Posted on 02/21/2016 9:47:57 AM PST by Marie
Brody explained that evangelical voters are tired of being "political pawns" of the GOP and having nothing to show for it.
Via The Brody File at Christian Broadcasting Network:
For months and months, Donald Trump has been exclaiming, "The evangelicals love me and I love them." Well folks, tonight that love affair paved his way to victory in the all-important South Carolina Primary. 72% of the voters in South Carolina Saturday night with evangelical. Trump won 33 percent, of them. Ted Cruz won 27 percent, and Rubio won 22 percent. So let's not kid ourselves here: Donald Trump is on his way to the GOP nomination and if he wins it, it will be because of evangelicals. Plain and simple.
Let's have this thought sink in for a moment. Donald Trump won the evangelical vote in South Carolina. Let me repeat that. Donald Trump won the evangelical vote in South Carolina. Ted Cruz, the evangelical candidate did not. Marco Rubio, who speaks so eloquently about God didn't either. Both those men (Rubio and Cruz) are solid men who love Jesus. But it is Trump who has done the best job of channeling the anger of the GOP electorate and guess what?
Evangelicals are upset with the Republican Party too.
They've felt like cheap political pawns for years, constantly being used by the GOP to get out and vote and then having nothing to show for it. With Trump, many of those evangelicals feel like they've found the politically incorrect mouthpiece to channel their inner frustration.
Is he the most righteous man to carry the torch? No. Is he the most transparent and authentic one? Clearly, they believe so. Look, evangelicals are not monolithic. There are plenty of evangelicals who can't stand Trump. But as we saw in South Carolina tonight, there are plenty who trust him to get America back on the right track.
So now it's on to Nevada where Trump holds a massive lead. Then come the SEC Primaries where Trump is once again poised to do very well. Let's have some truth telling here: if this was anybody other than Donald Trump, we'd say this nomination process is virtually over. But because it's Trump and he's such a wild card, we can't say that. If Trump is going to lose this nomination, he'll have to beat himself. He'll have to be SO over the top that it becomes too much to handle. I'm not convinced that's going to happen. He has a Teflon quality that is remarkable to watch.
Evangelicals are to the GOPe as blacks are to the DEMs.
They’re catered to, then forgotten once the candidate is elected.
I’m off the plantation, people. I’m sick and tired of being lied to by my candidates.
I may just go crazy and write in the names of good people for congress instead of settling for another stupid politician/lawyer.
"We choose instead to be political dupes."
I thought it was very interesting. He also thought that Trump did have something to say to the black community, and that they would listen to him.
Donald Trump has been exclaiming, “The evangelicals love me and I love them.” Well folks, tonight that love affair paved his way to victory in the all-important South Carolina Primary. 72% of the voters in South Carolina Saturday night with evangelical.
BOOM. And what does that say about Ted Cruz.
Evangelicals work, pay taxes, have bills, raise kids, and pursue happiness like everyone else. They want leaders that leave them alone and protect their right to worship as they please.
ISIS has shown us what some other parts of the world think about those freedoms, and turning the other cheek isn’t going to solve the problem. If you extend them a hand, they’re just going to chop it off.
We have to decide if we’re lambs for the slaughter, or lions protecting the pride. We don’t need sheepish leaders. Courage has become a rare commodity, and look where that has brought us.
Says more about evangelicals. They have given up, and thrown in with the most godless and immoral man on the republican side
Apparently, a majority of evangelicals are now all in on being used by a charlatan who will not satisfy their political desires.
Exactly.
I don’t have to consent to my own rape and murder to prove how ‘tolerant’ I am.
I don’t need a government that is ruled by my religion, but I do need a government that upholds MY right to live by my religion.
Just get out of the way and defend my liberty. That’s all I’m asking for.
What does it say about Ted Cruz? Well who knows? Cruz took about a third of the Evangelical vote, only slightly less than Trump. So, it shows that Evangelicals, as do other groups, have more than one thing on their mind and on their list of things they seek in a candidate.
Evangelicals may have been “duped” in the past, but that doesn’t mean they are stupid. They have had to make do with compromise candidates for a long time. Cruz was pummeled in South Carolina by what I view as false shouts of “Liar!” Rubio garnered the endorsement of the present Governor and most of the GOP establishment. Trump’s Trump. That under those circumstances there was a division of the Evangelical vote, should not be a surprise. It certainly doesn’t mean Evangelicals don’t like either Rubio or Cruz, nor does it mean that Evangelicals might not coalesce around either of them if one or the other garners the nomination.
It might simply be that Trump has an appeal to Evangelicals that transcends their personal religious agendas, or that they see that he might further their agendas or at least not hinder their religion. Trump has an appeal which I certainly understand. It does, indeed, transcend frustration, anger, religion and social standing.
Nonetheless, I Stand With Ted.
Oldplayer
It is one thing for a candidate to proclaim faith, it is untoward for that candidate to believe that he is God’s selected candidate and have religious ecstasies on stage during a campaign.
Evangelicals are to the GOPe as blacks are to the DEMs.
They’re catered to, then forgotten once the candidate is elected.
I’m off the plantation, people. I’m sick and tired of being lied to by my candidates.
This is why Cruz’s one note social conservatism campaign is failing. We’ve heard this primary season red meat issues story before. This country is rotten and loves abortion. No single POTUS is going to change that fact yet the career politicans all promise us the moon to get elected. This is a generational battle and if Cruz was genuine he would say that.
Would rather he say that he IS for abortion and isn’t going to do anything to change it?
We evangelicals need to eat too
Too bad, so sad.
The States were originally perceived as being cradles for social experimentation. That is why they have Powers the Federal government does not.
The States regulate medicine. They have the Power to effect controls over abortion. It is always surprising to me that Social Conservatives do not understand that well and do something about it.
Same thing with marriage. They may not be able to eliminate sodomites and lesbians marrying one another totally, but they can pass a State law requiring marriages conducted by a religious establishment be for members only. A church, a synagogue, a temple or any other religious establishment, can control who they allow to be members.
Amen! As another poster wisely stated: "Evangelicals are to the GOPe as blacks are to the DEMs. They’re catered to, then forgotten once the candidate is elected."
As this poster also said, we too are permanently "off the GOPe plantation". We are also sick and tired of being LIED TO by OUR candidates. As the song goes: "We won't be fooled again!"
The GOPe functionaries sitting in their smoke filled "back rooms" had better wake up and wise up quick to this new dynamic/reality or they will find their GOPe "Party" no longer exists, having gone the way of the "Wig Party".
The one fact the GOPe fails to understand is that Evangelical Christians are by and large highly educated and fully comprehend how we have been and are being manipulated. The jig is up and we would rather see the GOPe Party permanently crash and burn than to play their "lesser of two evils" candidate any more!
Jeb had his chance to be a heroic man surrendered to God and doing the right thing in March of 2005.
Epic fail.
it says that the people they are calling evangelicals are not
it says that: If you support an adulterer who brags about his sexual exploits, uses profane language in public, donated millions to democrat campaigns, defends planned parenthood and has a hot wife who poses for lesbian soft porn, and then claim you are a Christian...well, you’re most likely NOT.
I hear you on that.
Jeb Bush is an accomplice to murder.
Not fit to be POTUS.
Thank you, TRUMP!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.