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Posted on 03/23/2007 2:00:52 PM PDT by veronica
Conservative Evangelical Christian voters have come a long way in a short time. From their nearly unanimous condemnation of Bill Clinton for his extramarital affairs, a growing number of these "pro-family" voters appear ready to accept several Republican presidential candidates who do not share their ideal of marriage and faith.
Among those seriously under consideration by these church-going folks is former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has been married three times and who had an affair with the woman now his wife when he was married to wife number two. The second wife, Donna Hanover, once recorded a political commercial for Giuliani, touting his virtues as a husband. She called him "honest and very kind" and "this is the kind of man I wanted to be the father of my children" and "Rudy is such a great Dad." It's on YouTube. In recent days we've learned from his son Andrew that he and his father are estranged, but that they're working on it. Andrew says he got his values from his mother.
Another of the thrice married is former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who, last week, trod the Damascus Road to Colorado Springs. On the syndicated radio program of psychologist James Dobson, Gingrich confessed that he had an extramarital affair with the woman to whom he is now married while he was married to his second wife. Gingrich acknowledged not living up to his own standards, or God's.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
More - "While "character issues" can overlap with other concerns when considering for whom to vote, conservative evangelicals are beginning to see them as less important than who can meet the multiple challenges faced by the nation. Put it this way: if you are about to have major surgery and your only choice was a church-going doctor with a high mortality rate, or an agnostic with a high success record, which would it be? I'd choose the agnostic."
More - "While "character issues" can overlap with other concerns when considering for whom to vote, conservative evangelicals are beginning to see them as less important than who can meet the multiple challenges faced by the nation. Put it this way: if you are about to have major surgery and your only choice was a church-going doctor with a high mortality rate, or an agnostic with a high success record, which would it be? I'd choose the agnostic."
More - "While "character issues" can overlap with other concerns when considering for whom to vote, conservative evangelicals are beginning to see them as less important than who can meet the multiple challenges faced by the nation. Put it this way: if you are about to have major surgery and your only choice was a church-going doctor with a high mortality rate, or an agnostic with a high success record, which would it be? I'd choose the agnostic."
Sorry for the triple post. Don't know how that happened!
Does the Dallas Morning News still run announcements of "gay marriages"?
Fred Dalton Thompson.
Pass it on.
Principled conservatives will not support Rudy McRomney.
If there is a choice between a liberal scumbag and a conservative scumbag, I will vote for the conservative scumbag every time.
So far, we pretty much have all liberal scumbags in the race.
Cal Thomas can't make up his mind what he thinks these days. Toss him back in that soup kitchen and don't let him out again.
Is it maturing when one accepts that "Until death do us part" really meant, "Until divorce do us part" on something that is perhaps the second most important vow (with accepting Christ as the first)?
I would suggest it shows people have grown to realize the quality of people wanting to run the country has dramatically decreased over time and they are trying to make do with the best of the worst.
Uh-oh. Cal's in BIG trouble with the Puritans around here.
Treasonous Liberal Ping!!
With all due respect to Cal, it is giving far too much credit to Clinton to refer to his extramarital shenanigans as "affairs." The term is actually short for "love affair," and it is pretty difficult to use that term for Bill's relationship with Monica.
Clinton's relationships with women were invariably short and intensely exploitative. Had he been a conservative Republican the feminists would have given birth to an entire herd of cows over this issue, but since he was a Democrat he got a pass.
I don't approve of Giulani's or Newt's behavior, but each married the woman he had a (real) love affair with and neither appears to be a serial exploiter of less powerful women.
This election has zero to do with whether the candidate is a clean cut male over six feet tall with a pretty wife, 2.5 kids and dog or what church they claim to belong to. We want a Conservative. We don't want a faux Christian like Jimmy Carter, we don't want a Socialist snake oil salesman like Clinton, and we are sick to damn death of W and his "compassionate conservatism." We refuse to be spoon-fed the lunatic McCain, the pretty boy Romney, or the Rockefeller Republican Rudy.
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