Posted on 09/27/2014 12:15:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON — Gov. Mike Huckabee encouraged pastors to speak out on political issues and for social conservatives to get more fellow adherents registered and to the polls.
Social conservatives are not in trouble because of the actions of government, they are in trouble because social conservatives are not speaking out and are not voting in large numbers, Huckabee said Friday at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit.
Huckabee estimated that there are probably over 100 million social conservatives in the United States. Using just the example of Evangelicals, he said there are about 80 million, but only half of them are even registered to vote, and of those who are registered, only 20 million actually vote in a presidential year.
An even smaller number, about 10 million, vote in midterm elections and an even smaller number than that vote in the primary elections that determine who the major party candidates will be.
"What would happen," he asked, "if, instead of half of those voters being registered, 75 percent of them were? And what would happen if, instead of half of them voting, 75 percent of them voted? If 10 percent more Evangelicals had voted in the last presidential election, we would have a different president than the one we have right now."
Huckabee also cited research conducted by George Barna, a Christian pollster, showing that 90 percent of pastors believe that the Bible speaks to the important issues of the day, but only 10 percent of pastors say they preach and teach on what the Bible says about the important issues of the day.
Politicians will listen to the concerns of social conservatives if they speak out more and vote in higher numbers, Huckabee explained.
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No, if Romney didn’t suck so much, Obama would not still be President.
But perfectly willing to, by inaction, allow those who not only believe in them, but also believe they have a "sacred" duty to expand/push them on the People and have 1000 other means of subjugation in mind....makes perfect sense if all you really want is a scapegoat to blame instead of actually trying to stem the tide.
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?
And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
- George Washington, presidential Farewell Address
Huckabee: If Just 10 Percent More Evangelicals Had Voted, Obama Would Not Be President
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So? It’s not the fault of Evangelicals that the GOPe gave us the finger. It’s more correct to state that if Evangelicals had someone to vote FOR (instead of just voting AGAINST Obama), then Obama Would Not Be President
I get it (re: the George Washington Farewell Address) but apparently many can’t understand the difference between believing something and being willing to force their beliefs, illegally and against the Constitution, on the People. Romney has some opinions that many of us disagree with - yet he told us that he/the government shouldn’t be the ones to push them on people/organizations. He also acknowledged that ObamaCare was illegal/un-constitutional at the Federal/National level. Yet, many decide they can’t stand the fact that he said he thought homos should be allowed in the Boy Scouts or that he put RomneyCare into place in Massachusetts, so they opt to reject him and allow a person that has much viler views and opinions, and the willingness to shove every one of them down our throats with the full power of the Federal Government and all its armed agencies, into office for a second term - all this after getting very clear signals of his vile intentions from the first term. You can take Washington’s farewell address and put it next to the toilet - nice words don’t pardon the real idiots who still claim that Obama is not any worse than Romney would have been.
Vile: 1 a : morally despicable or abhorrent
Can’t and Won’t vote for:
Open borders
Abortion
Homosexuality
Yeah - much better to not vote for someone who may believe in them, but doesn't believe the government makes the choices (or a president does so by so called executive order) and insure that a person who not only believes in them, but will do everything in his power to force them on the People, gets the helm.
Once one does as you indicate that you will do, at what point do they give up their right to complain about what we have in D.C.?
Geez, you’re spiting on me. Calm down.
Not spiting - just arguing that there is a difference that actuall makes a difference.
For instance - many wouldn't vote for Romeny over Obama for his comment about thinking homosexuals should be allowed in the Boy Scouts or the fact that his Romney Care in Massachusetts was used as a framework for Obama Care. They missed or ignored, that unlike Obama who is a rabid homosexual supporter who uses executive orders and other forceful methods to promote homosexuality, Romney also stated that while he had his opinion, he didn't think the government should dictate - the Boy Scouts, or any other organization, should be able to make its own choices.
Same with Obama Care - Romney stated that it was legal for a State to implement something like Romney Care, but it was illegal and unconstitutional to have the Federal Government implement Obama Care.
While it would be super to have someone who agreed with me on moral value issues, I prefer someone who has opinions that go against mine, but who will not force those opinions on me illegally vs. someone like Obama who has no compunctions about breaking the law to do so. Same with abortion - there is a difference with having the bad opinion that it should be legal for certain cases and a person who worships at the abattoir of baby blood and who fights to insure that abortion is easy, paid for by even those who bitterly oppose it, and who actually ensures that even babies born alive can be legally killed, "because he doesn't think someone should be punished by an unwanted baby".
IOW, there's the misguided and the pure evil - many think it's their duty to withhold votes from the misguided even if it means putting pure evil into power.
I can understand and even agree with the sentiment, but cannot fathom how it makes sense to give an Obama a second term or even to open the door for someone who will follow in his footsteps. Voting for the lesser of two evils sucks, it still results in the lesser of two evils. If we fight our butts off and expend time/energy/money to push for our best candidates in the Primaries, then don't get that person, it makes no sense to me to allow the evil side to win. The Left takes every inch it can get and has done so for decades. They unite to elect even those they don't like because the person is not Left enough, but who is still a vote or two further Left than the alternative. Unless we follow suit and unite to elect those who are at least a few votes farther to the Right, we will continue to lose - even our victories are hollowed out by the obvious long-term trend to viler and more evil tyrants who increasingly flaunt the law because they know they have the edge and that we will not unite to stop them.
“...gay couples raising kids. That’s the American way...”
-Mitt Romney
What a jerky statement by Huckabee....blaming Obama on Christian conservatives.
Romney was the general. Romney’s plan lost the war.
Exactly, it is not the voters duty to vote for people they do not like or trust, the GOP or anyone else does not own our votes.
Their candidate and party failed, they are the only ones to blame.
Here’s why this idiot didn’t win the nomination. He might as well be a televangelist.
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