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Max Lucado: Trump doesn’t pass the decency test
Washington Post ^ | February 26, 2016 | Max Lucado

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?

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To: Timmy

Lucado has himself been scorned by many of his peers.


21 posted on 03/26/2016 10:31:59 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: jimbo807

More revealing info about the very moral Cruz due out next week.


22 posted on 03/26/2016 10:32:21 AM PDT by dforest (Ted took your money and is laughing all the way to Goldman Sachs)
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To: Timmy

Well damn Max, what if the wife doesn’t honor her wedding vows?

Max, are you the metro-sexual selling Obamacare?


23 posted on 03/26/2016 10:32:59 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Timmy

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...


24 posted on 03/26/2016 10:33:13 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Timmy

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


25 posted on 03/26/2016 10:33:18 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Cowboy Bob
Max is a pussy.

So you think all Christian pastors are pussies? Is that what Trump thinks?

26 posted on 03/26/2016 10:33:23 AM PDT by BigBobber
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To: Timmy

http://jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/Open%20Borders/max_lucado.htm


27 posted on 03/26/2016 10:33:35 AM PDT by Califreak (Madeleine Albright says I'm going to hell. Cruz' dad called me an infidel. Long live the Uniparty!)
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To: Timmy
Look, another Texan for Cruz.

...Gosh, who could ever have *guessed*?

28 posted on 03/26/2016 10:34:13 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Timmy
Somewhere Hillary is rubbing her hands together and saying "excellent!"

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.

29 posted on 03/26/2016 10:34:34 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: BigBobber
Is that what Trump thinks?

No. That's twhat I think.

Please FO!

Thank you!

30 posted on 03/26/2016 10:34:58 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: Washi
Agreed. Brace for the onslaught, though.

I know, but it's really great fun. Kinda like turning on the light and watching the roaches scatter.

31 posted on 03/26/2016 10:37:26 AM PDT by Timmy
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To: Timmy

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.


32 posted on 03/26/2016 10:37:37 AM PDT by arrogantsob (Nationalist, Patriot, Trumpman)
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To: Timmy

I wonder if philanderer Cruz would do any better in Max’s estimation?


33 posted on 03/26/2016 10:37:40 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Timmy

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.


34 posted on 03/26/2016 10:38:02 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Timmy

Preachers need to leave politics to the men. I wonder who in the election is decent and pure enough for him.


35 posted on 03/26/2016 10:38:15 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,)
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To: Ransomed

Any different than a guy that wants to be in movies all the time?

Stupid post you did. It’s called life.


36 posted on 03/26/2016 10:38:59 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Timmy
He ridiculed a war hero.

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?

37 posted on 03/26/2016 10:39:16 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Timmy

How do we know Cruz is any more decent, or even eligible?


38 posted on 03/26/2016 10:39:44 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Governor Bentley must resign!)
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To: Timmy

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.


39 posted on 03/26/2016 10:39:57 AM PDT by Suz in AZ
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To: Timmy

What about an indecency test for the others?


40 posted on 03/26/2016 10:40:39 AM PDT by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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