Showing posts with label Tim LaHaye. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tim LaHaye. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Obama is the Anti-Christ & Dead Jerry Falwell has sent urgent word from Paradise “Vote Gingrich”

Trouble amid the "Jesus told Us All" Texas secret conclave deciding on their chosen one for "holy anointment" for "God's choice" in the 2012 GOP Nomination process.

Needing to have a voice in the GOP in order to save their billion dollar Christian Broadcasting and allied businesses, a secret group of 150 Rad Religious Rightists met in Texas at the ranch home of the man who promoted the tsunamic change in the Southern Baptist Convention from religiously moderate to hard-shell extreme Fundamentalists,one Judge Paul Pressler.

The following monologue from MSNBC News is most enlightening:
"One very specific point of light in the religious right pantheon has made his own endorsement today.

"Do you remember old Tim LaHaye?

"Tim LaHaye - the author of all of those books about the rapture, Mr. Left Behind, the Obama is the anti-Christ guy...Tim LaHaye, Mr. Rapture - today endorsed Newt Gingrich for president. He sent a letter to South Carolina religious leaders urging them to unite behind Newt Gingrich`s candidacy. Mr. LaHaye describing Newt Gingrich as having the best chance of beating President Barack Obama.

(LaHaye's) letter said, quote, 'IF WE DO NOT CHANGE OUR LEADERS IN THE NEXT ELECTION, WE WILL END UP BEING LIKE THE GODLESS SOCIALIST COUNTRIES OF EUROPE THAT WILL SO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY IN FOUR YEARS, THAT MANY EXPERTS BELIEVE WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO RECLAIM IT FOR MORAL AND PHYSICAL SANITY.'

(We may ask) "who the experts are who say I agree with him. But, (we) should also note that Tim LaHaye in his letter also says that Jerry Falwell is endorsing Newt Gingrich from beyond the grave.

"Jerry Falwell, of course, is dead.

"But Tim LaHaye says in this letter that before Jerry Falwell died, he told Tim LaHaye that, quote, 'Speaker Newt Gingrich is the most qualified man in America to run as president of the United States.' Mr. Gingrich for his part said today that he was very happy to receive the endorsement of Tim LaHaye.

"Mr. Gingrich did not comment on whether or not he was happy to receive the endorsement of dead Jerry Falwell." 
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See Also: "Tim LaHaye, 'Left Behind' Author, Endorses Gingrich, Says Jerry Falwell Backs Newt From Grave" on Huff Post January 13, 2012.


This Endorsement of Gingrich by LaHaye et.al. is Desperate
THE ONE CLEAR MESSAGE in all the falderol is: The Rad Religious Right are far more interested in winning the election by:

1.) Backing their choice of candidates (however flawed) based on "perceived electability",

2.) Keeping an inside track to the hundreds of millions of taxpayer/handout dollars going to their so-called "faith-based" projects and initiatives,

3.) Renewing/having the "inside track" to the Oval Office as the Rad Religious Rightists did under George W. Bush.

These items are more important to the Rad Religious Right than is elevating/protecting moral purity (which Gingrich has not/does not possess) and defending the moral "high ground" so revered and sacred to their faithful followers who regularly vote as "a body of one" at the polls.

One wonders how this all plays in Heaven?


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Friday, January 6, 2012

The 'Mouse' in the Room in the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary Seeking the Defeat of Barack Obama

Why Are Libertarian Leaning Republicans, the GOP’s True BLUE R.I.N.O.’s, Suddenly Afraid of the ”Mouse” That Scares the 'B' Juses Out of Their Effort to Unseat Pres. Obama?

The "Mouse" in the elephant's cage is not really so small a fright as it once was back when Jerry Falwell joined Frank Schaeffer (Christian Right leaders such as Tim LaHaye have credited Schaeffer for influencing their theological arguments urging political participation by evangelicals. (American terrorist) Randall Terry, the founder of Operation Rescue, also acknowledged the influence of Schaeffer"- Wikipedia) together these two created a powerful coalition of values voters/so-called social conservatives who could join the Misogamy of Phyllis Schafley's anti-ERA crusade ("Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women" ) with the roiling Jim Crow sentiment that brought the Dixicrats into the Republican fold en mass under Barry Goldwater and Barry's ardent refusal to approve the Civil Rights legislation of the early 1960's.

Catering to the social conservative activists and pastor-led "church going voters"in Iowa has become a GIANT PROBLEM for the national Republican nomination process. Giving "social conservatives" the wheel and the driver's seat in legislation and candidate selection is seen as a clear path to SURE DEFEAT and the easy reelection of President Barack Obama.

An ardent Social Conservative may win the primary, and almost surely lose the November national election.

Always there has been the GOP Establishment's ability to slip stream, mollify, the anti-abortionists and ilk; just as every GOP president since Reagan has done so well. Now, having used this "morals issue" over and over, it's time to give the so-called "Social Conservatives" the big bone they are demanding, that they have worked so slavishly to obtain-a moral over-ride, cart blanche to enact any or all the raft of legislation these Hard/Harsh/Disciplining Fundamentalists, driven by "strong faith," desire.

The frothing desire of so-called "Social Conservatives" to enact all the oppressive and repressive laws and legislation they desire has the ability to stymie the Marketplace Corporatists (whose heyday of economic advantage has hidden under the skirts of "Social Conservatives." )

Here is the rub. If the "social conservatives" do not come out for a "strong convictions GOP candidate," sit on their hands and not vote at all, then the rolling advantage and heyday of Marketplace Entrepreneurals (given special advantage by Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and Strict Catholics) will dry up and their commercial and legislative, unearned advantage will have to be won by Corporatists and "Market Fundamentalists" on their own merits.

No more True Believers handing out a free ride to Wall Street con men, Ken Lay, Enron, Koch Industries, and Amway could change and moderate the rancorous American political scene in a most healing manner.


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