How Ted Haggard delivered control to the Democrats

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 11/11/06 | By Charles McVety

[AmericaUnited]

I consider myself fairly well-versed on politics, but I never HEARD of Haggard until he was "outed" by the media.

Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! WHO?!

[Stretch]

ALLOW ME TO BE LAST TO POST THE LAST COMMENT AT 7:30 AM TO THIS THREAD: remember folks, When CLINTONS (i MEAN BOTH)
passed the bill to remove religion from all of our schools, he, so piossly, made the statement that it was done on the recommendation of the COUNCIL OF CHURCHES.... Nuff said....

the clintons are the most evil persons in the world....

REMEMBER THIS IN 2008.....

[joesbucks]

Without commmenting on the theology itself, this is the dumbest reason given for why the Republicans lost this election that I've seen yet, and the bar was pretty high..

As they say in a holy roller church: Amen! Haggard's only transgression in the voters who even considered his actions in their voting is that he was a liar, did what he did with the other man and was a hypocritical voice against the very sins he was doing. A modern day Billy Sunday.

Nary a one saw his environmental stance as an issue to vote for the dems.

While we have the drive by media to contend with, our side has the jaw bone media (talk radio) and the ink pen media (self appointed pundits who get published by WND, Newsmax, Townhall and others) who have in the past few months and days after the election been worse in handling the election than the MSM.

[SkyPilot]

If evangelicals left the party, we would win. Kooks.

I am a "Kook" - and proud to call Christ my king.

I take it you are not. That is your choice.

[saneright]

To bad this queer didn't overdose on his crystal meth fix.

[James Ewell Brown Stuart]

Thanks for the reminder!

[dmw]

"If evangelicals left the party, we would win."

Shows how little you know. Kook!

[outofstyle]

"Without commenting on the theology itself, this is the dumbest reason given for why the Republicans lost this election that I've seen yet, and the bar was pretty high.."

Maybe not as far fetched as it seems. There are many committed liberal voters and committed conservative voters who understand the issues. There are also many people who vote who are totally clueless by our standards. Some of the people in this last category may happen to be churchgoers. Even a relatively small increase in "evangelical" votes for the dems along with the expected historical trends in year six and the old media attacks could have made a difference. I don't know.

[No Blue States]

"If evangelicals left the party, we would win. Kooks."

If they ever take liberterians seriously we might.

[pamlet]

You know I thought I hadn't remembered him - but this article jogged my memory of him ... it was a year or two ago when there was a story about him on 60 minutes or one of those type shows... the whole environmentalist angle.

Actually the article makes some good points about how when Christians align themselves with "worldly" people how they can get too off track...

Whatever the case - it just sort of confirms for me that this guy was on a questionable track to begin with - and that just makes it easier to fall into "worse" sin.. :(

[pamlet]

I had to laugh - yep it is much simpler for Roman Catholics!

When it comes to Protestant Christianity .. I gave up LONG ago trying to figure out if I was evangelical or fundmentalist ... or some other label I've never heard of...

I think the labels mean different things to those who consider themselves with the label ... and to those who do not....

As for me - I just believe that in order to get to Heaven - you need to acknowledge that you are a sinner, accept in faith that Jesus came to earth to die and rise again as payment for that sin... all the other stuff is just stuff that man has "interpreted" to make "sense" of it in his (man's) own mind...

[Hacksaw]

No Idea, I just never heard of him before the media started slamming him.

That's funny - neither had I. (I thought he was a football coach when the story came out!) But apparently according to the media, he was a very important person to people like me. Just shows you how the legacy media can still manufacture issues.

[Always Right]

If evangelicals left the party, we would win.

LOL, riiiiiight. Without the anti-abortion anti-gay agenda vote, we would of had President Gore and lost the House and Senate a long time ago. The social conservative base is the biggest separator between the GOP and Dems and is the most reliable vote the GOP has.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I remember when I saw the article by the AP. Some guy named Haggard, religious fella, had gay sex and knew the President in some capacity, therefore we were supposed to vote Democrat. Believe me, the AP reporters have f*cked more people up the kiester than this guy has, and I'll bet they know Democrat politicians... just a guess. That's why I had to vote Republican. ;-)

[Cymbaline]

I never even heard of Tom Foley until the Media decided that I was supposed to be concerned about him and went wall-to-wall just before election day.

[GodfearingTexan]

ditto.

[Fester Chugabrew]

The Republican Party lost the mid-term elections primarily due to the war in Iraq . . .

That's what the MSM would have us believe, anyway.

[Jim Noble]

The social conservative base is...the most reliable vote the GOP has.

Yes, it is, and if social conservatives care about ever winning again, they'd better get busy figuring out how to go from 30% of the electorate to the 51% they need.

So far, it doesn't look promising.

[eddie willers]

...I think what happened with Haggard is that God exposed him and brought him down

Wished He'd have waited until after the election.

[GraniteStateDad]

Too late, many of us already have!
I consider myself conservative, but I ditched the "republican" label years ago. I got tired of insincere politicians and "their followers" pandering to my faith just to get my vote.
So, Mr. Huang, no need to wonder any longer. Did Tuesday answer your question?
John McCain, protect me from your followers!