Posted on 03/07/2012 10:47:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Mitt Romney can't win Evangelical voters.
Throughout the primaries Romney wins rich voters, and often wins voters with extremely low incomes. He wins moderates, and in some states–like Arizona– he has won very conservative voters too. Romney is winning Catholic voters in almost every state. And he wins older voters too.
But over and over again on Super Tuesday, Romney lost the Evangelical vote. He lost them 42-24 to Santorum in Tennessee. He similarly lost those voters 52-19 to Gingrich in Georgia.
No one has really explored why this is. Are they implacably hostile to his Mormonism? Evangelical churches usually classify Romney's Church as a "cult." Are they simply out of touch with Romney because of his wealth- many Evangelicals fall into that income group between 50-100k that has been troublesome for Romney? Or do they simply not trust him on social issues, given his long career of flip flops? Or is it some combination of all this?
Evangelicals have been the key voting bloc for both parties, and are an essential part of the Republican coalition. Romney has to win them over eventually.
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No church does, including the Catholic church.
The Catholic church is a single strongly led church, most people who have been baptized into it and consider themselves Catholic, vote liberal.
Most Protestants vote conservative.
Saying that Evangelicals vote Santorum is to boost him in the eyes of conservatives.
Martin Luther stated better to be ruled by a competent Turk than an incompetent Christian. I understand he stated this at a time when Protestent princes existed inside the Ottoman Empire, such as in Transylvania and Hungary.
Mormonism is anti-Christian, they exist to conquer Christians and convert them to Mormonism, all the while pretending to be Christian at the beginning of the process, what they call “Milk before Meat”, in other words, lying.
Bishop (and future Cardinal, and then God) Mitt Romney will not be getting my vote to lead the party of the Christian right, and the Christian people of America.
When taken seriously, and not being forced to live under the limits imposed by the American government and Christian peoples, Mormonism is a Muslim like Cult, dangerous, murderous, and oppressive.
By the way SeekAndFind, Bishop Mitt Romney is a leader among Mormons, Royalty, he is among the most devout and devoted Mormons and will rise higher, at least to Cardinal, Romney is a tr
Yup.
What to do? What to do? Obama or Romney!
The argument, I suppose, is "In the beginning" means the start of Creation. It's an allusion to Genesis 1:1. Clearly the Word was there before "the heavens and the earth." The idea of Christ as a "Creation" by God seems contradictory to "and the Word was God" more than the timeline since that line is about the beginning of Creation as we know it.
I'd be curious of the Mormon theological argument here but they wouldn't be the only to diverge from belief in the Trinity.
I think the anti-Mormon angle against Romney is ridiculous. Juan Williams kept dragging it up last night on Fox to my annoyance. Romney's problem are his policies, not his religion. I don't think much of anyone holding his faith against him.
As a voter it is OK to have a limit of how far they will allow himself to be abused by a party.
It is OK to take an election where one doesn't vote for the top of the ticket, and decides to do a write in.
You might want to check on that quote - most historians now believe that Martin Luther never actually said that. Gene Edward Veith has been particularly vocal in calling this quote bogus.
What the MSM and the GOP-E don't understand is that evangelicals' loyalty is first and foremost to Christ and His Church. We will not compromise that to support a candidate who is an enemy of the Christ's Church. Even if that person had the politics of Ronald Reagan (which of course, Romney doesn't).
This is different than 2008. We could hold our nose and vote for McCain who wasn't one of us but evangelicals didn't generally feel that he was opposed to us. Romney, as someone high the Mormon hierarchy, is opposed to the evangelical church. He wouldn't have gotten there if he wasn't.
Conservatives who have a clue?
Yep, there is a big difference between holding your nose and voting for someone falling far short in politics or all the other things that make up rinos, and crummy, lousy, gut-wrenching choices in elections, versus voting for recognized evil, a dark force that we know is bigger than politics and government.
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