The Shifting Sands of US Politics

When Bush went to Calvin College I'm sure that Rove didn't think that this Christian School would pose any problems. However the International Herald Tribune has an interesting article detailing the visit.

Calvin College, a small evangelical school in the strategic Republican stronghold of Grand Rapids, Michigan...
...A number of students, faculty and alumni objected so strongly to the president's visit that by last Friday nearly 800 of them had signed a letter of protest that appeared as a full-page ad in The Grand Rapids Press. The letter said, in part: "Your deeds, Mr. President - neglecting the needy to coddle the rich, desecrating the environment and misleading the country into war - do not exemplify the faith we live by."...

"The monologue of the religious right is over," Wallis said in an interview before Bush's appearance. "There is a progressive, moderate evangelical constituency that is huge." Read More...

I feel that this shows the inevitable swing of American politics back away from the far right that has dominated for the last 20 some odd years. I believe that history will show that the right and Neo-Conservatives hit their high water mark with the 2004 election and things start moving away from them. Hopefully before they do too much more damage to America.

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