Posted on 09/13/2007 11:56:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Many on the Christian right are taking a hard look at Fred "The Tennessee Stud" Thompson, and wondering just how much enthusiasm they can muster for the man. Recent articles chronicle a clear desire for a Republican candidate who, like George W. Bush before him, will trod the well-worn path that non-believer Karl Rove cut in the ticket separating politics from religion. So, is Thompson their man?
Indeed, the subject of religion came up a lot yesterday on the campaign trail, and I'm happy to report that Thompson doesn't seem to have much of an appetite for it. From the AP:
Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson, who has based his campaign on appealing to conservative voters, said he isn't a regular churchgoer and doesn't plan to speak about his religion on the stump...
Talking to reporters later, Thompson, a former Tennesse senator, said his church attendance "varies."
"I attend church when I'm in Tennesse. I'm in McLean right now," he said referring to the Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., where he lives. "I don't attend regularly when I'm up there."
Good for him. A return to a Ronald Reagan-like skepticism of wearing your religion on your sleeve has certainly been long in coming. Still, one has to wonder a little at Mr. Thompson's rather self-assured take on his current standing with God.
"I know that I'm right with God and the people I love," he said in Greenville. It's "just the way I am not to talk about some of these things."
Funny to hear someone talk about subjects that they aren't one to talk about. And I am interested to know how he knows that he's right with God. Is that like God telling George Bush that invading Iraq was the right thing to do? Small questions, I guess. The larger issue remains that James Dobson and his throngs of hard-core Christian voters still don't have their poster-child.
Little does the media understand, but if Hillary went to Church everyday, that would not make her anymore liked by Christian Conservatives.
>The larger issue is that James Dobson and his throngs of Christian voters still don’t have their poster-child.<
Oh, but they just might after the 9/17 Values Voters debate.
Plus, it would cause her pants suit to catch fire.
I don’t know, but I am willing to vote for a candidate who does not plan to have prayer breakfasts, as long as he is not a Muslim.
I say, give me a candidate who will follow the Constitution. I’ll handle following the Bible for myself...
... shows the author to be a typical koolaid drinker regurgitating lies that have been completely debunked.
Gawd, they are persistant, aren't they? It is sooooo tiring ... and so fruitless to keep correcting them on so many things day in and day out. This country needs some way to make the perpetration of such garbage a very uncomfortable thing to do.
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