You need to peruse the Ron Paul Forums occasionally, then.
Comments like “only” Ron Paul can “save us now” are worshipful.
While not all purists are worshipful, there tends to be a lot of it among their ranks as well. They decide what is perfect in their eyes and only ONE candidate will do. And if that candidate doesn’t get the nomination, they either won’t vote or they’ll write the candidate’s name in.
It’s rampant.
There are a couple in the current field I flat-out will not vote for. Mitt Romney is the main one. The other two are non-starters and have no chance of getting the nomination.
But the rest of them are all still under review as far as I’m concerned and will remain so throughout the primary campaign season.
However, none of them are perfect and none match my idealogy exactly. People who expect that are not living in reality and tend to hold their selected candidate in a worshipful gaze.
I don’t confuse passion for a candidate, or thinking that a candidate who has firm extreme views like Paul does, being described by his rabid supporters as “the only one [whose solutions] can save us” with “worship”.
On a conservative forum ‘worship’ is usually devoted to God, that is why I said that Obama is the only candidate that I recall being “worshipped”, thought of as a deity.
“There are a couple in the current field I flat-out will not vote for. Mitt Romney is the main one. “
Hey, some common ground. Romney is one of the only candidates I won’t vote for under any circumstance as well.