Posted on 01/03/2016 11:38:24 AM PST by conservativejoy
Donald Trump was on Face the Nation, and had an epic tantrum. Right now he's so scared of losing to Ted Cruz, he's having to lash out in ridiculous ways. It's interesting seeing what Trump looks like when he's behind, he knows he's behind, and he's wetting-his-pants scared of being the big, fat loser.
Here's the key transcript:
DICKERSON: When you say about Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100%, "Not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba," what does that mean?
TRUMP: Well, it just means that Cuba generally speaking is a Catholic country. And you don't equate evangelicals with Cuba. I don't. I mean, I think of evangelicals, and i have, I guess I am. You know, I'm Presbyterian. I'm Protestant. But I don't see it coming out of Cuba.
DICKERSON: But you're not questioning whether - I mean, as far as you know, he could be more devout than you are.
TRUMP: It's possible. Certainly it's possible. I'm not questioning it. And I say it in a somewhat smiling manner. But there's a little truth to it.
What strikes me first about this is that Trump feels the need to attack Ted Cruz's Christianity as fake. Trump wants you to think that Cruz is a secret Catholic, only pretending to be a Baptist (SBC) in order to get votes in Iowa.
Does anyone actually believe this? If you've ever heard Ted Cruz speak in your life, you know that he's been going to and paying attention in church. His style of speaking is the tell. He gets in your face, he lectures you. He wants you to get right with government. He could sprinkle his speeches with "Can I get an amen?" and it would sound natural. You can't look into his heart and know what he truly believes, but it's obvious he's been going to church and paying attention to his pastors.
But next, it's obvious Trump is pretty out of touch with what's going on in Presbyterianism in America. He's so hot to try to tar Cruz as a secret Catholic, but when given the chance, he's not taking a stand in the great conflict right now in American Presbyterianism. Let me explain.
The biggest Presbyterian Church in our country is the Presbyterian Church (USA). PCUSA currently has about 1.7 million members. That's been dropping for decades, but it started dropping faster in 2012, after the 2011 ratification of Amendment 10-A to the Book of Order, which would allow ordination of non-chaste homosexuals.
The large drop represents entire local churches abandoning PCUSA in favor of the Presbyterian Church in America. PCA takes a much more traditional view on most social issues, and has grown to have about 350,000 members. PCA and PCUSA have had to go to court over the ownership of church buildings and property, of the local congregations who flipped from PCUSA to PCA.
For Trump to speak of himself being Presbyterian, without mentioning which kind of Presbyterian he is, tells me one thing: Trump likely attends church at a PCUSA congregation, which would mean he stuck with the group that permits abortion (it is deemed morally acceptable), homosexual priests, homosexual 'blessings' as pseudo-marriages, and free divorce.
Donald Trump is throwing stones, but the evidence suggests he's got a glass house on this issue. Not a smart tactic, and a mark of scared desperation on his part.
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Because of his rabid mouth, Trump has to win Iowa; nobody else does.
(and he already knows that he is not winning)
You have drawn your conclusions and I have drawn mine. I imagine you also think McCain was a war hero “for being captured?”
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That is the problem to Beelzebub’s gang anyway.
I didn’t say Presbyterians couldn’t attend anything they want to attend. Most Presbyterians aren’t Evangelicals, either, btw, so Trump’s attacks on Cruz for that are ridiculous.
However, I thought it was interesting that he realizes he has alienated Catholics and thought he’d put on a show by attending a mass...but for the first time in his life, he didn’t want the press there because he is busy trying to portray himself as an anti-Catholic Evangelical. Most Evangelicals are not anti-Catholic, and I don’t thing Cruz is, but this is what the non-church attending Trump thinks will sell with them.
I doubt you’d have any idea what over the top really means.
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The fact that he is talking on a subject that can only lose him votes proves that he knows that he is on the steep slippery slope.
Its called Grasping at Straw.
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End Trumpism in America.
Hes as fake as a $3 bill.
You left off the part about them being bused in. :)
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After Cruz wins Iowa, there is no Trump.
It’ll show that he is all vapor.
Nosedive time.
I see no way he alienated Catholics....nor do my Catholic friends.
Non-cburch attending?????? How do you know when and if he attends whichever church? Do you have little spies trailing him every Sunday?
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Immigration has to step aside, until we get the courts back in order.
Otherwise the courts will block every effort to fix immigration.
That means getting congress back in order too. The President can do nothing significant without the congress.
Cruz is the only way.
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The article is all substance.
Trump really made those stupid comments.
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Stop wishing then.
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You have confidence in vapor.
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Trump is killing his chance in NH with these foolish comments.
Everyone can see that he is in full panic mode.
>> I truly don’t understand why denomination/religion has to be a huge factor <<
Then you seem not to know much about how Evangelicals dominate the Iowa GOP caucuses.
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>> “What Trump said was factual” <<
In your bizarre world.
What Trump has foolishly done is inoculate Cruz on all religious questions for the foreseeable future.
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Trump and Huck are both cut out of the same rotted cloth: Soft Democrats that have to run as Republicans to have a chance at office.
OK smarty so there are a lot of Evangelicals in Cuba?
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catnipman has never read the New Testament. (or likely the Old Testiment either; both require confession, and repentance)
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