Posted on 02/04/2008 12:38:24 PM PST by elizabetty
The Reverend Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK), in his capacity as a private citizen, today released this statement regarding tomorrow's primary votes:
"I have spent the last 33 years as an active evangelical Christian. I am an ordained evangelical minister. I graduated from an evangelical Bible college and an evangelical seminary. I serve on the board of America's oldest association of evangelical church leaders, and I head one of the most active evangelical ministries in Washington, DC.
"I have thought long and hard about the upcoming elections. I have prayed earnestly about them, and I have met many of the candidates and their top campaign people and I have studied their platforms and policy proposals.
"After careful and prayerful consideration, I have concluded that an evangelical vote for Mike Huckabee is a vote for John McCain, and a vote for John McCain will be a disaster for this country
~snip~ "Evangelicals must choose wisely from among candidates other than Mike Huckabee and John McCain as they vote tomorrow, February 5."
(Excerpt) Read more at christiannewswire.com ...
Lets not pretend. Lets speak to the truth.
If you like your politicians without integrity, without conviction and with no principles, then Willard the myth is your guy.
Bottom line. Neither McCain, Huckabee or Romney represent conservatism and not one of them should be the GOP nominee.
My favorite part of this article “The Reverend Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK), in his capacity as a private citizen”.
Given that he is not a government figure, he has no capacity other than that of a private citizen. That he leads the organizations that he does, doesn’t change that fact.
I suggest a new tactic for all the Huck conservative Evangelical Premillennial Christians out there:
#1. Huck won’t win. At least it appears that way.
#2. McCain is a RINO.
#3. Romney is well, a Mormon.
Soooo,....
vote for Hillary. You know you all said she was the force behind Bill and you know you all said she was the anti-Christ. So, put her in office, get the Apocalypse going, and usher in the New Heavens and New Earth. As a bonus, if you are a Dispensational Premill, you don’t have to even endure her reign of terror.
So, polish off your “Evangelicals for Hillary and the Apocalypse buttons” and get busy ushering in the Second coming of Christ.
What other choices do we have though? Even if there is no winner, what are the chances of them drafting a conservative.
A lot of FReepers, including Jim, are praying for a brokered convention and a last ditch effort to get a conservative nominated. Sounds far fetched to me, but with the wild nature of this years campaign, I guess anything is possible.
For now, I’ll take a wait and see attitude at this point and keep exposing the three main GOP choices for what they really are, moderate-centrist-liberal candidates. I don’t like McCain, Romney or Huckabee being shoved down the throats of Republican primary voters by the elitist powers that be.
You’ve got your facts about Schenck seriously wrong. Try reading the article you linked to.
Romney
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me ask one question about abortion. Then I want to turn to Iraq. You're for a constitutional amendment banning abortion, with some exceptions for life and rape and incest.
MCCAIN: Rape, incest and the life of the mother. Yes.
McCain flipped on funding embryonic stem cell research.
Initially supporting the President's restriction as to federal funding, McCain then asked for an expansion to include wider research saying, "I believe that we need to fund this. This is a tough issue for those of us in the pro-life community. I would remind you that these stem cells are either going to be discarded or perpetually frozen. We need to do what we can to relieve human suffering. It's a tough issue. I support federal funding." (Source: 2007 GOP primary debate, at Reagan library, hosted by MSNBC May 3, 2007).
“What other choices do we have though? Even if there is no winner, what are the chances of them drafting a conservative.”
That’s the problem. The liberal media gave us this set of candidates last January (2007). i would love to see some names floated that are true conservative Republicans with some leadership credentials..This lack of leadership issue is what plagued Hunter and Thomas. and why has not the RNC done anything with a slate of candidates? Why are they just sitting back and letting MSNBC do the selecting?
Thanks much. I hadn’t heard about anything from Schenck in a long time, but back when I followed his doings he was among the most courageous of our culture warriors.
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Rob Schenck is not president of Right Wing watch or affiliated with People for American Way. Apparently, he was quoted by Right Wing Watch, and I misread the google reference.
He is President of Faith in Action and the National Clergy council, both of which he founded. So I retract my prior statements about him with apologies.
Retracted in post 33’
retracted in post 33
These guys know Mitt better than we do.
I think that you are a bit naive. I think that Huckabee is in this thing precisely to take votes away from Romney.
I've heard others say it (Huckabee is in cahoots with McCain) and go on about it (largely on the radio) and that makes sense to me.
You'll of course think that I am the naive one, but in the end, Huckabee does not have even a remote chance of becoming President, where Romney does, or did.
Actually, the three prongs of conservatism, are all intimately connected.
Economic conservatism is as important as social conservatism because your economic independence is what allows you to keep your conservative social values.
When you have a economically interventionist government that stretch its fingers into every aspect of your life, you have little choice but to adopt the values that whomever is in control of the government.
Why do you think the inner cities is 95% democratic. It’s because they suck at the teat of government entitlements and hence they have no choice but to support those who keep those programs going, and hence adopt all their social values in order to do so. Jesse Jackson was at one point pro-life in the 70s.
Preserving our economic freedom and reducing government regulations is essential to conservative values. Reagan had conservative social values, but the most important thing he did domestically was to reduce taxes and getting rid of regulations such as the Fairness Doctrine. Which allowed free enterprise to blossom, and in turn helped grassroots values conservatives to find a voice away from the MSM.
Strong National Defense, Free Market Economics, and Traditional Moral Values, they either survive together, or die apart. They are all important, the best candidate is the one who has the best combination of all three, not one who is simply great on one but awful on the others.
You left that off of your list.
You forgot the scarcasm tags. At least, I hope you forgot them. I would hate to think that someone would vote on such a superficial basis.
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