Arkansas Blog: The Baptist endorsement

Richard Land, a big political stick in Washington for the Southern Baptist Convention, chatted with the Wall Street Journal for an article today on his take on the Republican candidates. (Baptists like Land don't vote for Democrats, even if they haven't cheated on a spouse.)

Giuliani won't get it, of course. He yearns for Fred Thompson, sounds like. Also, the article said:

Mr. Land might, on the other hand, vote for Mitt Romney. He says that evangelical voters may be able to get over their problems with a Mormon. "Charitably speaking," Mr. Land says, "they would call [Mormonism] the fourth Abrahamic religion. When they're less charitable, they would call it a cult." And they might even let him off the hook for his flip-flops on the social issues. "A lot of people in this country who are pro-life didn't used to be."

...To review, we have Rudy Giuliani, a twice divorced, pro-choice, supporter of civil unions; Mitt Romney, a Mormon who as recently as his 1994 Senate campaign against liberal icon Sen. Ted Kennedy was pro-choice and wishy-washy on gay marriage; John McCain, who voted against the gay marriage amendment and who crafted the campaign finance laws that have done much to damage the anti-abortion efforts of religious conservatives; or perhaps Fred Thompson, who supported McCain-Feingold and says that gay marriage is a state issue.

Mr. Land remains oddly upbeat, particularly about Mr. Thompson, the possibility of whose candidacy he finds "tantalizing." But he acknowledges the reality of his constituency's situation: "Evangelicals would be very happy if Mike Huckabee or Sam Brownback or Duncan Hunter were the nominee, but the problem with those three guys is they don't give any indication they can win." And he adds, "With Hillary Clinton looming on the horizon, electability is a very important issue."

At the very least, the evangelical influence in the Republican primary will be diluted, with some religious conservatives thinking ahead to the general election and others going for the purest representative of their values. It is noteworthy that even among the unelectable candidates, evangelicals can't make up their minds between a free-trade, open-immigration candidate like Sen. Brownback and a closed-borders protectionist like Rep. Hunter.

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Max I would hope you were one. But, listen, I am and I don't care much about free trade or immigrants they are not immigrants they are invaders of our country.

The government of Mexico don't give a damn about it's own people. That country has everything it needs to make it's citizens better off than they are but it doesn't look as though that will ever happen.

Posted by: chasv | April 28, 2007 04:30 PM

On my desk I have cup with a red and white donkey and the words "Proud to Be a Democrat." What I was looking for when I bought it was a cup that reads "Grateful Not to Be a Republican."

Posted by: Pavel | April 28, 2007 05:33 PM

Let the wacknuts rant and rave about no president worthy of their bigotry. I think America has had enough of it.

Seems like Mike Masterson found a truth-teller today. Read it if you dare.
If half true, which it is, it matters little who wins the office in 08 , takes the helm in '09.
This wreckless spending spree is ending. U.S. ability to borrow and prop up the criminal syndicate is quickly winding down from $75 billion a month to only being able to hustle up $15 billion month.

Blue name.
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Posted by: Lwood | April 28, 2007 05:57 PM

hyper-linked name won't work. Try cop y-paste on this one:

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/188638/

Posted by: Lwood | April 28, 2007 05:59 PM

Every single D candidate is ten times the cadidate of any R. Another race to the bottom for the Goopers.

Lwood - What a link....it's difficult to imagine that story is not true.. No honesty (in more than just accounting), no responsible party and no accountability....no reasonable taxation of the rich and no overall sense of direction for the country at large. (economic, energy, or much smaller military ind complex)

I just hope when we go belly up that we finally quit spending more than anyone else in the world on military matters.

Posted by: Eureka Springs, AR | April 28, 2007 07:18 PM

pavel, show me 1damn good D and I show you 1 R.
Nothing but scum rises to the top of the political world.
The problem is the people don't have a government. Since the people don't have a government the next civil war is getting closer and closer. It will be a terrible one if and when it comes .

Posted by: chasv | April 28, 2007 07:34 PM

chasv,

I can't disprove your hypothesis, but I think I can name two or three crooked Repuglicans for each crooked Democrat.

Posted by: docholliday | April 28, 2007 08:09 PM

chasv, why don't you set your VCR to record George Stephanopoulos in the morning and every Sunday morning. Forget the rest of the show, just watch towards the end for the In Memoriam segment. Check out how many dead US soldiers killed this last week had Hispanic names, then go be ashamed of yourself.

Just to help out here is a little grid of recent figures of those maimed or killed in Iraq to help you understand it's not all the white man's burden.

RACE/ETHNICITY Army AirForce Marine Navy
American Indian or Alaska Native 1.09%
Asian 1.33%
Black or African American 9.65%
Hispanic or Latino 10.89%
Multiple races, pending, or unknown 1.7%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 1%
White 74.33%
Total 3296

Posted by: Deathbyinches | April 28, 2007 08:25 PM

>>Nothing but scum rises to the top of the political world. <<
ChasV

You have a long way to go Charlie.
Suppose your doc came in with a report:
Bad-
Both of your legs are very badly diseased.

Good-
We have enough blood on hand to save one of them.
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Posted by: Lwood | April 28, 2007 08:37 PM

doc, no you cannot because they are all the same, no damn good. Who keeps up with the races, damn it, especially if they are Americans born in America. But those damn invaders you call immigrants are ignorant aliens coming here for anything they can get.
I said Mexico is rich enough it is able to provide for all it's citizens in a way they wouldn't need to come here, damn it, to live.
some of you whites don't give a damn about your own next door neighbors so you throw your sympathy to the illegals. weird ain't ye.

Posted by: chasv | April 28, 2007 11:33 PM

Chasv, I usually refrain from responding to you, but, please list your "good" Republicans by name.
I am not holding my breath.

Posted by: BlueRidge | April 28, 2007 11:38 PM

Hey blueridge you missed the point I made. There is not one good d or r, not one! so shut up about what is and what is not. They all stink to hell and back.

Posted by: chasv | April 28, 2007 11:52 PM

"That country has everything it needs to make it's citizens better off than they are but it doesn't look as though that will ever happen." -- chasv

The same could be said about a certain other first-world western-hemisphere country I know of. So are we compairing apples to apples now?

Posted by: Arkansas Student | April 29, 2007 09:54 AM

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