Posted on 12/03/2009 8:19:42 AM PST by caddystacks
Going Rogue brims with testimony about Palin's Christian faith. Its opening pages relate how Palin's daughter Piper literally became the poster child for the antiabortion group Alaska Right to Life by posing for a picture with "pretend angel wings fastened to her soft shoulders."
The book's final paragraph, meanwhile, reads like an altar call, the part of a church service when pew sitters are invited to commit their lives to Christ. "I do know there is a God," the former Alaska governor writes. "My life is in his hands. I encourage readers to do what I did many years ago, invite Him in to take over."
Though most of the talk surrounding the release of Going Rogue revolves around how it affects Palin's standing as a political figure, including her chances of winning the White House, should she choose to run, the book is as much poised to heighten Palin's profile as a Christian leader. "It's a mistake to frame all this in the context of her potential candidacy," Mark DeMoss, one of the country's top Christian media specialists, says of Going Rogue. "She wants to tell her story and the story of her personal faith journey."
At a time when politically conservative evangelicals lack a national figurehead, Palin's ability to connect with them could also deepen her appeal to a key part of the Republican base. "Christian audiences could respond to this like they did when George W. Bush talked about his faith," says John Green, a religion and politics expert at the University of Akron. "This community takes faith very seriously and likes people who talk about their faith journey."
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US SPEWS and WORLD PERVERT?
... kidding, right?
The book's final paragraph, meanwhile, reads like an altar call, the part of a church service when pew sitters are invited to commit their lives to Christ.
These folks are so distant from the religious, that they think they need to explain what an altar call is.
Talk about outing yourself...
The “I hate James Dobson” crowd here at Free Republic alone would send her spiralling to the dumps.
She just wrote that so the secular humanists would all have a stroke. /sarc
I’m quite sure USN&WR intends this in a perjorative way, but some things are more important than politics. I wholly laud Palin for not cowtowing to the MSM by shrinking back from her faith. Although the left will certainly work to smear her as a Taliban wannabe, the fact is, is that Palin is a courageous lion. Sure would like to see some men step up with half the courage Palin has already demonstrated.
And it’s those who know nothing about Dobson who hate him the most.
Huckabee will be the next James Dobson.
That’s perfect.
We all hate Huckabee already.
/s
Excellent post, FrankR! (J. Frank, sitting on my knee, thinks so, too. He also thinks he’d like to put the keyboard in his mouth ...)
Has she applied to be CEO of Focus on the Family?
What does that mean?
Not after granting clemency to the cop killer he won't be. James Dobson has a brain.
BWAH! Huckabee will be the next Jeremiah Wright.
I wish everyone would stop the comparisons. At the end of the day, she is her own woman and will be completely different than those she's being compared with.
Thanks...I just thought of a good closing line I should have used...”Liberalism is the new Communism”.
I think she will be more like Teddy Roosevelt. She is not blindly pro business, she is not blindly pro free trade, she believes in small government, lower taxes, less regulations, but she is not naive to believe that corporations and businesses should be unmonitored. She dealt with big business and politician corruption/collaboration in Alaska and she kicked them all in the you know where. I think behind the scenes Wall Street and big business are funding and egging the left, RINO’s and corporate owned MSM to attack her at every level. They know what would happen to them (big business and Wall Street) if Gov Palin becomes POTUS. Unlike Obama who is brought and paid for by Wall Street, Gov Palin will do what every suffering Main Street American want, she will come after them for what they did to the US economy.
Yup - and how many know that "Pistol" Pete Maravich died in Dobson's arms during a pick-up basketball game?
And Dobson just shares common-sense Biblical solutions to life issues - how bloody divisive could that be?
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