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Agreed about the primaries. For events of such consequence they see a surprisingly low turnout, even among “conservatives” that really ought to know better!

May I suggest a different methodology for looking for strong horses for primaries, to put a big effort behind, and it’s not like the world thinks.

I saw a useful illustration just the other night. I won’t name the freeper, but he wanted to see a stark hero, in black and white contrast. And fooey on anyone else.

I actually agree but with a twist on it. Look not for the politician who projects a worldly glamor image (not everyone can be a movie cowboy, which was part of Ronald Reagan’s fortuitous appeal as he yeehawed onto the country’s stage with an optimism that Jimmy Carter’s malaise was tailor made to be a foil to).

Look for the politician who has done something of personal consequence on account of God. Even if it seems partly misguided. In that light, with 20/20 hindsight, if I could get into a time machine and wasn’t hobbled by pesky reality’s need to be self consistent, I’d be hollering in 2012 for primary support for either Newt Gingrich or Michelle Bachmann, if Sarah Palin would not step in. Yes, Newt was a womanizer who even flirted with Nancy Pelosi and some of her batty ideas. And yes, Michelle Bachmann had problems with recurrent migraines (as best I recall). But with their respective faiths, they could have now been serving as dynamite presidents, with the dynamite being their God, not their worldly personas. Womanizers? How about King Solomon? Or frequently ill? How about Timothy in the early church? Trials and even failures can be for the good as well as the ill, depending on one’s viewpoint upon the divine.

[Look for the politician who has done something of personal consequence on account of God.]

And it might even be ironically for the best that Obama was full of hate, if that hate was on account of what he thought God to be. (”God damn America” anyone?) Because the God that chastens, then will later bless. It is a biblical constant. America courted damnation and the worst sin was not even sexual shenanigans. It was in losing the optimism of God. “The joy of the Lord is your strength” is NOT woofing. It is a fundamental heavenly secret, and the only reason it’s a secret is because WE have been grim sinners saying no, no, no to God’s joy! We have pity parties! We damn the world to hell, the same world that God is currently striving to save! We get snooty and say that everyone should look outwardly like we do! No wonder God has headaches in heaven, and so do we on earth.

OK, let me “ramble” on some more. I just submit it for consideration.

I have to be honest about a lot of liberals. They want for society good things that only Christ can provide, but they are trying to do it without a faith in Christ. (Booing God is not exactly the best way of entreating Him for blessings, after all.) And they come up with humongous do-gooding schemes, like Obamacare, to try to do what they think God ought to be doing. The fix is simpler than we might want to let on. Put our faith back in Christ again, and we will get not only the blessing but the assurance that the blessing is there to help us whenever we purpose to glorify God in what we do. God is gracious. It is we who are being the clownish snots and pounding on the world’s door demanding for blessings that He freely offers from His throne.