The (GOP)party faithful hear the campaign's prayers

[papau]

http://www.calendarlive.com/cl-et-oconnor3sep03,0,6048415.story
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
The party faithful hear the campaign's prayers
By Anne-Marie O'Connor
Times Staff Writer

Sep 3 2004

NEW YORK — As the last strains of "Dixie" died down, conservative legislators and convention delegates grew quietly reverential, and everyone at the crowded lunch solemnly bowed their heads as a fresh-faced young priest led them in a special prayer — to ask God to guide the presidential elections.

"Lord, we pray that your people may be awakened," said Father Frank Pavone at the event, which honored anti-abortion activists. "Awaken them, that the same hands lifted up to you in prayer are the hands that pull the lever in the voting booth…. And that they do not cease to be Christians when they enter the voting booth."

And when they get in the voting booth?

"If I could ask one thing of you this election cycle," Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback told the crowd, "it is to get George W. Bush reelected. To win this country, we've got to get more votes in the Senate and George W. Bush back in office.

"And we need your prayers. Pray, pray, pray. You move the hand of God."<snip>

[kerryin2004]

1. Good for them..

I am sure we will now see a more christian type of campaign.. These people are going to set a great example of how to act civil and talk issues.. No more demeaning a war vets injuries, no more hate filled name calling, and no more angry rhetoric like we saw on Wed.. I prayed that the republicans would take a more christian outlook in their campaign and it looks like those prayers came true!

[Jo March]

2. "Dixie"? "Dixie"? Please tell me they didn't play "Dixie"

I think that my head may truly explode. Truly and utterly explode right here on my desk.