Ben “we get to decide that we are a Judeo Christian nation” Carson:
That’s just a sampling.
Just once, I’d like to hear one of the debate moderators ask Fiorina, et. al. if “people of faith” include Wiccans, those who practice Shinto, Buddhists, voodoo, Santeria, the first church of Satan, and so on. They all have faith, don’t they?
Maybe you put your faith in the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Isn’t your faith just as good as anyone else’s?
Back to the presidential hopefuls, ever notice how the one who preach the most about being Jesus-y are also the ones who favor waterboarding and other torture, warmongering, and gun love?
Weak rant, I know. Just had to get it off my chest.
And I was asking if he had a link to Cruz saying that, or the part that you didn’t highlight.
I realize this is the Pit, where accuracy is not expected in rants against the cherished bogeys of the Left, but it amuses me to point out the instances of “darn those Republicans for saying things they didn’t say”.
Sorry not really to interrupt the Two Minute Hate.
Depending on how one counts, there are 75M - 100M Evangelicals in the US. But that would include minor children, as well. If we assume children make up about 1/4 of the total, that would still be 75M, max. It’s hard to believe that 2/3 did not vote in 2012. But still, if we were to assume it was 1/3, that would still imply there could be as many as 25M non-voters of the Evangelical stripe. But of course, it’s every politicians dream to get 100% of his favorite demographic out there voting.
Note also that if we use the higher number, that includes lots of African Americans who are unlikely to vote R if they do vote.
Yeah, it’s an unreasonable stretch to say that OP’s comment about CF also applies to the others. It was pretty clearly a comment about CF and CF only. The general thrust of the OP’s complaint is about the GOP candidates trying to “out-righteous” each other. And that’s a pretty fair description of what is going on.
These people are playing to the conservative and xenophobic Christians who make up a big hunk of the GOP caucus goers in Iowa. These guys are motivated and they attend. That is why we seem to be stuck with Congressman King in perpetuity (until our rural population declines enough that ol’ Steve needs votes from some population center besides Sioux City). You can’t win the Iowa Republican presidential caucus without the active participation and support of the Focus on the Family/My-God-is-bigger-than-your-God types. It is pandering plain and simple and it’s the same thing we see every presidential campaign, but it works so it’s done.
I would expect to see the same sort of thing with firearms in states south and west of here. Figure out who makes up the political base, pander, pander and stroke. I works every time.
