The sad thing is, Ted never had to let this battle be in the gutter. A more positive approach might have had him as the presumptive candidate now.
It’s Ted’s responsibility for having let it happen. A big part of it, I believe, was his dominionistic theology. God has handed the world to us Christians on a silver platter. Errrrr... not quite. Not yet.
“A big part of it, I believe, was his dominionistic theology. God has handed the world to us Christians on a silver platter. Errrrr... not quite. Not yet.”
That theology has wreaked a lot of havoc in Christendom and doesn’t hold up under Church age scrutiny. Same as the prosperity con, there’s lots of running to the Old Testament to find promises to national Israel and tease them out for post-Cross believers. In the New Testament one finds a consistent REVERSAL. Earthly defeat, but heavenly victory. Financial weakness but spiritual riches. Rejection by the world but rich welcome with God!
“The sad thing is, Ted never had to let this battle be in the gutter.”
No, he didn’t, and many of us were shocked at how quickly he went negative on Trump.
For a man with such a (supposedly) huge intellect, he showed a lot of nastiness toward Trump that was ill-timed, and woefully bereft of strategic gamesmanship. He seemed to constantly seize the moment to take the low road, when he had a clean shot at Trump’s ideological and policy flanks.
Altogether, his performance as a contender was unskilled and impulsive. Although he was always able to masterfully wordsmith his statements, the meat of his attacks was usually petty and prone to boomerang on him.
Why?
Would that have made him born in the US, of US citizen parents?