So we can’t have ANY issue with extra-marital affairs? It’s an issue and a problem and we can’t just ignore it. How can we slam Clinton up and down the wall for the same thing? It’s NOT okay when our guys do it.
I understand fully wanting to see ABR, but we can’t lose our soul. Many of us here are believers and I can’t put aside what I KNOW to be wrong just for politics.
I mean no disrespect, but I would hope that MY position is also respected. Thanks.
If you do the bidding of statist Romney’s camp on this site you get the zot. I won’t be arguing with you on this point.
You can have any issue you want with extra marital affairs but to continue to discuss it is just counterproductive. We all know what happened but now it’s up to you to make up your mind whether it matters. There is absolutely no point in arguing about it. It is what it is.
As far as Clinton goes let me know when Newt is accused of raping women.
How is bashing Newt a good thing? Do you see liberals bashing Obama?
Why does our side have this obsessive compulsive behavior to bash their own candidates for all to see??
“So we can’t have ANY issue with extra-marital affairs? It’s an issue and a problem and we can’t just ignore it.”
So, you are good with those who facilitate casual, bloody abortion but will not accept those who have publicly repented of sexual sin?
Perhaps when it is all over you may be introduced to the loving couples Ahab -n- Jezebel and Herod -n- Herodias rather than the squalid and embarassing David and Mary Magdalene.
After all, the real core meaning of life is:
NEVER DRINK NOR SMOKE NOR CHEW! NEVER KISS NO GIRLS WHO DO!
Well, it was only some few months ago that people were saying that a politician who couldn’t keep his marital vows couldn’t be trusted to keep his promises to the American people. Apparently, that has become passe.
Now, I’m off to go have affairs with two women at once so that I won’t be accused of being a Romney troll.
Jim Robinson is perfectly capable of speaking for himself, but as someone who also has serious concerns about the same issues of marital infidelity, I haven't been “zotted” once I made very clear my goal is **NOT** to trash Gingrich.
I don't think the point is that we can't have problems with extramarital affairs, but rather that we need to avoid being used as tools to enable the nomination of Mitt Romney.
Related to that, please read this article posted on Free Republic by the pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church of San Diego regarding Newt Gingrich's personal faith. I found it helpful.
A Pastoral View of Newt Gingrich
By Rev. Jim Garlow
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2822096/posts
As an evangelical Christian, I believe the short-term goal needs to be defeating Romney, and the long-term goal is to defeat Obama.
However, there are people whose sole reason for attacking Gingrich is to get Romney nominated. After the “document dump” over on Drudge Report attacking Gingrich, I think I now have a better understanding of Jim Robinson's reasons.
But even if I didn't agree, it's his site and his rules. I respect that.
For whatever it's worth, PaMom, we also need to deal with the fact that in our own conservative Christian circles, large numbers of people are voting for Newt Gingrich. What happened in South Carolina shocked me — Gingrich won, and won in the most conservative parts of one of the most conservative Bible Belt states, and he didn't just win by a narrow margin but by a huge margin.
When this election is over, we've got some really hard work to do in our churches no matter who wins. A fair number of people in the left-wing media have been claiming that the Tea Party has replaced Christian conservatives as the driving force in the conservative movement. They're wrong, but this election does risk enabling some very dangerous libertarian trends in the Republican Party.
If Gingrich's faith is sincere — and Rev. Garlow’s article gives me reason to be hopeful — a President Gingrich will conduct himself in office as a repentant sinner, and will give evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics a place at the table.
I think it's clear that's far more than we can expect from Mitt Romney, let alone a re-elected Barack Obama.
I'd rather see a better Republican candidate than either Gingrich or Santorum, but right now, those are the only two choices we have left, and since it doesn't look like Santorum is going anywhere, we'd better get prepared to explain to people in our churches why the other alternatives are much worse.