And the careful candidates who were supposed to be able to win in the general - Dole, McCain, Romney - that didn't work out so well.
We might ask the question. It's a fair question you ask. But the power brokers giving us an answer apparently don't have a clue who can or cannot win.
I guarantee you this, though, the candidate that the Christians have gotten behind have won:
1. Jimmy Carter, born again
2. Ronald Reagan, moral majority
3. George W. Bush, Christian Coalition.
If any candidate can get the Christians excited, then that candidate will have a better chance than any of the most carefully vetted, poll-tested, favorite sons of the establishment.
I certainly hope you are right about that, dear brother in Christ!
But let's face it — and prepare: Any candidate that has deep and widespread Christian support will face enormous political headwinds in this election cycle.
This will be a "do or die" effort on the part of the increasingly marginalized Democratic Party. They will do anything just to survive at this point. Not least of all because 0bama has thrown the non-progressives of his party under the bus....
Jeepers, 0bama is cutting his own Party — not to mention Congress — out of his planning and scheming.... Maybe they should be grateful.
"It is better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven." [Non serviam.]
The problem is, for all their happy progressive rhetoric, the Democrat Party does not advocate policies that actually work in the real world. And that fact is getting increasingly obvious.
It's great to see the names of folks elected president mainly by Christians. On the other hand, in what way are a Jimmy Carter and a Ronald Reagan similar? And how does a George W. Bush fit into that picture?
What I am suggesting is that Christian voters do not always seem to concur on what constitutes a foundational moral fact. (E.g., what did Carter and Reagan have in common in their reasoning?) Not only that, but they seem to have a propensity to stay away from the Polls if they don't like their choices.
Let's NOT do that again, next time. Please.