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Evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. endorses Trump
Washington Post ^ | 26 Jan 16 | Robert Costa and Jenna Johnson

Posted on 01/26/2016 8:54:59 AM PST by xzins

Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., the son of the late televangelist, endorsed Donald Trump on Tuesday, giving Republican front-runner the blessing of one of the evangelical community’s biggest names just days before the Iowa caucuses.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: endorsement; falwell; iowa; jerryfalwell; liberty; trump
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To: plewis1250
By the way, the same exact argument was said of Ronald Reagan. He's too conservative to win...
Reagan was honest and genuine. Cruz is a deceitful fraud.
61 posted on 01/26/2016 9:38:23 AM PST by lewislynn
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To: xzins

Here is what Trump would have been saying if Falwell had endorsed Ted Cruz

http://twitchy.com/2013/03/22/you-were-born-stupid-trump-goes-after-michelle-malkin-gets-throttled/


62 posted on 01/26/2016 9:38:50 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: austinaero

Listen to what he has said himself about giving money to political campaigns...


63 posted on 01/26/2016 9:38:57 AM PST by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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To: COUNTrecount

anybody know where Graham stands?


64 posted on 01/26/2016 9:39:06 AM PST by dp0622
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To: xzins

Rush L. is behind the curve on this.

He mentioned Trump has a major endorsement announcement, but they don’t know who it could be.


65 posted on 01/26/2016 9:39:22 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: jennychase

And if Cruz is not the nominee, then a Democrat will be President.


66 posted on 01/26/2016 9:39:56 AM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: xzins

Another sell-out!


67 posted on 01/26/2016 9:40:03 AM PST by alstewartfan ("I came back as a large hippopotamus." Al Stewart)
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To: Chauncey Uppercrust

If Jesus is for Cruz, does that mean Cruz will win?

Or does it mean that if Cruz doesn’t win that the position of Jesus has been ignored by the voters?


68 posted on 01/26/2016 9:40:11 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

apostate


69 posted on 01/26/2016 9:40:14 AM PST by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for)
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To: xzins

Pastor Jeffress has been very conservative over the years. Do you think he is wavering now?


70 posted on 01/26/2016 9:41:13 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Buffalo Head

Trump has more than warts.

Trump is unacceptable.

He is a liberal thru and thru.

“we are just pissing into the wind.”

So we are always told to get in line, eat our peas, and get behind the candidate.

Yet when you’re given the opportunity to BACK a conservative candidate (Ted Cruz) you don’t and make some nonsensical argument about pissing into the wind because our conservative ideals cannot win...

Okay...

Glad the founding fathers didn’t just sit on their laurels and accept their king...


71 posted on 01/26/2016 9:41:26 AM PST by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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To: OhioBuckeye
If Trump is the nominee, people will stay home just like they did with Romney...

In Romney's defense, he ran to the right of Donald Trump.

72 posted on 01/26/2016 9:41:41 AM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: JWinNC

We are going to have to pray that if Trump goes rogue its on the press, the red-green alliance and globalist trade deals.....


73 posted on 01/26/2016 9:41:41 AM PST by magna carta
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To: RaceBannon

Falwell?

I don’t think an endorsement for the presidency rises to the level of apostasy. That would be based on denying his faith in Jesus, wouldn’t it?


74 posted on 01/26/2016 9:42:08 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jennychase

Gonna sound like a broken record but...

Unless you have a working magic 8 ball, your argument is nonsensical.

By the way, the same exact argument was said of Ronald Reagan. “He’s too conservative to win...”

Hogwash!!!

Since when are we ashamed of being conservatives? Since when do we, as conservatives have to give up on our principles for the sake of winning? Or should I say, since when has that worked?

Romney, McCain, Dole... All of these progressive candidates were “electable”.

That is just an old GOPe tactic which flat out does not result in anything factual.

Cruz is certainly electable: he was elected to the US Senate, and he will be elected as our nominee, and then the next President.


75 posted on 01/26/2016 9:43:53 AM PST by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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To: Buffalo Head
We don't. But until we can find a conservative candidate with a pleasant personality and charisma, . . .

. . . we will choose a Democrat as our candidate instead.

76 posted on 01/26/2016 9:44:08 AM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: Theodore R.

No. I think he is from Texas, and from what I’ve heard he is an acquaintance of Ted Cruz’s.

I think there’s something behind the scenes at play. Jeffress is very well connected and very smart. I think he knows how the ground game is going in Iowa.

He very clearly said on TV last night that his focus was on winning. He thinks Trump can win and that Cruz winning is less likely.


77 posted on 01/26/2016 9:44:22 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: E=MC<sup>2</sup>

>>Falwell’s and Jeffress’ endorsements are strange to say the least.

I’m guessing neither of them will end up on the same page of history as...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer


78 posted on 01/26/2016 9:45:39 AM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: xzins

It would be better if there wasn’t $100,000 involved-Even if Trump gave it of Falwell’s friend, it takes away from the endorsement.


79 posted on 01/26/2016 9:45:48 AM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: GodGunsGuts
Here is what Trump would have been saying
A spamming idiot once again running off at the mouth pretending to know what someone else, in this case a genius, would say in a hypothetical situation.
80 posted on 01/26/2016 9:45:55 AM PST by lewislynn
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