Marginalization. Part 2.

This week Rasmussen reports that the top 4 republicans are Thompson, Giuliani, Romney, and McCain. Shocked I am...

Thompson and Giuliani have been trading places since June, even though, as we all know, Thompson didn't even enter the race until recently. Romney, who had been starting to pick up speed against Giuliani back in late May, immediately fell back and has yet to recover. In a consolation of sorts, it looks like Thompson has pulled most of his support from Giuliani. The reality may in fact be that Thompson is the only choice for the pro-gun constituency. Since as we all know, the other top tier guys all acted against guns, or our ability to talk about them. OOPS, I guess we forgot that Thompson was in on the McCain act as well.

And why was He running from the Values Voters debate? No one expected Giuliani, McCain, or Romney to show in what was effectively a hostile crowd. But Thompson had been hailed as the savior to those looking for a solid principled candidate. His lack of attendance likely hurt him more than any answer he could have given.

If you posit that the Values Voters Debate was the forum for the evangelical right voting block, then once again, the evangelical right opinion is considered not relevant to the campaign. Even if you look at his website today there is no mention of the abortion issue other than the vaguely worded commitment to "promote a culture of life." Whatever that means. The message is the same: The "Evangelical" vote is a given, so don't worry about them.

Christians need to get over their embarrassment at getting the first Clinton elected the first time, and decide what principles they are going to support above personality and party.

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The marginalization of the Christian Vote. Part 1.

Courtesy of WND, we have more background on the stifling of rational debate as Jerome Corsi relates:

In a heated conversation at the Friday banquet of Phyllis Schalfly's
Eagle Council meeting in St. Louis last week, Jed Babbin, editor of Human Events,
repeated accusations that I am a "black helicopter Internet conspiracy
theorist" for arguing that the Bush administration is pursing the North
American Union and NAFTA Superhighways through the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP.

In response, I observed that Babbin has taken Human Events in the
direction of becoming an apologist for the Republican Party, not a
critical forum for conservative debate.

Then Later:

The argument became even
more heated when I pointed out that many moral conservatives, including
myself, are tired of being threatened by Republican apologists of the
disasters that will happen if we fail to vote for Republicans.
Babbin predictably raised the specter of Hillary Clinton,
asserting that by attacking President Bush I was only electing Hillary,
the real enemy Babbin thinks we should be united to oppose.
I tried to explain to Babbin that I am much closer to Richard
Viguerie's position on the question, arguing that the Republican Party
should win our support, not demand it.

The Christian Vote has become increasingly marginalized; and we have only ourselves to blame. The "lessor of two evils" that has dominated "Christian" politics ever since Clinton was elected served only to put us in the position we are now; where there are no pro-Christian candidates in the top tier of either party. (And by their actions, it is obvious that neither Hillary nor Mitt are pro-life, pro-Christian, or pro-liberty in any sense of the word.)

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