Posted on 07/16/2023 6:04:48 AM PDT by devane617
Going into the Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines on Friday, the big story was whether Donald Trump’s contemptuous decision to skip the presumably obligatory cattle call for Republican presidential candidates before a large and influential crowd of conservative evangelicals would damage his candidacy. Trump aside, however, the big question was whether one of the dark horse candidates stalking the former president and Florida governor Ron DeSantis would have a breakout moment at the day-long event. Former vice president Mike Pence, whose intimate ties with the Christian Right go back decades, and Senator Tim Scott, who has been delivering a decidedly religious pitch to voters in Iowa, were thought to have a real opportunity to shine in this very churchy venue.
, But the star wasn’t Scott or Pence or anyone else thumping a Bible, and Trump’s snub was all but forgotten. For that matter, the traditional culture-war concerns of the Christian Right got short shrift. Instead, designated candidate interviewer Tucker Carlson and his personal obsessions were the center of attention, as the Des Moines Register’s Brianne Pfannenstiel reported:
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Aw, geez. They actually CARE ABOUT the Christian Right. < sarc >
Tucker has far deeper understanding of the Conservative movement and DC than Beck ever did. Beck is a Mormon first and Conservative second.
I think I can live with being in nowhereland with a netvworth of $500 million.
The bile dripping off of the excerpt paragraphs says enough.
Now that is really rich. MSN bemoaning that the evangelicals are not falling for the deception of the professed religious candidates and are instead rejecting them. Their dreams have been shattered, and only given the MSN leftists yet another thing to hate upon evangelicals even more.
Well said.
I always value the opinions of folks who parrot whatever MSN is selling because they just... matter... so... much.
My impression as well.
Thing about Leftists is, you don’t need to read the entire text of what they say. They frequently telegraph themselves in the first sentence, if not the first few words of that first sentence.
Over the years, I frequently thank them for this, as they have undoubtedly save me many hours in my life by telegraphing their predictable drivel.
Back in the Cold War, you would read something and see an opening sentence like “The running dog capitalists...” and could forego the rest of the article, because you knew exactly what it would say.
I find the Media today is much the same.
Nice ad hominem you got there.
“Tucker has far deeper understanding of the Conservative movement and DC than Beck ever did. Beck is a Mormon first and Conservative second.”
What, exactly, has Beck been “”wrong”” about? You bring up his faith like it has some bearing on the truth. It doesn’t. In fact, I’m thinking that perhaps Glenn Beck’s Mormon faith has zero to do with his political stance.... which is and has been, in my opinion, spot on.
“They actually CARE ABOUT the Christian Right.”
Sarc aside, nah. They’re just jealous that it wasn’t them jacking up and/or hijacking the Christian Right... for a change.
You’re just flat wrong. Period.
Flip-flopped on Obama at one point, which was when I stopped paying attention to him, maybe he flipped back since ?
You should know by now FR has the mormon haters that feel hatred above anything else in their lives.
I get a kick out of watching leftists try to analyze right-wing politics. It’s like like watching a blind man try to describe the color blue.
yes
Ya see, previously, the media would take out our best candidates, leaving only the easily-defeated pantywaists.
Tucker is taking out the pantywaists, leaving the best candidates.
They don’t like the competition.
The word is “grandeur”. And Tucker has done nothing to impair his popularity ala Glenn Beck’s “faceful of cheetos” flail.
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