "moral values" had the remotest impact on the
> election. It was simply a slogan people who were going to vote
> Republican in any case grabbed on to as a simple way of explaining their
> choice. Had the subject of moral values never been raised the election
> returns would have been the same.

Given the history of the US, the counterfactual in your last sentence
is almost completely untethered from reality. But are you seriously
claiming that the Chritisan right has no influence on American
politics and the Bush administration?

Doug