Top Evangelicals Still Await GOP Invite

It's a tight race. Bush needs to move to the center if he's to have a chance. That means no embarassing evangelicals to scare off moderates.

Like Falwell, most of them will take it and shut up.

Bush knows they won't leave. Where will they go?

 

Many Evangelicals are not registered to vote. Those that do vote, split their votes about equally with the Democrats. Bush is more of a mainline Protestant than an Evangelical, in my opinion. Many Evangelicals are against the wasteful expenditure of the Faith-Based Initiative. Obviously, the flaw in giving all those Black churches money for social programs is that it does not translate into GOP votes and there is no way to account for the way the money will be spent or thrown away. One church in Indianapolis wanted the money to put volunteers in a soup kitchen and food pantry on the payroll.

I think that it is good for Evangelicals to distance themselves from Bush. The main strength of the Bush campaign is the weakness of Kerry as a politician and his current crisis of being found out for his fraud about being in Cambodia illegally for Christmas 1968 when drunken South Vietnamese forces celebrating Christmas fired upon Kerry.

The Pentagon is investigating drunken allies at Christmas parties in illegal areas of a war theater--especially when firing at phantom or nonexistent targets and when they weren't there themselves anyway.

 

Of course, you think that way, cmg. You are anti-conservative, especially toward Christian conservatives.

 

Huh? Do you want Evangelicals to endorse and support Bush? Pat Robertson, a regular Republican, will probably endorse Bush. I don't know about the others. What is the need for Evangelicals to be close to Bush? What do you want Evangelicals to do, Ken?

 

If it wasn't for Christian conservatives, Al Gore would be president right now. You would think the GOP would show appreciation for that fact at it's convention in a couple of weeks.

 

Are you supporting Bush now instead of Peroutka, Ken? If so, that is a good sign. It is true that Evangelicals voted for Bush more than Gore; but I have read that they voted for Clinton more than Bush 41 or more than Dole. They are an independent lot. Bush has been a domestic disappointment in a sense because he is so weak since he is a minority President.

Of course, I am a regular, Main Street Republican. I believe in majority rule with minority rights. I believe that people should register and vote. It is upsetting to me that so many Evangelicals are not registered.

Exodus 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: (KJV)

Exodus 18:21 But you should select from all the people able men, God-fearing, trustworthy, and hating bribes. Place [them]* The bracketed text has been added for clarity. over the people as officials of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens. (Holman Christian Standard Bible)

www.ivotevalues.com

 

Only in your dreams, cmg, only in your dreams.

 

I haven't found the data for 1992 but in 1996 76% of evangelicals voted for Bob Dole.

 

George H.W. Bush won 55% of the evanglical vote in 1992.

 

I stand corrected. Evangelicals have leaned towards the GOP.

The Democrat Party seems to have been taken over by extreme leftists, secular humanists. Their platform is impractical.

Ken, do you think that it is the issue of abortion and the Democrat Party platform to uphold Roe v. Wade that is costing them votes in the Evangelical category?

 

Yes.

 

Same with the Republican Party.

 

Why would an evangelical want to speak at a convention??? We have real battles to fight over real issues. Why waste the time at a staged production?

 

Perks.

 

To tell the truth, the Constitution Party did not invite any Evangelicals to speak at their convention either. So I don't see why the Constitution Party cares so much about what happens at the GOP convention at the end of the month in New York City.

 

First, obviously, cmg, you have not looked at the speakers list at the Constitution Party national convention.

Second, speaking for myself, I am quite involved with the GOP as I am helping conservative Republicans to get elected to office. And if the GOP nominates a conservative candidate for president in 2008, such as someone like Congressman Tom Tancredo, I would enthusiastically support such a GOP candidate for president.

 

Well, did they include the ones that the Constitution Party listed at the start of this thread or are you changing the list now, Ken?

We were talking about Franklin Graham, Falwell, and Robertson. Now the list seems to have been expanded to fit the latest CP spin.

Fact is the CP is unattractive to Evangelicals.

 

Fact is you are speaking out of either ignorance or malice, cmg.