Posted on 10/13/2007 3:40:48 PM PDT by EveningStar
...The issue with Coulter is not whether she can sell books, but whether she helps or hurts the side of the political debate she claims to support. In my opinion, Coulter has never been a big help to the effort to build a conservative and Republican majority. Her most recent comments on the relationship of Christianity to Judaism, made on the CNBC show " The Big Idea" with Donnie Deutsch on Monday of this week , may prove particularly damaging...
At a time when party affiliation is fraying and a third of Americans consider themselves independent, to build a majority of 50% plus one requires persuasion. Independents will not accept all parts of either party's platform or approach but will choose a candidate for office based on which issues matter to them, and whether one or the other party connects with them on those issues. It is a skill to disagree at times without being disagreeable. Ronald Reagan had it, and it is one of the reasons he became so popular and patched together a large winning coalition . Coulter has clearly decided there is no economic advantage for her in this approach...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Nope,
because I’ve known too may PC’s who were monsters and jerks....and that was before I was 12.
I decided there had to be a more decent way to live life....best decision I ever made.
But anyhow, I have no respect for assholes, no matter what the words are, if the spirit of the law isn’t there, then spouting off the law is worthless.
There is no love in AC’s heart for anyone but Ann.
Oh, I don't think he can avoid offending the extremists like Dobson. But the rest will be very receptive to a message of respect for folks who don't share one's religion but who are nonetheless good, law abiding Americans.
Don’t worry about Dobson, the elites have already made sure he (and his follower) are gone.
Er, no. Read the Bible.
God does not want or need to have people like you adding or subtracting from His Scriptures.
He doesn't want anyone to ("Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar. " Proverbs 30:5-6) --but I am adding nothing:
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God." John 3:16-21.
"Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him." John 14:6-7
I can provide more, if you would like
his followers that should read.
I’ve thought exactly the same thing....
she almost comes off as a parody of conservatism at times.....like a SNL skit.
Yeah. I've noticed it myself, a distinct intrusion of thin-skinned panty-waists lately. Probably a "Fall Offensive" from the hermaphrodite left.
"Danny is a moron. A hyper-sensitive moron."
No doubt about it. Do those here with similar agendas think we aren't going to do our own checking?
Apparently then, there are "Jewish households" with way too much time on their hands. I for one think Jews have more serious things to talk about, like Ahmadinejad's promise to wipe them out. I think you are full of it and I don't believe you.
Look,
4, hell, even two years ago, I was a huge fan of Anns. No one could hold their own in a debate as well as she could. No one could remember and pull stats out of their head like her.
But she got lazy and just threw nasty verbal bombs. Not just at liberals, but folks who pretty much had done nothing more than be liked by someone she was mocking.
I lost all respect for her, and I also saw her become a marginalizing factor..... she doesn’t win ‘converts’ for the cause now adays. Every time she opens her mouth, one more person, poster here, EveryDayJoe on the street says ‘to hell with her’ and loses respect for her and her what she supposedly represents.
Did you read the article?
The issue is whether Ann helps or hinders us when we try to win people over.
I don't think he's making the case that she's not doing what a Christian should, I think he's making the case that she's not helping the conservative movement. Christian and conservative are not synonymous.
I believe you can find something similar to this in John 17. Jesus says he wants us sanctified, which means "perfected." I haven't yet looked at other translations, but that's the way it is printed in NKJV. When you take Jesus as Saviour, you are said to be "Justified", which means you could die at that moment and go to heaven. After you become justified you are supposed to be "sanctified", which means becoming like Christ. When you die and get your reward, you will be "glorified", which means you will be like Christ in heaven. Being Holy doesn't mean being good, it means being "set apart". We are a Holy people because we belong to God, not because we have done something good. Sanctification is the "race" Paul talked about completing when he ran a good race. Sanctification means you are perfecting yourself like Christ. The more you become like Christ, the more perfect you are. The end result for anyones life should be striving to be Christ like.
What she said was perfectly fine and actually a kind statement. If you love somebody, wouldn't it be more loving to pray for them to stop sinning? This is why Christians pray for women to NOT have abortions and for homosexuals to change their ways. Of course when they find a Christian doesn't accept their life choices, they get angry, just like this guy did. He must believe being non perfected is better. Sinners want to keep sinning and for God to overlook it. Even a saved Christian sins, but the difference is the Christian wants to stop and be more like Christ. A pagan says, "To Hell with all the Christians, If God doesn't like me for who I am, then I'll go to Hell because I want to be with a god that puts up with my crap." It has nothing to do with Christians or Ann. It has everything to do with God and non believers.
As a Christian, once you are "born again", you join God's family. The Bible says you are "grafted" in, or adopted. That means you are a "perfected Jew". Jesus is a Jew. The "chosen people" are Jews. That doesn't mean all Jews are automatically going to heaven. Being "chosen" just means they have the oracles of God given to them. What good is a Buddhist prophet? They are not from the God of the Bible. Jesus was revealed through the Jews, even though they don't accept Him as Messiah.
In short, being perfected is Gods prayer for His people and Ann saying she wished that for the Jews is no slight. If you aren't perfected, you aren't God's people. There are many verses in the Bible that young Christians still on milk have trouble with. On of them is understanding that we are in Heaven( right now in the mind of God), and we are just like Christ. When we were chosen as God's children, we became just like Christ in the heart of God. There is nothing you can do now to be pried from the hand of God. You are perfect in His eyes. We still see the sin and faults, but He doesn't. We are at God's right hand right now, even though we are still here. God doesn't have time. He was, is, and is forever. Another is explaining God as in 3 parts. Try explaining to a non believer that you are monotheistic, but God is The Holy Spirit, The Father, and The Son, and all are One and each one is God. Jesus said to his disciples, "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father." "I and the Father are one". "I must leave, but I will send another."
These are not simple concepts, but must be taken on faith until you are clear on them. It's the same with "perfection". You must look at it from the mind of God. That is the "humbled" part you speak of. We see sin and failure, He see's triumph and success. It's already done. "Finished", as Christ would say. He did it, not us.
"Be therefore perfect, as I am perfect".........God
That's very likely the deciding vote in Florida.
“I’d suspect the number of leftists, moderates, or independents she’s brought to conservatism is precisely zero.”
Who needs moderates and independents? Or even rinos?
This time around, conservatives are planning on going with only a core group of the “perfected.”
I have an advance idea, of the results, too.
Dinner conversation can be simply “Well, how much are we goingn to donate to the Republican Party this year?”
“Not a dime! Pass the matzos please.”
Pretty nasty and over in 5 seconds.
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