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Cynthia Tucker: Right-wing Christians now plague GOP
Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | 12/16/07 | Cynthia tucker

Posted on 12/15/2007 4:44:26 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

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The more Cynthia is ignored the shriller and dumber she gets. This editorial also appears to show that she is out of the loop when it comes to Democratic strategists of the MSM who appear to be holding back on religious attacks until their "easy kill" Huckabee gets the nomination.
1 posted on 12/15/2007 4:44:27 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

We’re a plague now, huh.

If we don’t vote for precious willard, we will be sacrificed on the altar of the libral wing of the GOP. I see how it is.


2 posted on 12/15/2007 4:48:33 AM PST by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Time for these folks to stop invoking Christ's name and start listening to Christ's message. Mitt Romney's candidacy should depend on how he leads, not on how he prays.

I'm always amazed at the number of people who aren't Christians and have a cursory or childs sunday school understanding of the bible and the faith.... yet they are completely comfortable telling christians how they are suppose to act and believe if they want to be christians. Non christians who want to define what christianity is. I guess they probably spend their lives talking about other things that they don't understand too.

3 posted on 12/15/2007 4:51:02 AM PST by kjam22 (see me play the guitar here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHy7Cuoucc)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The way I figure it, peoiple who are looking for a saviour to elect often end up with the opposite. German history is a good lesson for that.

People who won’t vote for someone who doesn’t share their specific religious dogma are intolerant, closed-minded bigots. Plain and simple. These people are also not true Americans.

Their highjacking of the Republican party brought us to incompetence and catastrophe that is the Bush administration. Most of W.’s decisions may have been right, but the execution seems to be mostly faith-based. That doesn’t work in the real world.

One’s religious beliefs do not qualify one for anything other than to be a member of that religion.


4 posted on 12/15/2007 4:57:23 AM PST by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit (Most men would rather die, than think. Many do.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Odd the things liberals fear ...

Liberalsim is a disease, it effects the brain first, then takes over the whole body.


5 posted on 12/15/2007 4:58:35 AM PST by Tarpon
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Last I checked evangelicals are voters, same as trial lawyers, union bosses, minorities, homosexuals, Hollywood actors, environmentalist, anti war activist, and every other click that the Democrat party cowtows to. But some how it is perfectly fine for them to suck up to them.


6 posted on 12/15/2007 5:00:30 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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Cynthia Tucker cares about conservatives?

I’m looking forward to the “Multi-Colored Bigots plague Dems” column.

7 posted on 12/15/2007 5:05:14 AM PST by RGSpincich
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For many sophisticated conservatives, Mitt Romney is an appealing presidential candidate.

That ought to tell you everything you need to know about this article and Mitt Romney. Liberal MSM code words for "if conservatives were more intelligent they would be liberals and would, of course, be backing Mitt Romney."

8 posted on 12/15/2007 5:05:16 AM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
These people are also not true Americans

Are you not a German living in Germany?
Or, are you an American living in Germany?

Either way, you have a lot of gall suggesting who is a "true American" and who is not.

9 posted on 12/15/2007 5:05:30 AM PST by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit

Blaming Christians for the Bush administrations ills is pretty ridiculous, would you care to elaborate on that. What have Christians done for example to keep him from securing the borders or cutting spending or pardoning border patrol agents not increasing the size of government.


10 posted on 12/15/2007 5:06:07 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Huckabee: The GOP’s ticket to ride...over a cliff.


11 posted on 12/15/2007 5:07:32 AM PST by Dagnabitt (End the GOP Presidency - Nominate Huckabee!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Though the GOP was historically known for fiscal conservatism and government restraint, party strategists decided back in the 1980s to link arms with Christian zealots to secure the votes of their flocks.

This is the MSM template; ignorant and stupid, but wholly revealing about how the other side thinks.

What actually happened, of course, was an accelerating modernist assault from the 1960's forward on traditional values and practices. This occured on many fronts, which for simplicity's sake we tend to combine into the generic "culture war." The leftist transposition is to assert that Christian conservatives are the aggressors in this, but it is of course the other way around.

Christian conservatives, many of them historically democrats or politically uninvolved, gravitated naturally to the Republican Party because the GOP wasn't excusing the drug culture, turning a blind eye to the crime epidemic, and pushing abortion, condoms in third grade, public profanity, etc. Pretty simple.

12 posted on 12/15/2007 5:09:15 AM PST by sphinx
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit

Your post strikes me as being from someone who receives little information about America that hasn’t come through the Democrat media’s filter.


13 posted on 12/15/2007 5:10:05 AM PST by EternalVigilance ("Trust in God but empty the clip." - cornfedcowboy)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The idea of electing a Mormon president would bother people of mroe categories than Christians or “right-wing Christians(TM)”. The LDS conception of theology is vanishingly close to what most people call science fiction. The good news for Mormons is that most people simply do not give a rat’s *** over theology; the LDS church serves mainly as a support group for middle class people trying to raise families, and as a counterbalance to the power of the federal govt. in parts of the country in which most of the land is owned by BLAM. Personally I could vote for somebody like Romney who was born into the Mormon faith, but I could not vote for anybody who converted to it after they were 12.


14 posted on 12/15/2007 5:12:40 AM PST by damondonion
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To: Just A Nobody; pissant
PISSANT for President '08

I like your tagline, but Pissant is a little too liberal for me. ;-)

15 posted on 12/15/2007 5:13:25 AM PST by Hardastarboard (DemocraticUnderground.com is an internet hate site.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Are we talking about the same Christian conservatives that brought us Jimmy Carter?


16 posted on 12/15/2007 5:13:45 AM PST by 03A3
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...the Republican Party has employed a deliberate strategy of injecting "moral values" and religious beliefs into political and civic life

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." President John Adams --October 11, 1798

17 posted on 12/15/2007 5:14:53 AM PST by EternalVigilance ("Trust in God but empty the clip." - cornfedcowboy)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Their Christianity brooks no dissent from a rigid and warped reading of the Bible that denounces homosexuality and decries abortion but has little compassion for the poor.

On the contrary, Christianity shows true compassion for the poor. Charity should be a self sacrificing thing not a governmental seizure of assets and redistribution to those deemed worthy. The Christian view on homosexuality is that we should love the sinner but hate the sin. Hatred of homosexuals is not a Christian tenet. The people who engage in it may claim that it is but it is not and we cannot be held responsible for the idiots of the world.

18 posted on 12/15/2007 5:16:07 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: All
MikeHuckabee.com - I Like Mike!
19 posted on 12/15/2007 5:16:12 AM PST by dano1
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So, the MSM promotes Hubkabee in an endless parade of puff pieces, and they put both Huckabee and Romney on magazine front covers both with predominant religious themes, and by doing so THEY attempt to make religion the central theme of the Republican party in this election, and then they discuss it as if they had no role in it happening.

Calling the MSM filth really is much too kind.

20 posted on 12/15/2007 5:17:46 AM PST by Carbonado
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