Chuckles is a knuckleheaded moron. This is a non issue, Mr. Frum. Pawlenty’s RINOism is however, a game killer.
Being a Roman Catholic Christian and deciding to join a different Christian Church is not a biggie except in the eyes of the Liberals. Christian is Christian.
Catholic man’s conscience was not formed by Catholic teaching. In that unformed state, he met a woman who had a conscience formed by her evangelical church. Man’s conscience was drawn to hers. Ergo, man joins wife’s church. End of story.
There is nothing wayward or illicit here.
And we Catholic pray for everyone’s soul and conscience, including the man who sits behind the desk in the oval office.
You are the real reason Goldwater lost. Get over it, you could never support Sarah, so go over to Mitts board.
The fact remains the margin of victory in a general Presidential election is determined by the independents, not either party's faithful.
Independents are not, by definition, moderates (a mistake people like Frum often make). Often times independents may be more aligned to a Pat Buchanan populist than a McCain Republican.
Secondly, it is more often the moderate Republicans who abandon the Republican party (as seen in the Clinton/Perot, and Obama elections) than the hard right, so the idea a hard-right evangelical Republican would not vote for Pawlenty because he was once a Roman Catholic, and does not aggressively champion speficic fundamentalist beliefs, is on the surface, absurd.
Which brings up a third point, evangelical is not synonymous with fundamentalist. This is a broad brush used by ignorant fools like Frum to paint all "evangelicals" as backwards snake handlers. Witness what they did with Palin. She went to a non-denominational seeker friendly evangelical church, and when they could not find anything scandalous there, they went back a decade to when she attended an Pentecostal church and pulled whatever they could to try to paint her as intolerant.
Frum is an idiot, and Charles Johnson is a lunatic. When the best we can debate about our potential Presidential candidates is their current choice of religious denomination, it indicates we have extremely experienced potential candidates. Compare that to Obama, where the debate was much more focused on qualifications and basic knowledge of the candidate's history.
Frum doesn’t have a clue about anything, does he?
Couldn’t bring myself to give a click to Frum’s web site. But I read the LGF and Newsweek pieces. Pawlenty’s not my kind of a candidate for RINO reasons: he doesn’t seem tough enough or committed enough to tiny government.
But he and Sarah are both capable of describing their more
fundamentalist religious beliefs than what appeals to many moderate/independent voters without coming across as scary, crazy, or as if they are going to legislate away everyone else’s freedoms.
He’s too mild and tepid for me, but he was respectful, honest and fair when asked about Palin, and he is one of the more marketable candidates we have. Wouldn’t surprise me if it came down to Pawlenty and Palin by 2012, and the last round’s candidates (Huck and Mitt) were old news.
Also wouldn’t totally shock me if he, like Rick Perry, could see himself in the running for Palin’s running mate. Instead of the Cheney/Biden old congressional hand, she could want a more consistent message of outsiders coming in to clean up Washington.
Pawlenty is a RINO. Seriously, haven’t we had enough of them? Pawlenty at a national level would get his butt kicked in any election. When I see him on TV I change the channel.
the war we are in is as much about the social issues as anything..maybe more
gonna be tough times ahead for you because we are coming and with a vengeance.
you might have to go Dem.
btw, what freedom of your's has the religious right usurped so far...be specific
I’m more concerned with his military record.
Sounds like somebody’s just trying to play up “T-Paw” (guffaw) as ever having anything exciting or remotely controversial occur in his safe little milquetoasty life.
I had no idea what his religious affiliation might be. If his wife is devout, let’s hope she impressed a few solid, foundational values, rather than his persistent, subservient compromise, upon their children.
Honestly, he’s just a sort of mousey presence, scurrying around for crumbs, behind the few who actually do have the courage of their convictions, as far as I can tell.
That doesn't stop CJ from saying controversial things just to get people to visit LGF and prop up his numbers.