Thank you for the clarification. I appreciate it.
I mean it. The devil had me by the throat (and more, that I don’t even want to talk about in polite company) for decades. I have been put through the West Point of spiritual warfare... and I can’t brag on me because I entered it as an utter doofus and kicking and screaming every which way to get out of it!! I brag on the Lord! God is more wonderful than you could ever dream! God conquers what you might not even think could be conquered because it had such a sordid history!
I believe conservative concerns shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. The ideas we have are a sharing in God’s ideas. However God has bigger plans than we do. Let’s respect that, brother? I love you I do. With agape love.
Also, my dear doughboy brother... can you really blame me for being enthusiastic? I’ve seen God *WORK* right up close and personal. The Holy Spirit is like, man, breathing down my neck so to speak... but in a great way. Heaven is not full of cotton candy, brother. It is full of dynamite. Waiting for us to light its fuse... it won’t do that for us, however.
I don’t want to excuse the premature execution of ideas whose time has not come yet. However I still think Sarah would be better insulated from falling into that folly than, say, a Jimmy Carter. She keeps an ear out for wisdom through multiple sources, I believe. Now the Lord has other servants too. If Cruz can pass muster, great. I know far less about Cruz than Palin. What we need to avoid is brittleness. Brittleness mowed half a dozen better men down and gave us the Mitt Romney who was a consummate weather vane and thus too chicken to consistently screw, blue, and tattoo Barack Obama in the campaign.