Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

A question of values

Washington Times Editorial:

It stunned the Democrats and many in the media, but it shouldn't have. Voters who care about moral values delivered the election to President Bush. Even with an uncertain economy and problems in Iraq, Mr. Bush rode social conservatism to victory. In a Wednesday-morning chin-pulling session, CNN anchor Bill Hemmer turned to his ex-politico colleague Carlos Watson and asked earnestly, "Why has the country gone so far in the conservative direction?" The truth is that the country was already there. It's just that the liberal media elites never realized it.
The exit polls couldn't have been clearer. They showed that more voters think moral values — that is, the vaunted "God, guns and gays" questions — are the most important question facing the nation than think the same about the state of the economy, the terrorist threat or the Iraq war. Regaining competitiveness with this group will be the Democrats' great generational challenge in the years to come. But it's far from clear that the Democrats even understand their problem, much less how to fix it.

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The problem doesn't belong exclusively to the Democrats, of course; the media owns it, too. It's telling that in the weeks before the election, pollsters didn't even include "moral values" as an option when questioning likely voters. The ABC News/Washington Post poll listed the economy, terrorism, Iraq, health care, education, and "other" as the options. Under that formula, 10 percent chose "other." A plurality of the "other" contingent listed abortion, stem cell research, gay "marriage," religion or moral issues as the supreme concern.

Jusst as it was a mistake to push policy issues on abortion through the court system instead of the political system, it was a mistake for gays to push their "marriage" agenda through the courts. The result was to energize voters who reject the gay agenda. This was a wedge issue tht the gays created themselves and it has backfired big time for their supporters in the Democrat party.