Posted on 04/24/2016 7:04:13 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Melanie M wrote: I am a Christian Conservative and have very strong opinions of political stances. The republican party is not an entity it is people, no people no party so they better get their crap together. Christian is not what you do it is who you are and though we may disagree on scripture, doctrine or interpretation no one has the right to question another persons salvation experience or their Christianity.
I find Ted Cruz dishonest and manipulative in this race. His Christian roots untraceable and his rhetoric unstable. Donald Trump may not always meet the mark as politically correct conservative but he owns his beliefs unlike Cruz that speaks what he doesn't seem to live. His wife drinks, they do not tithe, he has questionable relationships with young women he works with, he claims to all of us in Texas to be committed to representing Texas and fighting for our voice in Washington just to decide he was not called to be a senator but President in the middle of the job and leaves his post to run for another office leaving us voiceless and the job he committed to do unmanned.
God has historically used men and women that the people would not have necessarily have chosen to represent him. We have spent the last 18 months or so in prayer around the country in prayer groups praying for Gods man, Mr. Trump is that man, get on or get out of the way but God will have a man and we will be restored with or without your approval. Ted Cruz has a job he needs to get back to it and allow those that have been called to areas he is not get to theirs and stop all this strife in the body.
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Great post!
It’s change or we lose our country
What most here are missing is Trump has about 40% of the Republican vote. That doesn't win. And he loses to Hillary. He may even lose to Sanders. The NOT TRUMP vote is 60% of the vote. All Cruz has to get is 81% of that and they are waiting in the wings to vote Trump out.
only the deluded think Cruz is going to win the #neverTrump delegates. Face, hes already history, there are not enough of you to win anything.
Remember when Cruz invoked ‘strapping on the armor of God’ in the run up to Iowa?
What happened?
Looks like God left the little wannabe emperor with no clothes.
When I liked both teddy and Trump, teddy began to sour on me when Trump called for a freeze on Muslim immigration while teddy remained silent for a day, I’m guessing because his team had to test a message that would please both his existing and future deep-pocketed donors (can someone say Saudi Prince?).
To me, teddy revealed himself to be a calculating politician during this incident.
What you mean wah ovah? You rie Yanqi pig! I go back in jungle now.
It’s not just ok, it’s great.
Ted’s a phony. Get him out of here.
Twister Ted.
Very well said.
You’re funnin’ us, aren’t you?
Guess what! The Constitution's description of the powers and duties of the President makes no mention of Christianity.
Cruz is a pathological liar. He is such a pathological liar that he says, with a straight face, that when he was talking about Kasich being "mathematically eliminated," he wasn't talking about him not being able to reach the 1237 mark (because if Cruz did mean it that way, which he clearly did, it means he must now drop out). It's basically undeniable at this point that Cruz is a sociopath and, therefore, isn't a Christian. No one can deny this and still be intellectually honest here.
2nd, basically everybody you support loses. Whether it's Romney, and now Cruz as you pretend to be a conservative on this forum. Even your tag is a lie, because you're still a propagandist for Cruz who spreads lies like you always have. Basically, the point I'm trying to get at is: The fact you like Cruz means this person and 80 percent of the electorate is right about Cruz being a prick.
The President appoints SCOTUS justices, who are the only ones who’ve ever legalized abortion, so he has the BIGGEST control over the abortion issue. Now, others can control it with an amendment potentially.
“Educating women” is not a job that requires the President. I think we’ve been doing that and gotten as far as we can. We need the PP funding cut off and anti-abortion laws. The left is campaigning hard for abortion and they control the education and the media. We have a much easier time taking over government and passing laws than taking over all schools and all media.
Mr. TRUMP has nothing to be humiliated about. He’s winning the people, without cheating.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLLOL..... Get it?
Trump is God’s man? That’s jumping the shark.
“Are you going to pay for day care for the child and its rearing expenses while the mother gets to continue her college education or other things to prepare her for the long life ahead of her and relocating her so that she does not bear the moral opprobrium or plain revulsion such women face for being rape victims.”
Yes. I’ve helped a number of young women who ended up pregnant and were abandoned by boyfriends/paramours. Some are now happily married. Some are single moms but are doing well. I don’t recall any of them being raped, but I would certainly help a young woman in that situation. I have NEVER known a pro-life person to say no when asked for help in such a situation.
“Oh that would be socialism wouldn’t.”
Nope. That would be charity. I’m not a government. And even if a government did it, if it was to save a baby’s life, no matter what you want to call it, it would be right.
“We believe in personal responsibility and the woman who is raped must bear her responsibility.”
I see no reason why a victim has any responsibility other than not to harm an innocent person.
“I am actually ok with society bailing out these victims of your sad sadistic moralizing except in those rare instance where the perp is a multi-millinaire whose property can be confiscated to make restitution.”
I made no “sad sadistic moralizing”. Maybe you should know about what your speaking before you use your keyboard? I don’t want babies to die. Apparently you do. That’s not moralizing. It’s murder.
And how much power does a single president have to change the makeup of SCOTUS? Unless something happens and the entire bench is wiped out suddenly, the most any president ever nominates is one, maybe two, to the bench. And that nominee has to go through Senate hearings and be voted on, and likely won't make it through that gauntlet. Remember Bork? So we end up with some weak justice who was "moderate" enough to make it through a leftist Senate, or we end up with some leftist radical justice. So the power the president has in this regard is extremely weak.
“Educating women” is not a job that requires the President. I think we’ve been doing that and gotten as far as we can. We need the PP funding cut off and anti-abortion laws. The left is campaigning hard for abortion and they control the education and the media. We have a much easier time taking over government and passing laws than taking over all schools and all media.
We are doing quite well with educating women. I think the education could be far more effective (teaching girls to remain virgin until marriage and never have sex unless they intend to get pregnant is a non-viable tactic, for example), but it does have an effect. At its peak, there were around 1.7 million abortions per year. That number has dropped to less than a million. That means that 800,000 more women per year choose not to get pregnant.
As a result of the education efforts, many pro-aborts complain about the "stigma" of having abortion. They try to combat that stigma by efforts such as the one I read about in L.A., where women who have aborted would go door to door to show people that "ordinary" women have abortions. Of course, they cannot erase the stigma, for the simple fact that most people (including many pro-aborts) do know that abortion kills babies and they really are not comfortable with baby killers. Along with the stories about women who regret killing their babies, or who became unable to have a baby after abortion, the stigma helps. Complaints about being stigmatize for having an abortion have an effect on other young women, who may feel more inclined to use birth control (and to use it properly) because they don't want to experience that kind of judgment for the rest of their lives.
The president presents budgets to Congress, but it is the house that takes the budgets and puts it into the final form, which then has to go to the president for approval before they can start apportioning the money. So the responsibility for "defunding" Planned Parenthood (which is a matter of removing its line item from the budget, not "defunding") falls mostly on the Congress. Although it is a start, it will not stop abortion.
Making laws to make abortion illegal across the board is a non-starter: Congress won't do it, and none of the states can until SCOTUS completely changes. Furthermore, such a move would play right into the abortion industry's hands. Perhaps you are unaware of this, but abortion advocacy groups often distribute "self-abortion" kits, and they publish details of how to make them on the internet. Their purpose with this is two-fold. One, is the use of such kits as fear-mongering tools to scare women about the pro-life zealots who want to deprive them of making their own decisions about their own bodies. The other, is that should a law outright forbidding abortion ever be passed, zealous pro-aborts will happily encourage women to get pregnant and use those "self-abortion" kits--which will likely injure them seriously or kill them--providing ample proof that making abortion illegal kills women. And poof, legal abortion becomes forever enshrined in law.
This is a war. We will not win it through sudden measures, but through patience. In order to win this war, it is necessary to understand the pro-abortion position as well as you understand the pro-life position. Otherwise, you have no hope of effectively fighting this war.
While it is morally repugnant to put a cost on human life, we have evolved into a society where most responsible people simply cannot afford more than 2-3 children. Regrettably an additional unwanted child may mean not just a burden, but economic ruin. It is a reality that has to be factored into this when one considers banning the small percentage for rape or medical reasons.
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