Posted on 01/18/2016 2:15:34 PM PST by Red Steel
It's become a truism this election season that whatever you expect to happen with Donald Trump, you're probably wrong.
So add this to the list of surprises: On Monday, the thrice-married Republican frontrunner, who described himself as pro-choice as recently as 2000, traveled to the heart of conservative evangelism only to be greeted as a conquering hero.
Trump spoke at the Liberty University convocation on Martin Luther King Day. Liberty is the largest Christian university in the world...
So one might have expected that Trump, who declined to name his favorite Bible verse on the campaign trail, would have received a perfunctory welcome from the 11,000-seat auditorium at the school. Instead, university president Jerry Falwell Jr. called Trump a "breath of fresh air" in his introduction, comparing the Republican frontrunner to Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King Jr., and Falwell's own father.
"In my opinion, Mr. Trump lives a life of loving and helping others ...as Jesus taught in the New Testament," Falwell said.
When Trump took the stage after Falwell's fawning opening, he dedicated his "record" attendance at the convocation to Martin Luther King Jr...
Early on in his speech, Trump tailored his message to the crowd and emphasized the power of Christianity in the country. ...
If you look what's going on throughout the world Christianity, it's under siege," Trump continued. "I'm Protestant, I'm very proud of it, Presbyterian to be exact...
Ted Cruz may have been the big loser of the morning. Trump has made clear at Liberty University and in other speeches that he plans to win Iowa, and to fight for the religious voters who have recently elevated his rival.
"I think we could really surprise a lot of people by winning Iowa," Trump said. "And then we're just going to clean the table."
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Amen!!
This great story needs to be posted on this thread....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3385946/posts
“Are you telling me that Cruz SUPPORTED the Victory Mosque at Ground Zero?”
No, no. Read again, it was Grover Norquist. Cruz has signed Norquist’s ‘pledge’, whereby he gets control over these politicians.
“Islam” plans for a Ground Zero Mosque failed....stopped in its tracks by determined New Yorkers....including Donald Trump.
Back then, Donald Trump offered to put up his own money to stop the mosque/community center planned near Ground Zero.”
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Know who led the fight to build that mosque? GROVER NORQUIST
The guy along with Cesar Conda who owns every open border candidate, especially Rubio. Ted Cruz has also signed Norquist’s ‘pledge’...that means they own Cruz too. Trump has NOT signed it.
The Ground Zero Mosque’s Conservative Supporter
Muslim Brotherhood ally Grover Norquist warns the GOP to drop its opposition.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/69572/ground-zero-mosques-conservative-supporter-ryan-mauro
[snip]am Feisal Abdul Rauf and proponents of his plan to build a 13-story Islamic center near Ground Zero are now being helped by Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform and conservative Republican activist. Norquist and his associates are calling on the Republican Party to drop its opposition to the plan, arguing that the GOP is threatening the rights of Muslims and that its criticism will backfire politically.
Norquist and his friends are distributing a letter saying that the Republicans fighting Imam Rauf’s plan are infringing upon religious freedom and are “alienating millions of Arab American and Muslim American voters who believe, as we do, in the principles of our partyâindividual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law.”
Among those signing the letter are Suhail A. Khan, listed as the Chairman of the Conservative Inclusion Coalition and Norquistâs wife, Samah, listed as a Senior Advisor to Arab and Muslim Outreach for the U.S. Agency for International Development under the Bush Administration.
Hi GOPJ. For some reason, some posters are taking my post to mean I suggested Cruz supported the Mosque at Ground zero. To my knowledge he did NOT. Nothing I said implied that he did, but that’s how some Cruzers are spinning it.
Thanks!
Also see #24 and #28:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3385321/posts?page=24#24
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3385321/posts?page=28#28
Don’t worry AuntB - some people work at misunderstanding others... You’re good.
Thanks for the update and additional info. That is just astonishing about Norquist. I’m gobsmacked.
“Thanks for the update and additional info. That is just astonishing about Norquist. Iâm gobsmacked.”
Oh...there is SO much more and it’s so much worse. I researched this traitor for years. These are just the tip of the iceberg. Norquist and Cesar Conda (Rubio’s chief of staff and Mentor to Paul Ryan) along with Steven Moore of the Heritage foundation destroyed prop. 187 in Calif. and have been behind defeating every enforcement measure and writing every amnesty.
Grover Norquist - EVERYTHING that is wrong with the GOP!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2013/03/grover-norquist-everything-that-is.html
Bitter Enders, Unite!!! Guess who’s behind the latest amnesty push???
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2013/04/bitter-enders-unite-guess-whos-behind.html
Turd Blossom Republicans have sold out Conservatives..
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2013/04/turd-blossom-republicans-have-sold-out.html
Oh my goodness! You really have done the legwork...and Norquist really has sold us down the river. What a turncoat! Isn’t it amazing that conservatives have this problem perniciously, but liberals don’t. When’s the last time you heard of a liberal icon being a closet conservative on the sly?
Anyway thanks for all the research and the links. Another GOPe sellout revealed!
“Isnât it amazing that conservatives have this problem perniciously, but liberals donât. Whenâs the last time you heard of a liberal icon being a closet conservative on the sly?”
LOL...I’d never thought of it that way. I’m sure it goes on in the DNC, they’re just probably better at it!
Thank you for posting this. It goes along with Cruz making at least two trips with Glenn Beck to the border to hand out teddy bears to illegals. The Canadian was never getting this Texan's vote for POTUS and just cost him a vote to remain in the Senate.
Thank you, Trump.
Of not everyone...but the MAJORITY do.
First, the ‘millions’ of mohammedans within the U.S., will have to wait until their population tops out over the combined LGBT (blech) cancer in this nation, before they can be heard.
Second, mohammedans ‘engaging in religious freedom’ means that they are complicit with the destruction of The Bill of Rights and supplanting it with THEIR version of theopolitics.
Yes, Trump knows ‘who’ butters America’s bread, even if he plays that close to the vest.
Now, for the rest of America, for everyone that is, ahem, ‘blessed’ with having one of those mohammedan groaning moaning put it out of it’s misery churches, save your money and buy a Husky!
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