Posted on 06/25/2014 7:35:18 PM PDT by xzins
Chris McDaniel, onthe blatantly unethical and illegal tactics employed by Thad Cochran and Haley Barbour in the Mississippi GOP runoff Tuesday…
“McDaniel: I am a two-term state senator, I have fought for this party my entire life, I’ve given money…I’ve done everything they’ve asked me to do– and last night, they pulled over 35,000 Democrats into a Republican primary to defeat me…we feel betrayed.
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Hannity: Do you foresee any circumstance under which you would support this guy? Because I don’t think I could do it.
McDaniel: I prayed about it last night…my core principle is gonna have a hard time even looking at politics again.
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Hannity: You sound like you got punched in the gut. You sound like you’ve been betrayed.
McDaniel: Sean, I was…I have fought for these people. These are my colleagues. They are my friends…I don’t understand!
But Ted Cruz has bigger fish to fry… “
“I certainly congratulate my colleague, Thad,” Cruz said on Fox and Friends Wednesday morning, pointing out that the Republican establishment poured millions into the Mississippi race and only won by a thin margin. Cruz reminded the hosts that he did not endorse a candidate in the Mississippi primary, as he promised to stay out of incumbent Senate races.
As does Rand… “
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a potential 2016 presidential contender, declined to support tea party critics of Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran’s efforts to mobilize non-GOP voters to win the Republican nomination.
“I’m for more people voting, not less people voting,” Paul told reporters Wednesday.
Tell me if the following sentence makes sense.
“I believe that abortion and homosexuality are sins so I think we should elect a man responsible for keeping abortion legal, funding it personally and legislating ‘gay rights’ because God approves”
Franklin is a fraud, has been a fraud and will be a fraud as long as he does this crap.
Prove me wrong.
“Franklin Graham was supportive of Romney over Obama in 2012. Does that make him evil?”
No - it makes him wrong!
“Franklin Graham was supportive of Romney over Obama in 2012. Does that make him evil?”
On the other hand...
Homosexuality is a judgement on America.
This needs to be pointed out consistently - homosexuality will not just bring judgement upon our country; homosexuality IS the judgement. Romans 1:26 starts with “For this reason” and continues “God gave them up to vile passions.” “..men with men committing what is shameful”; so this is a judgement upon our society.
It also continues and says that they give approval to others for more and more evil acts. We see this today with our legislatures accepting homosexual marriages and the teaching of it as acceptable in the schools.
Note also that Romans 1:32 points out that those who approve of such conduct are just as guilty as those who engage in it.
So, given Romans 1:32, is Franklin Graham supporting and encouraging homosexuality through his support of Romney, who is known to support homosexuality? And therefore, is Franklin Graham guilty?
What else can you call a preacher that say abortion is a terrible sin, then tells his flock to empower a man that not only caused many abortions but personally paid for them?
That is evil.
Just wanted to bump this... good post.
“Folks, the GOP only has power because someone out here gives them power. Now that this hard lesson last night has proven what some of us here on FR have been trying fruitlessly to get across, it won’t be so fruitless.
People continuing to support the GOP, make excuses for them and attack conservatives are every bit as evil as the GOP itself. Take away the support and the GOP is powerless. the money men vanish and we can fight the dems without the protection the GOP provides them.
Period.”
I think this guy is missing an opportunity to be graceful in defeat. Keep up the positive message about America’s heritage and its future, and take the long view. It’s how Reagan rolled.
The time for term limits has long been overdue...........
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Term limits will never pass in our legislature.
What congress critter is going to step down of his own volition?
Just wanted you on the record....you think Franklin Graham is a fraud and evil.
I see him as the Pat Robertson of politics.
It seems obvious but many just refuse to accept the truth of it. I welcome anyone to tell me where any of it is incorrect but in years of posting that basic concept, no one has. Lots of screaming, foot stomping and ‘rejecting the premise’ but not one person has ever disproved a single bit of it. Wholly or in part.
It’s not revealed knowledge. It’s basic conservatism and common sense.
Well what do you call telling the flock polar opposites means? What does misleading them on basic christian teaching mean?
I hope you don’t think I am ashamed of the facts.
Go get Frank and have him come here to FR and he and I can debate it for all to see.
There’s one place, where somebody asked Jesus if God allows divorce. Jesus said that because of the hardness of men’s hearts God told Moses to tell the people that a man could write a certificate of divorce. But it wasn’t meant to be that way. It was supposed to be a man joined to his wife alone as one flesh. It was basically God giving people over to suffer their own consequences because they would not live what was intended.
The Bible addresses some confusing areas, like whether to eat meat offered to idols if there are people who believe that idols are real and that you are worshiping those idols by eating that meat. So sometimes there are questions about which of two actions is more harmful.
But on the whole it is as you say: we are not to deliberately join ourselves to evil. Especially not with mockers. Even the best among us are sinners (except Jesus) so we can’t be totally separate from evil and we do have to bear with the failings of the weak. But to approve the openly wicked is not an option. Rather, we are called to warn them and to take the steps necessary so that they will consider the warning to be serious.
I’m Lutheran so I believe in the left-hand (civil) and right-hand (Heavenly) kingdoms, which are separate. I pray for Obama’s salvation and in the next breath pray that he will be removed from office. There’s no conflict there, to me. Both prayers are for good to conquer evil.
I think right now we’re justifiably angry. Ultimately we need to fight for what we love even more than we fight against what we hate. It’s the flip side of the same coin. We hate lies because we love the truth. We hate murder because we love life. We hate injustice because we love justice. Etc. I think right now it’s easier to be angry than to be hopeful because the world is falling to pot all around us and hope is elusive. I really, really feel for Chris in this; when you first grasp the reality of evil, up close and personal, it can shake everything you believe about people, and crush any desire to deal with people. I think we need to hold Chris in prayer and do what we can to help him know that God’s grace and His love alive within His people is just as real as the evil.
What is sad is that there were churches involved in this - as if not one of them even considered that “Thou shalt not steal” means “You shall not redistribute somebody else’s wealth”. They all just went to the trough to eat the slop that was taken from somebody else and given to them.
It is true that a democratic republic only works with people who are moral. If the souls of people are rotten, the country will be rotten too, and that’s pretty much where much of America is at. We need a turning back to God. It’ll come by not confusing Law and Gospel. Those who are open, mocking, confident sinners need to be brought low to repentance. And those who are broken and crushed by guilt need to be lifted up through the announcement of forgiveness. God’s saving work involves breaking the wrongly-set bone and re-setting it.
What happened in Mississippi was libel - claims that are clearly not true, in order to destroy a man’s reputation. A sin and a crime. That it was done by “Christian” pastors is
sad. That it was done by pastors in order to have more money stolen from some and given to others is disgusting. And that people who claim to be friends to the Republican people of Mississippi would seek to cancel them out - sort of like x-ing them out or silencing/killing them - is dead wrong. They all need to bear fruits befitting repentance. And we are the ones who need to tell them that, in as convincing a way as we can.
It has become obvious that Franklin Graham is a republican first and a conservative Christian last. He puts his R over his Saviour. I won’t do that.
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Well what do you call telling the flock polar opposites? What do you suppose that means?
The BeltWay is now the BackstabberWay.
And so do the RATS.
Just to be clear, I don’t think myself some paragon of virtue. I have plenty to answer for that I am not looking forward to.
But I do not understand how it can be that a christian of any flavor can openly in public say that ‘some’ evil is OK when we are commanded to fight it.
It’s like a petty crime vs a felony. No one wants ol’ sparky for jaywalking offenses but who thinks promoting jaywalking is a good thing?
No matter how this gets sliced it’s down to good/bad. And 2 years out from the next presidential Why on earth is there a single conservative already making excuses and priming the pump to go ‘evil’ again?
Baffling. Or willful sabotage.
Forget them. They are not authorities of hell.
“Hero”?
And you have to keep remembering that nobody on the face of this earth is “all good.”
No, not even wonderful you.
The best we can hope for is saved sinner.
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