Posted on 09/07/2008 9:58:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
EP News--- Family Research Council Tony Perkins said, “It’s obviously an outstanding choice. Very smart. Very strategic. Those who might have voted for Obama only because they wanted to be a part of something historic can now vote for the Republicans for the same reason.”
Richard Viguerie, the conservative icon who has been brutally critical of McCain, was even more effusive, “She’s perfect.”
Setting aside the doctrine of original sin for a moment, religious conservatives do think the selection of Sarah Palin as the vice presidential candidate is pretty near perfect. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission, was not the only person to observe that she was “straight out of veep central casting.” She’s active in an evangelical church. She has five children, including one with Down’s Syndrome that she chose to give birth to even though she knew the child would be a Down’s baby. And, of course, she’s a woman.
Even Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who made national headlines when he said he could not support McCain “under any circumstances” admitted that this was a circumstance that he did not think was possible. Sources close to Dobson told EP News that in a private meeting on the afternoon of the Palin announcement he said he would reconsider his position on McCain.
Dobson called Palin “a genuine reformer. A deeply committed Christian.” On a special Focus Action radio broadcast, Dobson said Palin has helped change his mind on McCain.
“If I went into the polling booth today, I would pull the lever for John McCain,” he said. Dobson applauded the Republican Party’s strong platform plank against destructive embryonic stem-cell research, which uses much stronger language than in years past...
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Jim needs to learn his limitations. He does more harm than good by engaging in politics.
Not to say that Christian Conservatives don't have a right to voice their opinions, but Jim Dobson should not be the messenger.
EV, you must be one who first heard of Sarah Palin last week. Not the case with me. I've actually been an admirer of hers for some time, so sell that boogeyman somewhere else, my friend. She's the real deal.
You’re in for a world of frustration if you think you’re going to pressure John McCain, of all people, into anything once he gains the power he seeks.
We're all frustrated, you more than most by the sound of your piece. Yet, I'm very optimistic about Sarah and as a child of God I will remain optimistic. I know who wins in the end. I've read the book.
Further, do you actually think that John McCain can't be pressed to do the right thing? ROTFLMAO!!! How do you think we got Sarah in the first place?
God bless.
Again, John McCain is still at the head of the ticket, with all the power. That moots everything you said. She could be St. Sarah, and it wouldn’t matter one whit.
Is she going to stop John McCain from forcing through amnesty and everything that goes with it?
Is she going to change his heart about destroying embryos, funding Planned Parenthood, and his belief that states’ rights trump the unalienable right to life?
Is she suddenly going to make him change his mind in regard to his opinion that he’d rather have “clean politics” than the First Amendment?
Is she going to make him understand that the whole global warming scam is nothing more than a global power grab by socialists?
Is she going to make him understand that “reaching across the aisle” is a one-way street in which liberals get everything they want and conservatives get nothing? Sure doesn’t seem like it, since he’s touting that message right now from sea to shining sea.
Of course it matters. It's called the future, EV. And it looks very, very bright with Sarah Palin as the future of the party.
Before John McCain made this most excellent choice for VP, Barak Obama was on his way to the Presidency and perhaps major gains in the House and the Senate. Now? I believe we may even take back the House with the down-ticket effect that Sarah brings to the energized grassroots. Which will have the desired effect for killing amnesty. Without her, amnesty's a done deal by the Democrats. So that's all the more reason to vote for her.
And when, God willing, Sarah becomes the first female President? She stands on every issue exactly where I do. What more could I ask from this election? It's either Obama/Biden or McWhatshisname/Palin who are going to occupy the White House. Out of the four, Palin is the only one worth voting for--the future. Had she not been the choice, there would be nothing worth voting for and I would have done a write-in.
You are dead wrong on this one, EV. But we'll just have to agree to disagree and pray that Obama and Biden stay in the Senate and go back to being in the minority.
Regards to the family!
Say hello to Lucy, Charlie Brown. (See post #36)
As to the rest? Twelve years proved that a mere Republican Congress ain't nearly enough.
Try a bit of optimism, EV. You’ll live longer!
There’s optimism, and there’s foolishness. And trusting the McCain Republican Party is a fool’s errand.
I trust Sarah Palin. And if you don’t, that’s your own fools errand. Breathtakingly foolish, IMNSHO, if you truly believe any of the things you’ve claimed to believe over the years I’ve known you. Pigheaded and silly, to boot!
It’s been fun, but I’ve got a very early day tomorrow, covering a Sarah Palin rally!
Regards.
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