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The culture wars have never ended. The basic playbook has never really changed. I donât understand why anything that happens at these gatherings is ânewâ. Drawing attention to what isnât new is far more important.
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I would have one question for any of these people; how exactly does SSM âthreatenâ your beliefs? Followed by three minutes of cricketsâŚand none of them are entitled to call themselves âChristians.â Bigots? Yes. Liars? Sure. Do unto others? Not so muchâŚ
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Having fostered the fears of these people for almost 40 years the GOP is finding itself held captive. Politicians used to be able to use their fears to get elected, then give lip service to banning abortion, LGBT rights, defunding Planned Parenthood, etc. Now that some of these people got elected they are demanding that the GOP follow through. Between this new reality and Trump revealing the partyâs id, itâs a squeeze for those who understand that they are in government to do what the corporations want. Even the national Chamber of Commerce is thinking about primarying some of the craziest ones because their agenda is being blocked.
I am eagerly awaiting the first debate.
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The HolierThanThous---------
aka The Pro$periteriens are rewriting the Go$pel that reflects their FauXian ValuesâŚ
None of that wimpy Jesus stuffâŚ
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Holy crap!
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Not I, they will NOT be debates but much more of the same-o same-o as this article describes. Those on the stage will be preaching to the choir, the converted and not a word will be spoken about policies and/or about how they would govern. And those asking the question will allow themselves to be ignore and talked over all in the effort to get the talking points in.
âThis is a forum where our candidates can share their faith and testimony and not feel ostracized. Except maybe by the press,â
And us, if their answers are not deemed sufficiently pious. And by ostracized in those cases, I meanâŚliterally tarred and feather to look like an ostrich before we run them out on a rail.
Itâs more than a little unseemly that Santorum wants to be known as a wartime president. If war is thrust upon the US, we expect our CIC to respond appropriately. If that means war, so be it. But to appear to actively seek war is inapropriate and seems to be driven by ego. As I recall, our last self-called war president didnât do so well.
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Ralph Reed has managed to run his Christian Scam for too many years without ever having to answer for his antics. He has managed to get the GOP to cower before him again.
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Yes, but if you read carefully, youâll see that the idea comes from the Israeli government, not from Santorum. Santorum is not given to original ideas. The government of Israel wants a war with Iran and they want the US to fight it for them just as the US fought their war against Iraq.
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So much bilge Iâll wait for other TPM readersâ, "wutdafuc?â response. But this one hit me:
âAnd one of Prime Minister Netanyahuâs advisers told me, âSenator, you need to tell the American people that the next president the country elects will have to be a wartime president.ââ - Frothy, saying his foreign policy positions will be whatever a foreign head of state tells him they are.
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And yet this right for same sex couples to marry is legal in all states. Even those who whined to the 9th Circuit have requested their case be removed are allowing these marriages to move ahead. The world has not tilted on itâs axis, plagues have not been seen in the USA, etc etc etc. And yet the GOP pander to those who they hope will vote and donate to their wealth coffers ignoring reality.
Because he doesnât trust women.
He trusts government.
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âThis is a forum where our candidates can share their faith and testimony and not feel ostracized. Except maybe by the press,â Mary Frances Forrester told me. âHere, we can ask questions and candidates can include their faith when theyâre talking about important social issues.â
Yes, because nothing is quite so hostile to religious belief and Christianity than mainstream America. In fact, Scientific American says that Christians and other believers of supernatural beings are one of the most disliked groups in America and that only 45% would even consider voting for a well-qualified Christian presidential candidate.
A Gohmert candidacy? Just when we thought the entertainment value of the Republican presidential candidates couldnât go any higher.
I am so x&!D$&^)(*& sick of this religion crap. Is this why the polls say more and more people are turning away from organized religion? Meanwhile the country is going to hell in a hand basket, we cannot get any government funding for more than a few months at a time for any program because these agenda clowns have no idea what it takes to govern or any concept of what their oath of office means, they bandy the Constitution but have no clue as to what it says or means and we are rapidly being pushed aside and ignored as we degenerate into a banana republic. The world just looks at us and says WTF?
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Wow. The VICTIMHOOD just drips from every one of those quotes.
They just LOVE preaching from the cross they imagine themselves hanging from.
morons.
True enough. Which makes it all the more outrageous. Since when does an American president take marching orders from a foreign country? If Netanyahu wants a wartime President, so it shall be? It doesnât occur to Santorum to demur?
Gohmert 2016, Iâm all in.
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