230 posted on Fri Apr 13 2012 14:43:51 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Nobama_ever: “Lol. Agreed, but at the time, Carter was seen as a better representation of Christian principles to evangelical groups because Reagan was divorced! Now we all know it’s a farce to think Carter was more religious...he’s an anti-semite and hardly a decent man!”
Like many liberals, Jimmy Carter's views have gotten worse over the years.
I don't know for sure whether Carter supported homosexual marriage during the 1976 election, but if he did, he certainly didn't talk about it and the millions of evangelicals who voted for him as the “Christian candidate” running against Gerald Ford didn't know that. Certainly there were warning signs with Carter, but nothing that extreme or that obvious.
The time between the 1976 and 1980 elections is generally considered a watershed for traditional Southern Democrats, when evangelicals realized that it's important to vote according to Christian principles and that casting their votes for a professing born-again believer wasn't always the best way to exercise those principles.
259 posted on Sat Apr 14 2012 00:08:54 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Mariner: “SoCons need to get over this idea that they will determine who the GOP nominee and POTUS will be. They are 10% of the general election vote. They hold less clout then blacks in the Democratic Party...and don't have even 10% of the sympathizers of the blacks. I'm not SoCons should reduce their voice or demand. I'm saying folks are waking up to the numbers and calculating otherwise. We'll see if they're wrong. I don't think they are. SoCons that are conservatives will vote GOP. SoCons that are liberal will vote Democrat.”
You may be right.
The national media after the 2010 election spent a lot of time talking about how the conservative movement's “foot soldiers” were no longer Christian conservatives but rather secular conservative Tea Partiers. Obviously there's a lot of overlap between the two groups, but they're not identical and there are important differences in their emphasis.
To get someone like Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee indicates a triumph of the economic conservative wing of the Republican Party over the social conservatives. I think that is a very, very bad thing.
I don’t think I can call Mittens an economic conservative, he’s not a conservative at all