Christ is not a Strategy

Christ is not a Strategy

Believing that he has the anti-nativity scene wing of the Democratic Party locked up, Howard Dean is going after the faithful.

"MANCHESTER, N.H. — Howard B. Dean, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination who had said little about the role of religion in politics, yesterday told the Boston Globe that he is a committed follower of Jesus Christ and suggested that this would be a winning campaign issue.
Mr. Dean said he will start mentioning God and Christ as the campaign moves into the South."

Although Dean rarely attends religious services and quit his previous church in a dispute over a bike path, he insists that he has faith.

More probably, he has faith in the polls which tell him that, "An ABC/Washington Post poll released this week showed that 46 percent of Southerners say a president should rely on his religious beliefs in making policy decisions, compared with 28 percent in the East and 40 percent in the rest of the nation."