They Knew What "he" (<--big time asshole) Was Saying About "HIM"

The New York Times > Week in Review > Code for Vote for Me: Speaking in the Tongue of Evangelicals: "By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

Published: October 17, 2004
(T)O liberal lawyers and history buffs, it was a head-scratcher. Did President Bush mean to oppose slavery by pledging in the presidential debates not to appoint the kind of Supreme Court justices who decided the Dred Scott case, the 1857 decision that upheld the fugitive slave law?
To conservative Christian opponents of abortion, Mr. Bush's reference was clear as a bell: opposing Dred Scott is shorthand for opposing Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established abortion rights. One day, many social conservatives assert, Roe v. Wade, just like Dred Scott, will be overturned as an erroneous violation of basic human rights.
'We have used that comparison for years and years and years,' said Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The potential double meaning rekindled speculation among Mr. Bush's critics that he communicates with his conservative Christian base with a dog-whistle of code words and symbols, deliberately incomprehensible to secular liberals.
During his State of the Union speech last year, Mr. Bush famously borrowed the words 'wonder-working power' from a familiar evangelical Protestant hymn about the power in the blood of the Lamb. And many observers said they saw the distinct image of a cross on the podium at the Republican National Convention.
'Mr. Subliminal, Call Your Office,' ran the headline on the front page of The New York Sun during the convention."
Link...