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Title: CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Impressive list of Trump sins, spectacular displays of the seven deadlys, scripturally & spiritually flawed
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Bangor Daily News
URL Source: https://bangordailynews.com/2016/03 ... d-trump-defender-of-the-faith/
Published: Mar 6, 2016
Author: Charles Krauthammer
Post Date: 2016-03-06 18:10:04 by Hondo68
Keywords: open bomb bay doors, full scale attack on Trump, very core appeal tough guy
Views: 1122
Comments: 9
What happened to the evangelicals? They were supposed to be the bedrock of the Ted Cruz candidacy. Yet, on Super Tuesday, he lost them to Donald Trump. Cruz still did make a reasonably good showing, winning Alaska, Oklahoma and Texas, the latter by an impressive 17 points. But he didn’t have the great night he needed to put away Marco Rubio and emerge as Trump’s one remaining challenger. Cruz had done all the groundwork to win evangelicals and sweep the South by putting together strong alliances with local pastors and leaders. And yet, outside Oklahoma and Texas, he lost them to Trump by stunning margins — by 21 points in Alabama, 13 in Georgia, 14 in Tennessee, 16 in Virginia and 36 in, of all places, Massachusetts. How could this have happened? A more scripturally, spiritually flawed man than Trump would be hard to find. As several anti-Trump evangelical voices have argued, Christian witness cannot possibly support a thrice-married man with such an impressive list of sins, featuring especially spectacular displays of the seven deadlys. These theological arguments are eloquent and impassioned but, in this season of fear and anxiety, beside the point. This time around, evangelicals are not looking for someone like them. They’re looking for someone who will protect them. They’ve tried backing exemplary Scripture-quoting Christians — without result. After Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum and considerations of Cruz himself, they are increasingly reluctant to support like-minded candidates who are nonetheless incapable of advancing their cause in a hostile political arena so dominated by secularism. They have no illusions about Trump. They have no expectations of religious uplift. What he offers them is not spirit but “muscle” — to borrow a word from the notorious former professor Melissa Click of the University of Missouri. The transaction was illuminated by Trump’s January speech at Liberty University. His earlier halfhearted attempts to pose as a fellow evangelical were amusing and entirely unconvincing. At Liberty, he made another such I’m-one-of-you gesture by citing a biblical verse in “Two Corinthians,” thereby betraying a risible lack of familiarity with biblical language and usage. Yet, elsewhere in the speech, he described how Christians abroad are being massacred and Christians here at home are under cultural and political siege. “We’re going to protect Christianity,” he pledged. Interesting locution. Not just Christians, but Christianity itself. What Trump promises is to stand outside the churchyard gates and protect the faithful inside. He’s the Roman centurion standing between them and both barbarians abroad and aggressive secularists at home. The message is clear: I may not be one of you. I can’t recite or even correctly cite Scripture. But I will patrol the borders of Christendom on your behalf. After all, who do you want out there — a choir boy or a tough guy with a loaded gun and a kick-ass demeanor? Evangelicals answered resoundingly. They went for Trump in a rout. The essence of Trump’s appeal everywhere, far beyond evangelicals, is precisely the same: “I’m tough, I will protect you.” That’s why he remains so bulletproof. His lack of policy, the contradictory nature of his pronouncements that pass as policy — especially their capricious eruption and summary abandonment — have turned out to be an irrelevance. Who cares? His support has nothing to do with actual prescriptions. Tuesday night, the immigration issue ranked low among Republican voters’ concerns. Only about 10 percent deemed it their No. 1 issue. The political success of Trump’s draconian immigration stance lies not in the policy but in the attitude — a not-going-to-take-it-anymore defiance. That’s the reason none of the rhetorical outrages that would have destroyed another candidacy have even left a mark on Trump. He mocks John McCain’s heroism, insults Carly Fiorina’s looks, fawns over Vladimir Putin — nothing. If anything, he gains support for fearless “telling it like it is” candor. This is a man who three times last Sunday refused to disavow David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. No other candidate could survive that. Trump not only survives, he thrives. Two days later, he wins seven out of 11 Super Tuesday states and ascends to the threshold of presumptive nominee. Which is why the only possible way to stop Trump is a full-scale, open-the-bomb-bay-doors attack on the very core of his appeal: his persona of the tough guy you can trust to protect you. It may be too late. But everything else will simply bounce off the Teflon. Poster Comment: Do we need Krauthammer to be our spiritual nanny, czar of religious purity? I'm no fan of Trump, but this is a pantload!
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Krauthammer was outraged at the depiction of High Priest Caiaphas in Mel Gibson's “The Passion of the Christ.” Followers of Jesus Christ might want to pass up all the free advice from the Caiaphas fan club. Caiaphas was a dirt bag, he prostituted the temple to the money changers and had Jesus murdered, and that's the type of guy Krauthammer defends. Krauthammer prefers public figures such as Caiaphas and Rubio. A more degenerate POS you will be hard pressed to find. Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
secularism liberals they love If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
Your Fox News deity Krauthammer is satan, a false god. church love antichrist If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
To borrow from the fiction of the Batman movies, "have you danced with the devil in the pale moonlight" This is what lots of americans are doing right now, dancing with the devil, in fact dancing with two-face Donald Dump
Wow is Alf making a come back?!
For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:6-8)
Who really gives a rats ass what CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER has to say?
Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There are no Carthaginian terrorists. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Right, we have done what you establishment bozos want, time and time again. They have never done a single thing for the average joe. Screw them they need to find some new patsies to screw over.
me an establishment bozo, hardly I have danced with the odd populist candidate in my time, but I have never come out ahead. I agree with some of Dump ideas, like keep migrants out and send illegals back, but it is difficult to agree with a foriegn policy that leads to war and more confrontationism. If making america great means doing down the rest of the world, and in Dump's idea it does, then it is not a road to be on. dump won't do anything for the average Joe, unless you think lower wages is doing something
Do we need Krauthammer to be our spiritual nanny, czar of religious purity?
#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
they are increasingly reluctant to support like-minded candidates who are nonetheless incapable of advancing their cause in a hostile political arena so dominated by secularism
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#3. To: BorisY, neotards (#2)
secularism is what this country was founded upon
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#4. To: hondo68 (#3)
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#5. To: hondo68 (#0)
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#6. To: hondo68 (#3)
#7. To: hondo68 (#0)
#8. To: paraclete (#5)
This is what lots of americans are doing right now, dancing with the devil, in fact dancing with two-face Donald Dump
#9. To: calcon (#8)
Right, we have done what you establishment bozos want, time and time again.
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