We must not let our preoccupation with enemies outside the camp blind us to the enemies within. An enemy in the camp can cut our throats, poison our food, or engineer a 'palace coup' - a coup which could be far worse in the long run than the temporary victory of an enemy from without. We must cast out our own demons, then focus on the Democrats.
Got that Rooty Rooters? First we make sure the GOP nominates a pro-life candidate, THEN we defeat the 'Rat.
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Amen.
OK, but Huckabee is a tax and spend liberal, and Mitt is a gun controller and big-state guy who put Hillarycare into place in Mass. That leaves Fred as the only pure-enough candidate I guess, but he isn’t running much of a campaign. Hmm.
Are there any Rooty Rooters left here?
It's a question of personal image. Those photos and, on the web, the video, have blasted his image as a serious leader. I.e., those injure his image as "Presidential".
Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger learned how important public image is from their Hollywood days and so zealously guarded their public image as politicians.
Rudolph Giuliani never understood this, and that is hurting him badly. It may cost him the nomination.
So far Mitt Romney alone of the major candidates comes across as "Presidential", and his care with that image may well put him in the White House.
Huckabee - no; Fred - yes. That's all you need to know for now.
Randall Terry?!!! Gotta be kidding!
He’s sooooo 1980’s.
Oh, and I like Rudy (Fred, too)
This obsession with whatever candidate the two political parties are marketing this week or next misses the bigger picture. Our primary job as Christians is not to act as unpaid support squadrons for one or the other of these politicians.
Let’s take infanticide as an issue to expand on what I’m talking about. Say that one or another of these politicians actually had a snowballs chance of reversing Roe v Wade. I don’t think that any of them actually do, but let’s say for the sake of discussion that they not only could obtain a reversal of Roe v Wade, but would. I would agree that reversing Roe v Wade would be a wonderful thing and a great step forward. However, infanticide in the U.S. would not end. Those who were strongly inclined to kill their unborn children would still find a means to do so; legal or otherwise.
So I ask the question: what is the more effective means to obtain the end of infanticide; partisan politics or working to change the hearts and minds of those who would engage in the practice? I think that some combination of both is necessary, but the extent to which many Christian conservatives overly emphasize the partisan politics aspect is obsessive and self-defeating. And it’s not just infanticide, it’s other hot-button issues such as marriage and education. “If only we were to elect XYZ candidate or political party the problems would go away.” Well, the history of Christian conservatism for the last 20 or so years would indicate otherwise.
To conclude, I prefer to call things what they are. This obsession with the partisan political melodrama on the part of many Christian conservatives is bordering on idolatry.
And who is that Pro-life candidate. There’s only two True Conservative, Pro-life candidates that I know of “for sure”; that’s Thompson and Hunter. I guess Huckabee is Pro-life but he’s not Conservative.
Most folks don’t know that many in the Southern Baptist Convention do not like Huckabee because he always chose sides with the moderate wing of the denomination against the conservative wing.