With all due respect, if your candidate is voting to extinguish the lives 
of millions of innocent Americans, nothing much else matters to a pro-life 
voter. You may call it a smoke screen, but it does not cloud up the issue 
of the lives of unborn innocents.

Peggy Murdock

At 03:10 PM 6/13/2005, you wrote:
>I have seen reference to a book that has a title, something like:  The 
>Kansas Effect.  The book suggests that certain issues such as prolife and 
>gay marriage are used by conservatives for misdirection and distraction 
>for the masses.  If you are all fired up about those issues, you likely 
>are not paying attention to the tax code changes, the fact that your work 
>place is less safe, your environment is more polluted, you lost your 
>health insurance, etc.  In effect they are misdirections for the masses by 
>politcians with an economic agenda for the wealthy and 
>corporations.  Hence, there really cannot be  a prolife and proenvironment 
>politician (regardless of the words that may come from the politicians 
>mouth).    I've read reports of religous, proenvironment groups that 
>believe we should be taking care of God's earth, and they are stunned that 
>there politicans don't understand their environmental concerns.  Do I 
>believe that politics is this cynical.  Yes, in an instant.  Lanny Schwartz
>
>P.S.  I wanted to be brief, and I realize there is a bit of sterotyping in 
>the above.  L.S.
>
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