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spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America—there’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the Stars and Stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

I hope someday to see that young lady again and find out if she kept her promise. And if she did, I’d like to raise a glass with her to a more united America, an America where books like this one aren’t necessary, but still sell millions of copies.

But if she didn’t keep her promise, she’s just another typical Republican.

7 How Bush Won:

Queers

As much as I like and admire John Kerry, I have to admit he made some pretty tone-deaf, even boneheaded mistakes in the 2004 campaign. Why on earth, for example, would he pay good money to generate automated calls to African-American voters in Michigan claiming that voting for him would help legalize gay marriage? Here’s what the calls said, according to the Detroit Free Press:

When you vote this Tuesday, remember to legalize gay marriage by supporting John Kerry. It’s what we all want. It’s a basic Democratic principle.

I don’t know what numbskull got the idea that the best way to use campaign funds was to make these robo-calls. Especially to people who were probably going to vote for Kerry already, but who, sophisticated polling had shown, were particularly hostile to gay marriage. And why do it the weekend before the election? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!

It was almost as dumb as the automated phone calls telling Michigan Democrats that their polling places had changed when they really hadn’t. That’s just crazy!

But believe it or not, those robo-calls weren’t the Kerry team’s biggest blunder of the campaign season. That had to be Kerry’s moronic pledge to ban the Bible. The Bible! The holiest book not just of Judaism, but of Christianity as well. Why offend almost everyone in the country?!

The Bush camp wasted no time in capitalizing on that misstep. Here’s the flyer the Republican National Committee sent to religious voters in the swing states of Arkansas and West Virginia:

Above: A mailing from the Republican National Committee.

Notice how the RNC picked up on the gay marriage theme, too. Kerry just played into their hands by wanting to ban the Bible and by supporting gay marriage. It’s hard to think of anything that would alienate traditional religious voters more. My goodness!

But Kerry wasn’t content to use just phone calls and mailings to communicate his radical, secularist, homosexual agenda to religious voters. No, he went so far as to actually pay openly gay AIDS activists—from San Francisco!—to mince up and down lines of black voters in Fort Lauderdale carrying colorful signs touting the Kerry-Edwards team’s support for gay adoption. And couldn’t he at least have stopped them from yelling, “Vote for Kerry, Support Gay Marriage!” over and over again? I mean, that’s so gay!

It’s almost too stupid to be believed, but here’s a photo:

Republicans pose as San Francisco gay activists outside of a Fort Lauderdale polling place.

The dumbest part about all of this is that Kerry didn’t even support gay marriage. As you know, Kerry has had a consistent, if in my view misguided, opposition to equal marriage rights for all Americans. He supports civil unions for same-sex couples, but not full-fledged marriage. And yet here he was pouring all