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Posted on 10/09/2007 7:59:02 AM PDT by Reaganesque
He can save his breath on this Evangelical.
Pander bear.
If only he hadn’t supported homosexual scoutmasters in the past, he wouldn’t need to make overtures. Not listening at this late date Mitt.
Ah, the chorus of open minds...
And that's a good thing.
The disenchanted Evangelicals are not going to throw their support to a liberal.
He certainly is no Reagan.
If you didn't want to actually hear what some (possibly disenchanted) Evangelicals think, then you should have put the normal LDS caucus label on your title.
At least then you would have still felt like he had a shot with this block of voters.
Would that make you happier?
Unfortunately, Romney appears to be the only “top” candidate that evangelicals and true conservatives don’t immediately dismiss out of hand.
This is Duncan Hunter’s opportunity. He needs to out flank Romney. And tonight’s debate is a good opportunity. Chrissy Matheews is obsessed with Evangelicals and putting people into little boxes, so there is guaranteed to be a question about Dobson’s comments.
Hunter needs to step up, talk about his solid record and attack the top tier on their records as RINO libs. And don’t be affraid of the base. Catch the passion of the 30% hardcore conservatives and this whole race changes in one day
No, that would be the chorus of people who aren't fools
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—Disenchanted Evangelicals might drop support for lukewarm, nominal, or possible Christian candidates in favor of a Mormon? That just about would make sense for the members of most gay-ordaining, Evangelical “churches”.
No sale, liberal. I will not vote for a gun grabber.
‘Dobson, the leader of the high-profile Focus on the Family, whose radio program has 1.5 million listeners,’
In other words, the same as Don Imus.
Dobson needs to get his ego in check, quickly.
You're down to Governor Romney and then a whole bunch of folks who have shown no aptitude whatsoever at putting a credible campaign together, much less defending the sanctity of life and the institution of marriage on the most inhospitable terrain in the country, past screw-ups notwithstanding.
It's so clear. You either have on one side those who do no support the Human Life Amendment, the Federal Marriage Amendment, or the No New Taxes Pledge (McCain, Fred and Rudy) or you have those on the other side who have little to no money and no chance of getting elected (everyone else but Mitt).
I like the stands that Mitt has made on the social issues important to me and for that I could vote for him in the general. I am an evangelical.
Now to be frank, Mitts’ problem is that his conversion to the right side of the social issues has been somewhat “conveniently timed” and many, including myself do not trust him as far as we could throw him.
But at least he is “saying” the right things. I just hope he means them.
Amen.
I don’t share the absolute rejection of Fred Thompson that James Dobson and Ann Coulter express so strongly, but I certainly agree that nobody else is joining the party, and we have to pick the guy that is closest to what we believe in and still looks electable and presentable.
I don’t either, but when you are talking to a gay man who is divorced and has custody of his male child, and trying to explain to him why he’s unworthy to serve as a helper in his own child’s scout troop, you begin to realise why some people really hate us.
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