Posted on 08/08/2008 7:58:45 AM PDT by WilliamReading
CBSNews.com: So, Tom Ridge, who's been discussed. You think …
Richard Land: That would be a catastrophe.
CBSNews.com: Who’s on the list of people mentioned for VP that you think would most excite Southern Baptists and other members of the conservative faith community?
Richard Land: Probably Governor Palin of Alaska, because she's a person of strong faith. She just had her fifth child, a Downs Syndrome child. And there's a wonderful quote that she gave about her baby, and the fact that she would never, ever consider having an abortion just because her child had Downs Syndrome. She's strongly pro-life.
CBSNews.com: And what about Mitt Romney?
Richard Land: I think Mitt Romney would be an excellent choice. There are people in the evangelical community who would have a problem with his Mormonism. I am not one of them. I mean, I'm very clear that I do not believe Mormonism is a Christian faith. But that does not disqualify someone from being President or Vice President. And my guess would be that, probably, about 15 to 20 percent of the evangelical community would have a problem with his Mormonism.
I'll tell you another choice that I think would ring a lot of bells among evangelical and Catholic social conservatives, and I think could have some real electoral punch to it, is Eric Cantor, the congressman from Richmond. He's the fourth highest person in the House leadership. He is a conservative, observant Jew, a one hundred percent pro-life voting record. And if he picked Cantor, that would probably help hold Virginia. And it would increase McCain's percentage of the Jewish vote in Florida and Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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How many people care what Richard Land thinks? Just thought it was interesting his high regard for Cantor.
I don’t think that Palin and McCain would be a good team. I have barely seen the two together.
Tom Ridge and John McCain are out on the trail together today . . .uh-oh . . . Wonder what they will be talking about???
Who’s Richard Land?
He is a big honcho with the Southern Baptists.
All hat and no cattle?
Whoever this guy is—he’s gotta winner!!!
Who is Richard Land?
And I’d be appalled if Palin agreed to hit the 24/7 campaign trail in pursuit of the 24/7 job of VP. ANY infant deserves better mothering than that, and especially an infant with a serious disability.
Tom Ridge is a good guy alright, but he’s dull as burned toast.
Any infant deserves better parenting than that, especially one with a disability. I’d be just as critical of Palin being VP if she were a man abandoning an infant to campaign. Until your kids are older, someone shouldn’t be running for a national office. Kids need a stable, two-parent home to thrive.
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He’s not very good, either. He’s pro-choice as the pro-death people like to call themselves.
Ah, I did not know that!
Well then, never mind about Mr. Ridge.
This is the kind of story liberals love to read.
It always cracks me up when ministers get together and say t each other: "How many you running?", as if their parishers were just cattle.
I mean, other than the fact that he's the most liberal Governor in the history of the republic.
I guess Richard Land slept through that...
To be accurate, it’s...15,999,999 Southern Baptists...who care what Land thinks ;-)
“This is the kind of story liberals love to read.”
I think this is the kind of story that a lot of Evangelicals and Baptists like to read. Richard Land has some influence, no?
What don’t you like about him or the article?
Tom Ridge, the nail file, underwire bra confiscator.
That man is a flaming moron.
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