Posted on 09/02/2008 2:12:40 PM PDT by Oldie
If you want to know why ... John McCain came to pick a total unknown with a Down Syndrome baby as his replacement as war-president, you have to understand the immense importance of the Christianist base. McCain isn't one of them, however much he tries to re-tell his life-story to make it so. They know it, he knows it, and he needed a religious running mate. He might have succeeded with Pawlenty, who is a solid pick that a mature and responsible campaign would have selected in a heartbeat.
Instead - partly out of insane cynicism (did he really believe Hillary's voters would switch over to vote for Palin?), partly out of a shallow liking for a shallow reading of Palin's record, and partly out of pure negligence - he picked Palin, barely knowing her.
(Excerpt) Read more at andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com ...
Oh, so the real reason for this POS is uncovered. Well, I re-read the article and I can't even find the "shallow explanation" (BTW, he misspells "explaination") he alludes to, so why would I denude the nations forests unnecessarily to buy a book that is likely as vacuous as this article?
Andrew Sullivan appears to suffering from AIDS-Dementia-Complex.
His T-cells have shut down and are calling out Larry Sinclair’s name.
Sullivan isn’t even worth reading, he’s in the same category as Mark Morford and the soon-to-be-incarcerated-for-7-years Bernie Ward.
“Christianist” is Sullivan’s pejorative term for Christians who believe truth exists and they’ve found it, which makes them Taliban-like dangers to civil society because they are intolerant and eeeeeeeeeeeeevil. He uses it where others use “Christian Fundamentalists”—same difference. It’s explained in tortuous detail in his (most recent?) book, the name of which I have, thankfully, forgotten.
Coming from someone as frightfully intolerant as Andrew Sullivan, he must know what he’s talking about.
Your statement assumes that he ever had any.
The extra syllable is kind of like extra chromosomes, doncha know, kind of dancing around in there and making mischief with both the relative integity of the word, and distorting its meaning.
I guess he wants the world to see Christianity as just another "ism"....like communism, marxism, socialism, nazism...
I have been pissed all weekend by the way the MSM has treated Gov. Palin and her family...and then...a local radio announcer put it all in perspective. “This is all they got folks. Trig Palin, Pregnant Bristol Palin, Troopergate, 1986 DUI for Todd Palin. That’s it”
How many other politicians carry such little baggage?
They have nothing else to attack her on. John McCain is brilliant.
The problem is that Andrew wants to have at it with everyone.
That's kind of what I figured. He's no doubt too clever just to dust off the old and honorable pejorative "Christer."
Ignore.
Christ decides who’s a Christian and who’s not, not Mr. Sullivan.
Governor Palin is making them COVET, quite innocently, as in, “thou shalt not COVET your neighbor’s ox, nor his ass, nor his manservant nor his maidservant”. Seems like to me the Liberalists are COVETING John McCain’s Vice-Presidential nominee.
*Note - A lot of Hillary supporters aren’t rabid abortionists.
Twinkie
Stay above the fray. Talk about the issues. If the left is at all calculating, the trash coming from them is to deflect attention from the issues.
Palin is from Alaska and in favor of drilling for oil. If anyone says anything to you about her daughter or her children, simply say, “Yea, but she is in favor of drilling and so am I. On a national issues scale, that is vitally important and I support her.”
If Christians are Christianists are Homosexuals, Homosexualists ?
If I’m a Christianist does that make Andrew a sodomist? I guess that would be sodomist journalist.
The truth about Andrew Sullivan.
Let me be blunt: this man contracted HIV because he was having anal sex with multiple anonymous partners in Washington DC gay bars.
He has no credibility to speak about anyone’s morality or the beliefs of Christians.
Andrew Sullivan is cracking up. It happens.
Yeah, he’s a vicious queen.
I know some gay guys who are switching to McCain/Palin because they can’t stand what the MSM is doing to Palin.
Chivalry and gallantry live on in the hearts of good gay men.
No—they’re FAGGISTS...rhymes with FASCISTS (almost).
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