Posted on 10/17/2006 5:49:07 AM PDT by Hadean
"Jesus wasn’t riding an elephant into town" There would probably be more believers if more Christians thought this way. I am grateful for the many GOP leaders have done to fight for Christian values in America. Although fine Americans such as Billy Graham,Dr. D. James Kennedy Tony Evans, Joel Osteen, Don Wildmon, Dr. D. James Kennedy, Tony Perkins, Phyllis Schlafly, T.D. Jakes, James Dobson, Franklin Graham, John Hagee, Pat Robertson, Ron Parsaly, Ron Phillips and others have fought the fight as well for the pro-family movement. We all have scars to prove it.
But it is time to build an ark. It is time to leave the Republican Party.
I know that seems like a radical move. But it has become increasingly apparent that the core values of the Republican Party are not Tennessean or Christian values. The Mark Foley Branch of the Log Cabin Republicans has seen to that.
The Republican Party has had success convincing Christians that their party actually is more moral and more sincerely religious than the Democrats. However, the events of the last year have begun to unravel that carefully constructed image. It is time all Christians to ask ourselves if it is possible for God to bless a polluted party.
Make no mistake, the Republican Party is polluted. I have found that out locally here in Bradley County. It's obvious to me that both the Republicans and the leaders of the Religious Right are contemptuous of rank and file conservative Christians, not each other. By forming a new party we cast a new direction united and committed to do the work together. I fear the Mark Foley scandal is only a small part of the problem.
So now is the time to form our own party. It is exactly what this country needs at a time like this, controlling spending, undoing and preventing liberal damage, and presenting a noble and honest agenda. While we still have the influence to do it we must take action. Remember how quickly people got behind Ross Perot? Can’t our Christian leaders like a Ron Phillips do the same? We have the resources and the network. It is time to stop wasting them on Republicanism, even at the local level.
There's a vacuum to be filled in the evangelical leadership by preachers and leaders who eschew worldly, political power for its own sake. The world has gotten smaller. The power of the internet has changed the way Americans communicate. With one click of a mouse, millions can be alerted to truth. A network of churches and ministries already exists. We can override the lunacy of television ads, without spending a dime.
If we focus now on 2008, here is how we can do it:
· Begin now to build the network of partnerships of those who espouse Christian values. Much of it is already in place.
· Draft a quality Christian leader as the 2008 presidential candidate. One that has proven his mettle. We begin working for this election now. Work to get them on the ballot in all fifty states. Stay out of the Republican primary. Build a war-chest for the general election.
· Begin a training program for future candidates in Constitutional government as it relates to God-ordained freedoms. Train up men who will not compromise for personal gain. Courageous men who stand in the face of the anti-god establishment. Men who will restore Constitutional government. Men in the tradition of Madison and Washington. In two years we will have a group of God-fearing men to run in local races.
· Hire experts to create PAC’s that will support the candidates giving opportunities for Christians to donate to Godly candidates, rather than compromised Republicans. Thumb your nose at the IRS. Would Jesus be silent on the great moral issues of the day because he was afraid of losing His tax-exempt status?
· Give no money to Republican or Democratic candidates - only those who join the new party.
· Offer current, God-fearing officials an alternative to status quo politics, and offer an alternative party for them to join.
Things are not looking good for Republicans. It is time to abandon ship, to build an ark, to raise the standard. Republicanism is making Christianity look bad. The Republican leadership mocks us and throws crumbs from the table during election years.
America needs bold new leadership. Christians still have the influence to pull it off. But we must be willing to give up our ceremonial seat at the Republican table? With leadership comes responsibility and the Lord will hold us all accountable for the compromising of His standards.
The detractors will tell us a third-party can’t win, that we will only divide the vote, that Hillary will be president. She might well be. I say God will do something great if we honor His name and His ways. Matthew 19:6 "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
So, America, who will you choose to believe?
Greg Cain GCAIN14@aol.com
You forgot the barf alert.
Ross Perot = Bill Clinton
Shall we do it again?
- at the top of the dems wish list.
Not all RATS are Democrats, it seems.
what a moron.........
I see visions of the 92 Election
No thanks
And it's way past time for Christians to leave the Democrat Party, or forget the phony notion that one can be a follower of Jesus and vote for killing babies, homosexual marriage, and taking from the wage-earner to give to the indolent. This writer obviously avoided that part of the story, and thus becomes suspect as part of the msm conservative vote-suppression scheme. There will be countless others before Nov. 7.
No serious missteps in the "lingo," so this isn't a leftist Sojourner, hiding under the mantle of Christianity. He doesn't seem to think that we're delaying the Apocalypse, like K. A. Paul, either. Sounds like an advocate for the Constitution Party. Wonder why he doesn't come right out and say that?
It would be so much smarter for Evangelicals to vote third party or Democrat. /sarcasm
They can live with the partial birth abortion results. The support for pedophiles. The cut and run policy and gutting our military. Maybe they'll actually enjoy paying higher taxes. Wearing a burka. Having the homosexual agenda taught to their children in public schools.
I say go for it. They're whining about not getting everything they want in life and in politics is really childish.
Divide and conquer?
Go peddle that tripe at DU.
I'd rather bring salt and light to the imperfect GOP.
I don't know who this is or what his motives are, but I expect this is something we will see often in the upcoming weeks. The media/DEMs love to plant these kind of stories to try to force the results they wanted from the Foley story but did not get.
No Christian or conservative is going to allow Democrats - the leaders of the anti-christian movement - to come to power because some knob tried to hit on an 18-21 yr old kid. I expect to see all kinds of these popping up in local newspapers. It's part of the DEM stomp out the vote drive. IT's pathetic that the Democrats think the only way they can come ot power is to lower our turnout rather than trying to put forth an agenda and being elected because the people actually want that agenda.
The have none, and we won't support it. Hence, they have no agenda other than get back into power and make decisions based on their "feelings" that particular day or based on whose chewing their ear and threatning to not vote for them. Apologies to this guy if it's heart felt, but not biting...if God wanted us to build an Ark, he'd let us know...don't you think? And not from a guy named "Cain"
Yeah this seems just one more attempt by the MSM to get Christians to avoid voting this year.
As a Christian, I will vote Republican, every time, every race, until such time as I see a better way to fight abortion.
This article doesn't even mention the word, so I'm not on the same page at all.
Make that a "Mega" Barf Alert.
If these fools/idiots want to insure/assure a Rat victory in 08, this is a guaranteed strategery.
The Pubes (and I'm not one, simply a Conservative who has yet to meet a Conservative DimoRat, thus I usually vote R) may have some problems, however, they pale in comparison to the Dhimis.
Go ahead you sanctimonious A-Holes, shoot yourself in the foot and see how it feels to limp and lament for the next 4, 8 or 12 years.
And I think it's time for ALL THINKING AFRICAN AMERICANS AND JEWISH PEOPLE to run as fast as they can from the DEMOCRAT party.
So, Jesus would have been promoting gay marriages and murdering of unborn children... that's disgusting!
Cain = Democrat
This is just more GOTV electioneering.
Sorry but the Democrat Party is the party of homosexuals, deviants, and tax fanatics. Pelosi would have made Foley a boy scout advisor AFTER the IM's came out about his child cultivation.
This is more Rev. Walis BS to trying a co-op conservatives out of the republican party by false assumptions.
If the left understood christians, they would not be the left any more.
They're s/b their
Is this written by a Democrat?
Just exactly who would this person vote for in the election this year? Someday Christ will be king, but until then we need the candidate that holds the values closest to christian values and its usually a Republican.
No ... now is NOT the time. Talk to me after the November election.
Some of the points sound good, but we remember all too well what happened when we got behind perot. Won't make that mistake again!
Get a good Christian leader?? I think we're all for that...who might THAT be???
I learned a long time ago you don't win by losin!!
When the Democrats switch to the "Hammer and Sickle" as their true symbol, the Republicans can consider using a donkey if that is really, really important.
I don't think I'm going to listen to some dork from Cleveland, TN about my party affiliation. He only has a job writing because the Dalton carpet mills wouldn't have him.
Gee, Mr. Cain how much is nancy pelosi paying you? She ain't gdetting any value for her money.
So Christians, such as myself, should form a seperate political party, huh? And, what 60 or 70 percent of people in this post-Christian country won't view this as people trying to impose a theocracy? And the MSM won't drive home the slander about this party being the jihad party?
A national political party created in mere months and being on the ballot in 50 states AND have a credible candidate in time for the 2008 presidential race??? Pfft.
This article would be more credible if the author hadn't relied on the Foley case as the fulcrum for his treatise. Also, what about calling on all the Catholics to leave the Donky Party. How can Catholics be Democrats who support abortion??
"Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written:
"'He will command his angels concerning you,
and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"
Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'"
--Matthew 4:5-7, NIV
Horse sh%%
Who do they propose? The elfin Gary Bauer? No thanks. When he learns how to flip a pancake.....maybe he can try again.
No, buddy, you wish. It's a binary system. Humans are imperfect. You can't get out of the system.
Rock salt to the posterior and a blinding light in the face...but stick with the GOP. The alternative is unacceptable.
I'll say! There is this strain of weirdos that has infiltrated the Pubbie Party. These IDiac/Creationoid Trolls are doing their best to destroy and discredit not only the Party but Western Society with their crap. They are Evil people, spreading a lie to the uneducated, easily conned, nincompoops in the Pubbie Party.
Good riddance!
Yup, great way to eliminate any political influence whatsoever...
Who is this idiot, and why does he want democrats to control our country?
FWIW - I was talking to my sister recently. She cites Foley as a reason to sit out the election.
Me? I think my Mom and sister are good examples of why we shouldn't have given women the right to vote...
"Someday Christ will be king, but until then we need the candidate that holds the values closest to christian values and its usually a Republican."
Actually, Christ IS King... it's only that people don't know it yet.
Imagine how much traction this would get if there was no new media.
If the MSM had the unfettered power to supress the vote with thise propaganda lie stories?
scarry.
A republican house and a republican senate is not just a vote against the democrats it will DEVASTATE THE MSM.
They have pulled out all the stops
put in all the spin
bias without mercy
and yet they still are unable to tilt public voting?! I means NOBODY relevate pays attention to them. Something advertisers don't want to hear after spending so much money.
No...it's time for SATAN to leave the DEMOCRATIC PARTY !!!
then your mom and sister are in the 4% (compared to 96%) who say foley is irrelevant and they will vote.
Who the heck is this moron? I've never heard of him.
It may be time to support from without, not within but forming another party is Arkancide.
There are some bad Republicans. There are no good Democrats.
Who is this guy..... Well he ran in the Republican primary for the TN HD 24 seat and was soundly rejected by the voters in that district. He is the candidate with 630 votes in this list of five who were running [last place]....
2,886.. 630 ..1,676.. 1,144.. 1,022
http://www.state.tn.us/sos/election/results/2006-08/repth133.pdf
http://www.tfponline.com/absolutenm/templates/election2006.aspx?articleid=2986&zoneid=66
"Republican Kevin Brooks raised $14,454.65 in the second quarter, records showed. Greg Cain raised $76, Garry D. Moore reported $2,000, Hale Roe raised $5,500 and Michael Willis reported $5,475, records showed."
LOL
I have a problem with the federal government/courts telling local communities they have to put up with a strip joint in the middle of their small town.
Communities should be able to determine their own standards by a majority vote, as long as it doesn't infringe on the civil rights of individuals. And....ummmmmmm..... I don't believe that dancing naked around a pole is protected free speech. :) I used the above example, but it extends to a lot more than strip joints, obviously.
Sorry all, but I'm not barfing. Both parties are unacceptable as far as I'm concerned. I will not vote Republican out of fear ever again. Why Mr. President are millions of babies still being slaughtered every year? The blood is on many hands but, where does the buck stop? I don't have the will however to work on starting up a "Christian" party, I'm holding fast to Jesus for on HIS SHOULDERS OUR GOVERNMENT WILL SOON REST, thank God. This is wisdom: whosoever honors Him He also will honor. This country cannot exist without His grace but we continue to flaunt lies and pride in His face. Doomsdayer? No, Believer would better state it.
Hey, just because some women are stupid doesn't mean we all are.
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