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.
Sister in Christ, these are the similarities I see that caused a group of Christians to bounce between seemingly dissimilar candidates. First, they convinced Christians that the Christian world view was one they took seriously. Next, they convinced Christians that they shared that worldview: Jimmy Carter with his born again talk, Ronald Reagan by standing for life and values, and GW because he convinced us he was sincere about family and God. Third, they didn’t deviate. They fought to maintain their connection with Christians. I think we believed we were part of the discussion.
The last was not the case with Dole, McCain, or Romney. They didn’t fight. They sent mixed messages. They took our place settings from the table and sat us in the back yard. I don’t want to revisit those campaigns, but they were all weak, and they portrayed weakness and vacillation.
Will Cruz fight? I’ve no doubt. Will we share values? Absolutely, although I’d like to discuss one or two things with him.
Will the establishment get behind him? I’m not sure. We could see them switch or stay home the way evangelicals did when the shoe was on the other foot. I suspect he’d have to do what Reagan did and pick an establishment VP.
Establishment Republicans will not accept a Conservative. They have made their feelings very clear. Like all Liberals, RINOs believe in administering ever greater doses of the poison that is killing America.
If we are to have a Conservative Republican as President, we will have to ram him down the Establishment’s throat.
Thanks for the BEEP!