Posted on 08/25/2012 6:34:50 AM PDT by C19fan
Mike Huckabee rallied hundreds of Southern Baptists on a conference call Friday night in support of Todd Akin, offering advice about how they can help the embattled Missouri Senate candidate stay in the race — while acknowledging Akin still may have to bow out.
“This could be a Mt. Carmel moment,” said the former Arkansas governor, referring to the holy battle between Elijah and the prophets of Baal in the book of Kings. “You know, you bring your gods. We’ll bring ours. We’ll see whose God answers the prayers and brings fire from heaven. That’s kind of where I’m praying: that there will be fire from heaven, and we’ll see it clearly, and everyone else will to.”
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If Huckabee and Akin want to play the Elijah card, they should look one chapter later, to 1 Kings 19 (as FReeper Hoodat suggests). There Elijah complains, "I have been very zealous for the Lord. . . .I alone am left, and they seek to take my life." But the Lord reminds Elijah that he has reserved 7,000 in Israel who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
In other words, Todd Akin is not the only pro-life social conservative in Missouri who could do the job. I'm not saying we have 7,000 potential replacements, but we have at least two or three solid pro-life conservatives who could step in and have a better chance of winning (and the sooner, the better).
For Huckabee to try to paint those who have wanted Akin to step aside as "prophets of Baal" is seriously delusional. Indeed, the pagan pro-abortion Democrats want Akin to stay in! He gives them the best chance to win! Conversely, many of us pro-life social conservatives who also understand politics have been wanting Akin to step aside precisely because we see him hurting the cause, not only in Missouri but also nationally.
Now if Akin is still in after September 25, and if he has moved within striking distance in the polls, then I will get the yard sign, etc. And if he's the only choice on November 6, I will still vote for him over McCaskill.
I have seldom read such nonsense, even considering this site which has been quite full on nonsense of late.
Let me explain why. Conservatives, excepting the Akin gang, will not help McCaskill, in fact they want a conservative, pro life candidate who can beat her in November. Many can do this, but Akin cannot.
At least 30 percent of Missouri voters will vote for Akin in November, both those who support him and those urging him to get out of the race. They are called conservatives. 30 percent will vote for McCaskill. They are called liberals. The rest are called independents, moderates, clueless, whatever and they represent 40 percent of the electorate. They will decide the election and they no longer support Akin and nothing is going to make them change their minds at this point, certainly not some knee jerk support of Akin's unfortunate remarks. In fact, that works the other way. Combine that with Akin's lack of money, lack of party support, and multiple opportunities to stick his foot in his mouth yet again and you have what is called a hopeless situation.
So what do Akin's supporters do in the fact of all of this? They pick a fight with conservatives. Real bright. They insist that only they have the ideological purity in the argument and that people arguing electoral reality are unpure and unworthy. See how far that gets you in November.
1000 babies dying everyday but Romney attacks a man who defends those babies. Hummmm really motivating the base to get up and vote
That’s true.
The conservative base is easily susceptible to divide and conquer, psy ops tactics, suggestion, pushing, and mind control.
I left a “not” out of the first one. Saw it while it was still in that “between” state of my screen and FR’s site. I changed it. Clicked. Saw not result and clicked again.
I ended up with 3 posts; two with the NOT and one without.
Or maybe I’m just lying, and I thought it was a really, really, really good point.
:>)
“Well then they will just have to work harder, won’t they?”
Yes, they will. Speaking for myself only, in the next primary I hope that the conservatives of the Show Me State will ask to be shown considerably more.
I’ve never seen it. You’ll have to show it to me.
I’m not from Missouri. :>)
Well, Indiana gave us Lugar for nearly 40 years so I guess they have their work cut out for them as well...
No but the people you claim don’t exist came out in force on Free Republic advocating outlawing contraception on the grounds of being anti-life.
People think all kinds of weird things. But you claimed that there are numbers of people who would prefer that a mother die rather than allow a doctor to end an ectopic pregnancy.
You've been a Freeper for almost a year now. Name one Freeper who has ever espoused that sentiment. Either that or admit you made a mistake.
You claim you interacted with them. Name one. Just one.
You gotta show me, DMan. I’ve never seen it, and I’m here an awful lot.
You are confusing abortifacients with contraceptives. Contraceptives prevent conception. Abortifacients kill babies.
Nope. It was a thread right here where the poster took the position that contraception of all kind should be outlawed. A handful of Freepers took his position.
It was right around the time of the Fluke thing. Don’t know how I’d search for something that long ago.
There is a belief among young highschool/college women that taking their monthly pack of bc pills after a night of unprotected sex will result in a miscarriage or failure to implant or something like that.
My sense is that, if that were the case, they wouldn’t have needed to create RU486. My other sense is that overdosing on any drug might cause physical problems enough to result all kinds of problems.
You’ve gotta do an advanced search on just this website, Dman.
A higher miscarriage rate is something else entirely from “In most cases of legitimate rape, the body’s defenses prevent pregnancy”
Interestingly enough, in his press conference yesterday, Akin basically said that he was going to drop the whole abortion issue, and focus on big government and such.
To undermine the GOP/social conservative voting bloc, and to help Akin raise campaign cash.
OK let’s wait and see if Baal wins this one.
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