"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Sorry to hear that Thompson will not be attending. It could be his key effort to push ahead in the polls.
Shrug. I’m going to support the three candidates I could vote for in a general in the primary. If the party sees it fit to nominate someone else, I’ll merely vote third party. If enough people join me, we’ll win. If not, we won’t. Either way, I won’t be sitting around 5 years down the road whining about a vote I cast.
The same millions and millions of voters that will be watching that no rating having debate?
Maybe we will be lucky and none of them will be the nominee. Farah, is of course, partly right, but I think there is a little more to it than just not wanting to face a few tough questions.
These candidates do not want to be connected with so-called, “religious fundamentalists” or the “religious right”. I have noticed a particular distaste some in the GOP have for these groups. I think some of these groups who have already endorsed one of the top 4 should withdraw their endorsements.
The so-called “values voters” need to get behind a sincere candidate and push him to the top and stop pining after the top 4 who will only take them for granted or indulge them, only, when it is politically expedient to do so.
Well, what are the questions? Or, is that question also forbidden?
It's been wall to wall debates for months now - how may debates must there be?
There had been and will be plenty of opportunity for us all to see and hear the candidates and know where they're coming from - for several more LOOOOOONNNNNGG months.
The debates have turned into little more than dog and pony shows...
1. Do you hate abortion?
2. Do you really, really, REALLY hate abortion?
3. How much do you hate abortion?
4. Do you hate abortion more than anything?
5. Will you appoint judges who hate abortion?
6. Will you appoint judges who really, really, REALLY hate abortion?
6. Do you hate abortion?
...and telling us to take a hike often. We’ve seen duplicates of the Rasmussen Thompson 28% Giuliani 21% post more than often enough to remind us. ...not to mention all of the other mainstream media pumping out rephrased repeats of the same.
...related.
GOP Candidates Snub Social Conservatives
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891776/posts
...another related article.
Evangelicals hesitant about Thompson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1893630/posts
It is the same with Jesse Jackson representing “African-Americans”. He doesn’t.
Represent yourself and be the best witness for God you can be in your own walk. Don’t rely on others to give you what you can find or do for yourself.
Ping to the article.
No, they didn't. They simply decided to not appear in a debate put on by some group that has proclaimed it represents Christian and Jewish voters. Who decided that these folks are our leaders? I'd never heard of this group before last week. They might represent some Christian or Jewish groups, but they no more represent all Christian and Jewish voters anymore than Union leaders represent all union voters.
I will vote for the person who best represents my Christian values, and who can also be elected by the majority of the US electorate. If that person is not the person the Values Voters folks recommend, because that person didn't attend their debate, then, too bad.
A Democratic version of the debate would have been held the following week, except that all candidates declined the invitation…
"Even with two-thirds (19 million) of the evangelical Christian eligible voters sitting on the bench in the last presidential election...
This is why the front runners won't attend. It's not worth the risk. It's a lose/lose situation on the national level, particularly for Fred Thompson for whom this would be the first debate he's participated in. I am not offended by this. I think these debates are a colossal waste of time. Ron Paul is the only one who benefits from them. FDT has stated many times he doesn't like the "debate" format which results in everyone speaking in 3 minute sound bites.
The Dims can pander to moveon.org and gays because they know their voters won't punish them for it. We Christians had better wake up and realize it doesn't matter what a man's position is if he can't get elected. Principles don't make policy. I won't vote for anyone who is pro-choice, but character counts more than statements made 14 months before the general election.
Joseph Farah can make broad statements about the lesser of two evils now that we are three years past the threat of a John Kerry presidency, but the rest of us had better work to get that 2/3 who didn't vote last time into the voting booth in '08, or the Mexicans and Muslims will become the voting block that makes the difference in future. They are pro-life too, but I doubt there is anything else we agree on.
W, for all his warts, is a good, earnest, and God-fearing man. None of the other front-runners, Thompson included, have shown me that they either are made of the right stuff.
Without the folks they’ve dissed by bypassing this debate, these RINOs are nothing but utterly powerless vassals of the Democrats.
Here are some of the good folks that “front runners” are afraid of:
Paul Weyrich, founder and President of the Free Congress Foundation, Phyllis Schlafly, founder and President of Eagle Forum, Don Wildmon, founder and Chairman of the American Family Association, Judge Roy Moore, with the Foundation for Moral Law, Rick Scarborough, Vision America, and Mat Staver of Liberty Council.
Hopefully, the “front runners” won’t be “front runners” for long.