The United States is the only country in history founded, in large part, by people seeking religious freedom; people of different faiths fleeing religious persecution of one form or another. That was the one thing that almost all of the immigrants that came to this country held in common. They had no common language or culture; they left everything and, in some cases, everyone that they had ever known, with little else but their faith, for the abstract, foolish dream of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; to become Americans. It is not now, or has it ever been, possible to separate the American people from their faith. I saw a poll recently that stated 79% of the American people believe in the Immaculate Conception. That’s an extraordinary number; Christians and Muslims share this belief. These people are often referred to as the “Moral Majority”. They are not the “Religious Right”, a pejorative term meant to redirect attention away from the immorality of the atheist left.

Morality, as defined by Webster’s dictionary, is simply the ability to discern between or make decisions based on what’s right and what’s wrong. Partial birth abortion is wrong; abortion on demand is wrong; having your intern give you oral sex in the Oval Office is wrong. These aren’t positions held exclusively by the so called “Religious Right”; they are fundamental to the basic beliefs of MOST Americans. This morality is, without question, based in large part on the religious culture of America. The Republican Party comfortably embraces this culture. Today’s Democratic Party embraces moral relativism and secular humanism; tenants fundamental to communism, socialism and atheism; tenants that are completely unacceptable and immoral in the eyes of MOST Americans, including most Democrats, but not the democratic leadership and their very vocal minority; not by the socialist democracies of western Europe who ridicule the ignorant Americans for continuing to cling to their quaint and outdated faith. The 2004 presidential election was a rejection of the moral relativism and secular humanism embraced by the Democratic Party and the EU and a reaffirmation of the traditional American, faith based morality embraced by the Republican Party and, in reality, MOST Americans. Case in point, eleven states had same-sex marriage referendums on their ballots; they were all defeated, by the majority of the electorate in those states, Republicans and Democrats; not by those hideous villains that the liberal media writes at length about; “The Religious Right”.

Are there hyper-moralist/religious people in our country? Sure. Are they a constituency of the Republican Party? Some are, but not a large constituency. Did they re-elect George W. Bush? They helped, but Evangelical Christians accounted for roughly 4% of the Bush vote, just as they did in the 2000 election. The more significant differences between the 2000 and 2004 election is that the Hispanic vote and the women’s vote each accounted for about 4% of the Bush vote. The African-American vote for Bush, though statistically only increasing from 9 to 11% compared to the 2000 vote, actually increased 100% in real numbers because of the record voter turnout. Most Hispanics are Catholics; the majority of African-Americans are church going people of faith. Their religious based morality would simply not allow many of them to vote for the Democratic Party.

They didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the Party left them. Zel Miller, the Democrat who held the offices of Governor and Senator from the state of Georgia and who gave the keynote speech at the 2004 Republican Convention, wrote a book entitled “A National Party No More”. It does a great job of describing how today’s Democratic Party is no longer the party of Kennedy or LBJ; it has jerked sharply to the left. The “Moral Majority” responded to this left turn of the Democratic Party by electing a Republican President and adding to the Republican majority in both houses of congress…again in 2004. The post election punditry was almost unanimous in their characterization of the 2004 election as the election of values; the American people chose the values, and morals, embraced by the Republican Party; not those embraced by the Democratic Party, now in disarray, or the socialists of Europe. The Europeans, in their arrogance, asked in disbelief; “How can 60 million people be so dumb?” I say, God Bless those 60 million Americans that were paying attention to this country's incremental slide into a socialist, secular democracy…and stopped it. Now it’s time to reverse the damage that the socialists have done to our country, starting with our activist, leftist judiciary.

While I concede that the right side of the Republican Party may, at least in part, be the political home of Evangelical Christians, the left side of the Democratic Party is demonstrably occupied by the American Communist Party, the American Socialist Party refugees from the Green Party and other assorted haters of our capitalist republic; committed, visceral haters of America...the new base of the Democratic Party.

Socialism is not a sustainable economic model. It has little or no incentive for innovation and growth. Those who promote a socialist economic model for America are, literally and in a very tangible way, advocating the destruction of our country; France, and others in the EU, who fancy themselves as the counterweight to the American juggernaut, would love to see the demise of America; this country of mutts and the bourgeois class…it kills France that we are the world’s Super Power…and that’s just too bad.

Patrick Delohery