Posted on 12/23/2015 6:41:23 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Franklin Graham has resigned from the Republican Party and become an independent, declaring that "I have no hope in the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, or tea party to do what is best for America.
"Unless more godly men and women get in this process and change this wicked system, our country is in for trouble," Graham, 63, wrote on Facebook.
Graham called on "Christians, even pastors, across the country to pray about running for office where they can have an impact.
"We need mayors, country commissioners, city council members, school board members who will uphold biblical values."
The budget deal was widely slammed by Republicans and conservatives last week, who charged congressional leaders — including new House Speaker Paul Ryan — with "betrayal" for putting through a spending plan that financed many of President Barack Obama's programs.
Besides Planned Parenthood, other Obama efforts that were fully financed under the deal were Obamacare, sanctuary cities, climate change, refugee resettlement programs — and well as an increase in foreign worker visas.
"It is as though Nancy Pelosi is still running the House and Harry Reid is still running the Senate," radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh charged on Friday. He was referring to the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate.
"'Betrayed' is not even the word here," he said.
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While I understand Franklin’s gesture, I hope he doesn’t think he amounts to anything more than a photo op to the GOPe. Same goes for the conservative base.
Now, if a level one donor made the same announcement...
As have many of us
“To be the Democrat I always was and now to finally be who I really am”
It is time to face the fact that the DemocRats have taken over the Republican party. Every RINO in it needs to be voted out.
“Unless more godly men and women get in this process and change this wicked system, our country is in for trouble,”
I agree. The system as it currently is...is dead.
In many states, if you’re not a Republican, you can’t vote in Republican primaries. That’s the only reason I’m still in.
what a jerk
Afterwards to be tarred and feathered.
What Republican Party?
I agree too. Things are too far gone.
Same reason here.
But given the overt targeting that Registered Republicans are about to receive, I may go Galt with my voting.
Sometimes it’s possible to be so “outwardly Christian” that one doesn’t read where the Spirit wants to be, which is sometimes a direct sacrificial investment.
If anything, one might want to have a GOP registration in a place where it would be possible to cast a primary vote for one of the more promising front runners, say Cruz (or Trump). God’s power is made perfect in weakness, and politics runs in phases even in a secular cycle. It looks like a demoralization problem here. Frankly,
I would have stayed, but with many troubled prayers and warnings. Jeremiah didn’t book out on Jerusalem, after all. Even when it got smashed.
The one that has a lot of folks (though not all by any means) thinking you can pick up a poop by its clean end.
That said, it’s better this way (they can learn) than to be producing said poops and calling them chocolate decadence.
I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I think it’s obvious the Republican party is falling apart.
Oh, me too. If Rob Portman thinks he’ll get my vote again, he’s in for a rude awakening. And right now, he’s trailing and needs every vote he can get.
Parties always were a secondary thing. George Washington hated the idea. He was high minded enough about things faith to know this was going to produce followings that were about men, which would make American devotion lukewarm. George Washington might have been too good for America, it didn’t deserve him.
That said, there is nothing, nothing at all, except its own stubborn will, preventing America from learning the lesson afresh that God needs to be at the helm. Even if we have things called parties, God needs to be allowed to be the Lord over their affairs too.
He’s a man of God. He holds sway with The Almighty, The Power. It is an allusion that man has power. If people would realize that it is God who decides what happens and doesn’t, often based upon our faith as Christians and the decisions we make in life, people would live far different lives. I hope he is the beginning of an avalanche of faithful, God inspired decisions from the people of God.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
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