Posted on 05/04/2018 1:18:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ex-President Jimmy Carter says his push for Middle East Peace played an important role in turning the evangelical voting bloc into the arms of the Republican Party.
Carter told the Associated Press, that he, “took a position of wanting to see balance between Israel and the Palestinians.” Carter wasn’t able to bring about a final peace deal and was seen by some as not being pro-Israel enough.
He claims that this was a major factor in evangelicals aligning with the Republican Party, which has since adopted a hardline pro-Israel stance. They were a major factor in President Trump’s shocking upset win.
“Evangelicals are naturally inclined from a religious point of view to be loyal to Israel,” he said, noting their more literal interpretations of the Bible. Trump has emboldened Christian Zionists. They played a role in Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, and Trump’s Vice President, Mike Pence, addressed their annual conference this year.
Carter pointed out that Christians Zionists also believe “that the Jews should also all become Christians — that’s not often mentioned.”
In the interview Carter, a devout Baptist, admitted that Democratic Party positions on abortion and women’s rights, also played a major role in evangelical allegiance to the GOP.
And HR Clintoonie drove voters to the GOP because she’s a capitalist. ROTFL. Liberal Democrats are nuts! Always blaming someone else for their screw-ups.
Yes. And other issues, such as homosexual marriage, suing to force accommodation of abortifacients as part of birth control, suing to tear down crosses off of mountain tops, suing to force homosexual adoptions on agencies of faith which deal with such matters, lawsuits forcing transsexual rights on all of us.......
The anti-religious side of issues is almost always the Democrat party position. And the Democrats liberals have proven that they will sue in court to get their way, as opposed to working thru the political process.
Jimmeh Carter is a raving anti-semite, just like FDR was!
Has the stupidest president in history (prior to Obama) once more opened his mouth and vomited out more nonsense?
Jimmy Carter is singlehandedly responsible for cause Islamic nuttery to spread across the world. Jimmy Carter was and still is a disater, the consequences of which we shan't be rid of any time soon.
Carter is an idiot.
There’s that accusation again. We are racist. Tired, worn out.
Jimmy’s bag can be pretty messy, but so is everyone else’s.
McCain didn’t make it to the White House. It would have been good to see Christian Zionist Sarah Palin in Washington DC, but whoa not the senator who sold out to Saudi Arabia and its jihadists in Syria.
I am a Christian Zionist, but not a ‘literalist’ because literalism would make me a Pharisee.
Jimmy has his points, but bears responsibility for shaking things up in Iran and Nicaragua.
Some would also point to the Soviet Union invading Afghanistan in 1979 which led to those jihadists McCain loves in the Bin Laden mold being financed by the USA to fight there.
That was on Jimmy Carter’s watch as well.
No Jimmah it was your antisemitism.
11% inflation, 17% mortgage interest rates, the Iran hostage crisis, $2.95 per gallon gas prices and long gas lines, weak and ineffective foreign policy, silly domestic initiatives. That is what drove Evangelicals and everyone else to the GOP in 1980, Jimmy.
Amazing how, nearly 40 years after the fact, this self-centered POS STILL can’t get over his loss...or himself. JiMe-Me-Me-Me-Me Carter, I’d suggest that the Evangelicals went to the Republicans for 2 reasons: Abortion, and the fact that your Leftist partners in crime absolutely DESPISE religious people (of all faiths, btw, not just Christians). You had precious little to do with it but, to the limited extent you did, YES your anti-Semitism didn’t help the Dems. Thanks, I think.
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot to ask: So, when are you going to stop stealing our oxygen?
Ya, THINK?
Liberals, i.e., the Democrat Party, are categorically opposed to anything faintly approaching a Biblical standard.
Jimmy, your pronouncements are a disgrace to Naval Officers and to Christians, Baptist or otherwise, let alone 'devout' Christians.
“He lost me when he whacked the rabbit.”
But Billy didn’t miss that airport runway, not after swilling down all of that Billy Beer.
Jimmy, Jimmy, you just wasn’t that important ...
Jimmah jimmah jimmah - trying to deflect from your greatest failure? Giving Iran to the radical Muslims who turned it into a theocracy and now point nukes at us and Israel and maybe about to start WW 3?
That’s on you Jimmah.
That’s also why the Christians (note he uses the divisive term evangelicals) shifted to the GOP as you showed time and time again that you cared not for Christianity but the socialist creed above all
never forget that the former saudi regime— the one that was run by alwaleed is no more, and the money for the anti-semite madrassahs and terror networks has dried up... thus also the democrats enabling money. It’s under new management- Bin Salman. Thus, the Carter center is no longer 80 percent funded by Saudis.
So now he says his pro-israel stance drove the evangelicals to the GOP(e)? What a loon. He never had a pro-israel stance— he did like Fidel Castro though, and Maduro and Chavez and any ==any dictator socialists in the turd world. What a delusional old man. who is trying to weasel into the ivanka/kushner part of trump world courting away repub votes for whatever loon he’ll support. Dems are really screwed up. Keep it up Donald.
Well if this is true he did manage to accomplish one good thing while he was in office, but that would be the only one. What a loser. He needs an ‘L’ tattooed on his forehead to have a little truth in advertising.
Proof is that BS about Zionist Christians wanting israeli jews to convert.... right, yup.
What a hateful old man. And... piss poor “engineer”. GA still hates him, only marginally less than obamaumao.
BTW, Jimmy, thanks a metric phuck-ton for Iran - the gift that keeps on giving. You moron, you weak-kneed, weak-minded appeaser of tyrants, you imbecilic anti-Semite.
I’m sorry that you actually lived long enough for us to have a President who displaced you from what looked like your permanent position as this country’s worst President EVAH...but as long as you’re still alive, stick around for a while and watch Donald Trump move our embassy to Jerusalem in 10 days, and hang on for a little while longer until Trump dismantles Iran (maybe with a little help from Israel). I want you to see your crappy, mediocre little legacy torn asunder by Trump, just like Obama’s.
That’s about as stupid as neoyankee tripe said often here via national review and dinesh dstupid that the white south turned GOP because either Yankees moved south or Dem south died
Given I lived that era in the south I know why
The democrat party of Scoop Jackson and Eastland and Thurmond and Stennis etc turned into McGovern et al
And the Rockefeller GOP that had vanquished southern loved Goldwater was supplanted by Magnus
Carter was the last decent showing...I think Clinton carried a few southern states
Now northern immigration has turned Virginia and North Carolina and Florida back Dem trending again
But Trump altered some of that yet again
Evangelicals don’t vote strictly on Israel....this fixation on Israel as a Rapture pet is kind of new
Southern baptist didn’t harp on it in my youth like Hageeism does now
It was more about geography then
Gog and Magog
Jimmah personifies weakness and ineptitude, and his party is not exactly friendly toward religious conservatives. Perhaps those are the real reasons.
As usual, he’s full of BS and just needs to go away.
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