headline in local gannett paper: Evangelicals may face choice: electable candidate or 'moral' one

[spanone]

they're missing the 'moral' george w. bu$h*

i guess an unnecessary war is morally acceptable...?
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Noah was a mean drunk, Moses a murderer, King David an adulterer and then a murderer.

That didn’t stop them from being biblical heroes.

So evangelical voters may be willing to support a presidential candidate with a checkered past, and this presidential election, they may have to choose between a candidate who can win and a candidate who mirrors their religious ideals.

They’re likely to remain some of the strongest Republican voters — a spot they’ve held at least since the Reagan era. But this time, there’s no George W. Bush, said Richard Land, president of the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

“When you had George W. Bush, you had someone who was an evangelical who had the moral character and was electable,” he said. “The ones they like the most seem the least electable.”

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120108/NEWS02/301080082/Evangelicals-may-face-choice-electable-candidate-moral-one?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

[rustydog]

1. Their problem is they have neither choice running!

Moral candidate? really? Who in Sewer reeks of true Mores? Who?

[rurallib]

3. their concept of morality is contrary to what it has been

for most of history.

[Solly Mack]

2. lolol

[spanone]

5. are they saying romney is immoral ???

[Solly Mack]

6. Among other things

lololol

[southernyankeebelle]

8. yep they are. He ain't one of them. How much you want to bet they'll go with the mormon?

[The Genealogist]

4. They'll elect whomever the tv/radio tells them to elect

That's how they roll. Whether it is the screaming freak on their RW AM radio or the FAUX SNOOZE channel, the fundevangelical conservatives will vote like good little automatons.

[Cleita]

7. From people who have no clue what real morals are.

Hint: They should read the Sermon on the Mount and what Jesus actually preached in the gospels. Also, Jesus preached separation of Church and State when he said to render to Caesar what was Caesar's and to God what was God's. He knew it took a different kind of person to be Emperor from the kind it took to be a priest. As we can see from the religious leaders turned into secular leaders as well in the ME, they deteriorate into oligarchic despots who persecute their people. I'm hoping the Evangelicals don't have that in mind.

[southernyankeebelle]

9. They no read. That is why they listen to the radio for fat boy to tell them.

[Cleita]

10. They also get it in church.

Before DU and before AAR and MSNBC taking a turn to the left, and when I got tired of the missing white girl programming on CNN, I used to watch the religious stations on my satellite server to educate myself on what exactly these religious folks were getting from the pulpit. It was about this time that I was becoming aware that my church going acquaintances were getting propagandized in church. Since I went to religious school and the Bible and theology were among the courses I had to take, I can argue with Bible thumpers and know what I'm talking about. It was then that I realized those churches were not only telling poor people to send money but also to vote for certain candidates. Of course George Bush was deified in many of them. We need to stop this and put the churches, all of them, back into where the Constitution says they should be.

[southernyankeebelle]

12. That is why I don't going. Until the church realizes (I don't think they do) to stop advocates for

politicans I think they will loose people.

[Initech]

13. Yup and that's why courting this vote scares me.

[rufus dog]

11. They are missing the obvious choice.

Vote for Obama, but missing the obvious is the standard with some of these nuts.