Jesus came knocking today....its all about the Scriptures, stupid!

I am not sure if anyone just caught Crossfire today, but I think Jessie Jackson and Paul Begala have figured out how to appeal to the religious moral value crowd. I found their attacks brillant....the ex-head of the Christian Coalition was stuttering and stammering at Begalas frontal assault, which was this:

Begala (and Jackson, though Begala was in major  attack mode) started quoting scripture from the book of Matthew of things Jesus taught; "... give to the poor ... if you are weatlhy give all your possesions to the poor and then you will find the Kingdom of God" - compassion type writings. Begala asked how it was "Christian" to give tax breaks to the wealthy and take them from the poor. The Christian Coalition guy could't answer!! He fell all over himself with some sidetrack answer ("I am not a preacher, I cant answer that....").

This is their achilles heel with the fundammentalists - and Begala found it. There needs to be be a litmus test on every bill that comes through. Every bill should be challenged on "how is this advancing a Christian value?". None of Bush's policies will qualify; "Killing 100,000 innocent Iraqi's? Explain to me how this is moral" - Begala barked at the CC man. The man couldnt answer and dodged once again. If one of their guys says "well this bill doesnt push forward Christian values" - you have the sound bite you need. If they try to spin it we continue on this litmus test of Scripture, and hold them to the scripture.

We are reality based - fundamentalists are Bible based. If we can hold the administration up to the "Bible test" on every policy Bush pushes through - alot of his base will not "believe" in him any more because he's ignoring scripture. Add to this the fact that some denominations will accept his answers, and this could spark battles between the different factions. This is why they fought amongst themselves and split in the first place - we'll help them do it again! We dont have to convince many to see alot of Blue in 2006. .