Posted on 03/26/2016 10:22:03 AM PDT by Timmy
As the father of three daughters, I reserved the right to interview their dates. . . For the next few hours, she would be affected by his ability to drive a car, avoid the bad crowds and stay sober. I wanted to know if he could do it. I wanted to know if he was decent.
This was my word: “decent.” Would he treat my daughter with kindness and respect? Could he be trusted to bring her home on time? In his language, actions and decisions, would he be a decent guy?
Decency mattered to me as a dad, and decency matters to Americans. We take note of the person who pays their debts. . . When the husband honors his wedding vows, when the teacher makes time for the struggling student, when the employee refuses to gossip about her co-worker, when the losing team congratulates the winning team, we can characterize their behavior as decent.
We appreciate decency. We applaud decency. We teach decency. We seek to develop decency.
So why isn’t decency doing better in the presidential race?
The leading Republican candidate to be the next leader of the free world would not pass my decency interview.
I don’t know Mr. Trump. But I’ve been chagrined at his antics. He ridiculed a war hero. He made a mockery of a reporter’s menstrual cycle. He made fun of a disabled reporter. . . He routinely calls people “stupid” and “dummy.”
Such insensitivities wouldn’t be acceptable even for a middle school student body election. But for the Oval Office? And to do so while brandishing a Bible and boasting of his Christian faith?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Lucado has himself been scorned by many of his peers.
More revealing info about the very moral Cruz due out next week.
Well damn Max, what if the wife doesn’t honor her wedding vows?
Max, are you the metro-sexual selling Obamacare?
I think the media is getting rather frustrated. They reported Trump for the crime of not being PC and he wasn’t thrown to the side of the road. They reported Trump for his schoolyard taunts, and again he wasn’t thrown to the side of the road.
Why aren’t we listening to the media who is telling us what to do? This is Hillary’s time...
I figure anyone who wants to be president in 2016 has to have something really, really wrong with them. A guy who goes on reality TV and pro wrestling crappola when he doesn’t really have to, but because he just digs it or something is pretty damn bizarre. But maybe no more bizarre than being a career lawyer politician type, when you think about it.
Freegards
So you think all Christian pastors are pussies? Is that what Trump thinks?
...Gosh, who could ever have *guessed*?
There'll be no one left to oppose her. Maybe some battered-up, wounded, broke object of ridicule that used to be the Republican's hope.
No. That's twhat I think.
Please FO!
Thank you!
I know, but it's really great fun. Kinda like turning on the light and watching the roaches scatter.
That’s rich, someone from the Washington Post lecturing anyone on “decency”.
When rags like that stoop to discussing decency you know Trump has them terrified.
Does the GOP have the guts to stand with a fighter or is it going to cower in the shadows while the Democratmedia enviserates its candidates?
That is the question before us.
Trump’s most appealing quality is his ENEMIES.
I wonder if philanderer Cruz would do any better in Max’s estimation?
Pandering to the endless terrors of the man-hating soccer moms.
And also lying annoy the fact that Trump is the only one who WILL protect the country, starting by identifying the enemy.
Preachers need to leave politics to the men. I wonder who in the election is decent and pure enough for him.
Any different than a guy that wants to be in movies all the time?
Stupid post you did. It’s called life.
And why did Trump do that? Because John McCain disparaged Trump voters. They were "the crazies". Was that decent?
Speaking of decent, was it decent when John McCain dump his disabled wife, who waited for him while he as in Vietnam, as soon as he got back, for Cindy?
How do we know Cruz is any more decent, or even eligible?
Maybe he’d prefer that 18-yo who wanted to be in t!t films. Or the one who suggested having women’s private areas regenerate.
Eewww.
What about an indecency test for the others?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.