The pimp and the president
Posted: June 10, 2005
1:00 am Eastern
By Joseph Farah© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
By Joseph Farah© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
In the 2004 presidential election, exit polls showed 22 percent of voters cited "moral values" as the one issue that mattered most when considering how to vote.
More voters cited moral values than the economy (20 percent), terrorism (19 percent), or Iraq (17 percent). Across the nation, and particularly in key battleground states, the perception that George W. Bush stood for traditional, Judeo-Christian moral values helped him overcome staggering losses among voters who cared primarily about Iraq and the economy.
Among those who cited moral values as their top priority, Bush defeated Kerry 79-18. The numbers were dramatic in Ohio, the state that ensured Bush's victory.
Self-described white evangelical, born-again voters represented 25 percent of the Ohio electorate and supported Bush by a 76-24 margin. Jobs were the key concern for Ohio voters (24 percent), but the moral issues contingent was right behind (23 percent). Much like the rest of the country, these morally minded voters supported Bush 85-14.
But Bush doesn't have to face re-election any more.
So, apparently, he is no longer concerned about perceptions.
Next week he will thank those voters who returned him to office by breaking bread and rubbing shoulders with a hard-core pornographer and a porn star who forked over $5,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee for a two-day fete in Washington.
The pornographer, Mark Kulkis, president of Kick-A-- Pictures, is boasting that he was personally invited to the 2005 President's Dinner and is boasting that his presence there will "make pop culture history."
He and his escort, Mary Carey, who hopes to parlay her career in the oldest profession into a one in the second oldest, politics, are using the appearance with Bush, congressional leaders, Karl Rove and other Republican heavyweights to hype their "industry."
Kulkis, by the way, also serves as honorary chairman on the NRCC's Business Advisory Council, a group which describes itself as a "small, prestigious group of conservative businessmen and women."
"We will try to use your name whenever possible in both our national and local advertising," the NRCC explains to those interested in membership.
Kulkis says porn is going mainstream in America and he apparently finds the association with the governing party in America to be advantageous to his own business pursuits.
Once again, this symbolic and gratuitous gesture by the Republicans – flipping off those who brought them to power – illustrates why Americans really have no political choices between the two major parties.
What's the alternative to the party of Howard Dean, who contends the GOP is exclusively for "white Christians"? What's the alternative to the party of Barney Frank, who ran a male prostitution ring out of his congressional office, and the lying, duplicitous and arrogant Hillary Rodham Clinton? What's the alternative to the treasonous antics of John Kerry's party?
It's a party that prostitutes itself by taking money from an industry that demeans men and women as sex objects and poisons the minds and souls of Americans for profit.
More disturbing still, perhaps, is the way so many die-hard Republicans and so-called "conservatives" have responded to this ugly crass money grab by the GOP. Silence. Or worse yet, defense!
The spokesman for the NRCC, Carl Forti, told WND: "They've paid their money. No matter what they do, the money is going to go to help elect Republicans to the House."
Would the Republicans take money from anyone? Would they take money from neo-Nazi skinheads who coughed up $5,000? Would they take money from environmental polluters or just polluters of our moral eco-system? Would they take money from mobsters? Maybe so, since the mob is known to be a major backer of pornography.
Millions of Americans may realize that morality is essential to good governance. But they have nowhere to turn to express themselves politically – at least not within either of the two major parties.
Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. His latest book is "None of the Above: Why 2008 is the year to cast the ultimate protest vote." He also edits the online intelligence newsletter Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, in which he utilizes his sources developed over 30 years in the news business
