These two articles were posted in GD:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3755829&mesg_id=3755829But their special relevance to elections made me have to reference them here, along with these juicy, creepy excerpts. Like any good DU-trained fraud researcher, I read between the lines and assume more than prayer is implied. The Ukraine mobilization was certainly a well-coordinated effort that involved the State Department, and --who knew? -- a "Christian" sister church in the Ukraine!
This is from the second article, "Soldiers of Christ":
http://www.harpers.org/SoldiersOfChrist.html#3-anchorsnip---
“There was,” Pastor Ted said one afternoon in his office, “a significant influence exerted on the last election by Colorado Springs.” He was meeting with me and another reporter, an Australian from a financial paper.
“You mean,” the Australian asked, “almost like a force going out from Colorado Springs?”
A force—Pastor Ted liked that. He smiled and offered other examples. His favorite was the Ukraine, where, he claimed, a sister church to New Life had led the protests that helped sweep the pro-Western candidate into power. Kiev is, in fact, home to Europe’s largest evangelical church, and over the last dozen years the Ukrainian evangelical population has grown more than tenfold, from 250,000 to 3 million. According to Ted, it was this army of Christian capitalists that took to the streets. “They’re pro-free markets, they’re pro-private property,” he said. “That’s what evangelical stands for.”
snip---
Three years ago, in the 2002 elections, Christian conservatives swept Georgia, the last Democratic bastion in the South. They toppled an incumbent Democratic governor, a war-hero Democratic senator, the state House speaker, the Democratic leader of the state Senate, and his son, the Democratic candidate for Congress in a majority black district that state Democrats had drawn up especially for him. The new Republican senator, Saxby Chambliss, and the new governor, Sonny Perdue, both conservatives and Christian, won not on “moral values” but on an exurban platform. The mastermind behind the coup was Ralph Reed, once of the Christian Coalition, who had been reborn as Georgia’s Republican chairman. Reed remains a fundamentalist, the same man who once tested employees’ commitment to “Christian values” by asking them if they supported the death penalty for adultery, but he was too canny to talk like that in public. The term “Christian,” he’d learned, is a “divider,” not a “unifier,” so he had left overt faith behind. He backed candidates who ran under the mantra of the exurbs: “Shorter commutes. More time with family. Lower mortgages.”
--snip
So, not only do they have powerful juju, they are adept at manipulating reality on many levels, beginning with a well-constructed mythic hook, which is what people are so hungry for.
But for our purposes here, we need to factor into our fraud equations or plausible scenarios how they could have been instrumental as perpetrators of the fraud.
Edited to add:
After all, the article begins by stating that this pastor talks to Bush and his advisors weekly.
As for what happened in Georgia, if the anti-gay marriage tripe of 2004 is any indicator, they look for values to appeal to a few and then use it as an excuse as to why they won the election. One thing we know about the Rethugs is that they make a plan and then stick with it. Just like Gore Vidal pointed out the obvious--they used the same blueprint in 2004 as they used in 2000, it's just that they had had four years to perfect it.
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