Posted on 11/08/2012 4:55:02 AM PST by jmaroneps37
The experts are wringing their hands trying to figure out why Romney didn’t win, but now we know: the 14 million missing voters from Romney’s column are Evangelicals.
Evangelical Christians may not be evil people, but they helped an evil president become an evil dictator on Tuesday. The exact numbers aren’t in but clearly the vast majority of Evangelicals stayed home on Election Day.
They weren’t dealing with a storm or a personal family emergency. They stayed home because they made a conscious decision to allow our Marxist enemy to continue ruining our lives rather than have Mormon Mitt Romney as our president.
They draw their grounds for such a twisted thought from their interpretation of the Bible which they take literally – except of course for the part about handling poisonous snakes – that’s where a more modern interpretation of Scripture takes hold.
The Evangelicals’ hatred of Romney burns so brightly it blinded them. Self- flagellation and a willingness to aid and abet a clear enemy became preferable to them – consequences be damned.
Evangelicals profess to be pro-life against Gay “marriage” for religious freedom a strong protective bond with Israel and for a strong and effective military yet on Tuesday they stayed away by the millions and imperiled all they say they believe in.
They stood on principle, so they will say, so they hate the Republican Party for nominating Romney as well. They did not even consider the danger they put America in – Romney and the RNC hurt their feelings and they wanted the “revenge” Barack Obama urged.
Skipping the top line for the sake of saving America never occurred to our Evangelical neighbors. If Evangelicals had just done this we would have a Republican Senate and a stronger hold on the House...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Again, for the record:
(1) I am not an evangelical; I am Catholic, though I grew up Southern Baptist.
(2) I did indeed vote for Romney.
Now on to commenting:
If I were an evangelical, I would never align myself with someone like the author of this article, who feels obliged to take cheap shots at Evangelical religious beliefs.
Furthermore, the author takes it on faith that Romney is pro-life (record speaks otherwise) and anti-gay-rights (record speaks otherwise).
Maybe the evangelicals sadly concluded that there really wasn’t that much difference in SOCIAL/CULTURAL issues between the two. Given REPUBLICAN SCOTUS appointments (Roberts, Kennedy, Souter, O’Connor) maybe they are on to something.
By ascribing HATE as the motivation the author is engaging in typical LEFTIST projection and should be ashamed of himself.
And, I would also point out, that a very short time ago the owner of this site was vowing to never, ever vote for Romney. I can hardly see how one can be angry with evangelicals for doing likewise.
Our founding fathers were just like these selfish jerks.
Lots of sweeping claims in this article without a shred of statistical evidence to support it. And Romney won all the conservative states where the greatest numbers of evangelicals live.
Is there any evidence of an evangelical “boycott” in the battleground states where the election was lost?
Churchies teamed up with the Philthy thugs to roll out a dictator's carpet.
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The data will be in very soon and we will know for certain.
Honestly, with some of anti Mormon fervor I’ve seen with some here, it wouldn’t surprise me.
As football coaches say, “the tape don’t lie”...we will have certainty soon.
“but now we know: the 14 million missing voters from Romney’s column are Evangelicals.”
Exactly—how do we know that?
I am “evangelical” and everyone I know voted for Romney.
Missing ballots, more than we can imagine
Massive voter fraud and intimidation
Ignorance of the issues
Disinterest
Disgust
Busy being entertained
Drugged
are some other reasons
I’m not buying this.
I am an evangelical who did vote for Romney.
Most evangelicals know darn well what was at stake and what a 2nd Obama term would mean.
While I certainly had my reservations about voting for him, there was no contest when compared to Obama.
I suspect at this point that once again, polls are being used as a weapon... this time to attack Christians directly.
The national news organizations are a cowardly unaccountable tool of our enemies... hell bent on destroying the very foundations of what made this country great... and people I suspect are going to just ignore the source of polls like this and continue to give them credibility regardless of what they do.
Actually, when they get done counting Romney will likely have roughly the same number of votes McCain did in 2008.
Meanwhile I've yet to see the empirical evidence showing that Evangelical voters stayed away from the polls.
Indeed, we would have. Obama's vote was down by nine million over 2008.
Coach Kevin is exaggerating a bit his point. There is part of me that FEELS the irritation of two boys in white shirts, tie, on bicycles telling me that they are Elders of the Mormon church, and you get hammered with the Joseph Smith stuff, it obviously did repel a few people. But by and large, most evangelicals stepped into the batters box and took a swing. What was missing, was the backslidden, honky tonk sinning Christian crowd....who says they are Christian, but were fence riders. Coach Kevin, consider that 92% of the vote for Obama was Christian blacks, while their black pastors urged them to vote against a candidate that proposed same sex marraige. Or that 76% of the vote was Hispanic, with their Catholic bishops asking them to NOT vote for a candidate that proposed abortion. The ELECTORATE my dear Coach Kevin has changed. But the Republican National Committee needs to get a canidate that can fire up the BASE, and the base is conservative values. I remember all 8 candidates in the primary had a battlecry, ANYONE BUY ROMNEY... and big guns steered the ship into the National Convention, and carefully weeded out Sara Palin and her gang. This did not help.
Where is your data and proof to back up your assertions? I’m not saying you’re wrong but I like to deal with facts and evidence to support assertions.
Everyone is distraught and it seems to be part of human nature to search out someone or something to blame.
This much we know so far: Obama did not win because of strong and enthusiastic support-his votes will be down 7 million from 2008. Obama did win because not enough showed up to vote for Romney.
Whether or not that was evangelicals remains to be seen. By the way I am one and if this is true I will be deeply saddened (ala Tom Daschle)
That was my own conclusion yesterday. I know that I kind of balked, especially during the primaries and one of the reasons was Mitt’s Mormonism but also his record.
When he won the nomination and there was no other choice he became my choice and in the end I even got enthusiastic about him.
I reasoned with several people about the choices we had and influenced a couple of them and it was the Mormonism for all of them.
One could not be swayed and though she voted she just skipped the presidential race. I heard from others that there were many of them with that attitude.
And yet these same Christians must deny that God gives us the leaders (and candidates) that were before us, or else they would have gotten their sorry a$$es to vote. God gave us a choice and, as is our wont, we choice wrongly. I hope they are proud of their purity when the gubmint comes knocking at their door for some insane reason. As Christians especially, we can only hide for so long before the choosing.
Right. People I spoke with at my Baptist church were not voting for the marxist pro-abortionist.
Romney foisted himself on us. Among the cast of has-beens and never-will-bes seeking to be the GOP's presidential standard bearer for 2012, Romney was the strongest.
No one on the Right is happy obamateur won. But do you think it’s productive to impugn peoples’ religious principles just because we’re sore losers? Evangelicals — for all their faults — are an important core of the conservative movement. Lose them with this kind of vicious rhetoric and then let’s see how relevant a force the Right is.
Evangelicals stayed home because they could not in principle support a man whose beliefs they found spiritually suspect. While I’m not happy about the effect that had, I do respect the integrity of their convictions.
And I’d really like to avoid the inevitable circular firing squad that comes in the wake of a loss like this.
Mega mega dittos.
Every tub has to sit on its own bottom. I do not choose their path.
I know there are a lot here and they flame away with all manner of emotional arguments. Win the battle lose the war. Perfect strategy.
Frankly I think they are suicidal. If they could hasten the end of us all they would. Individual suicide is a sin but orchestrating a version of the end time isn’t I suppose. They are too sanctimonious to just mind their own business and deal with their own life. They love to be persecuted. They like to be strangely different to encourage ridicule because we all know full well that only God’s chosen people will be persecuted and the more they can draw the better.
Someone will be right one day. When that day comes has nothing to do with the zealots. They may think they are aiding the end time and have been thinking that for a long long time. One day they will be right. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Flame away if you care because I could not care less what you think. It will simply bounce off me like bbs off of brick.
If Romney was up front with his faith like the Cathy family, perhaps we could have seen an election day response similar to Chick-fil-A on 8/1. He kept talking about the economy and truly religious folks aren't impressed by materialism (at least myself and my neighbors aren't).
Despite that, our state went red, even though he's a northeast liberal.
Now that the problem has been identified, what's the solution?
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