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Blogging The South Carolina Result - jaxx - 01-21-2012 09:47 PM
*Very good read at the top, and then goes back through the night.*
21 Jan 2012 07:00 PM
Live-Blogging The South Carolina Results
9.54 pm. I'm done now. Enjoy your Saturday night. My take away? This is the Republican crack-up people have been predicting for years. Gingrich is on a roll. I think he can win this - and then lose this in a way that could change America history. That is a brief impression in one moment of time. But I cannot see Romney winning this at this point. They are just not into him, and he's an awful candidate.
<..> And we have the core McCarthyite theme: American exceptionalism versus the Saul Alinsky radicalism. "We" are Americans. Obama is a traditional America-hater.
Then the religion card: the increasing anti-religious "bigotry" of the elites will be his enemy. He will deploy race and religion and nationalism as his themes. No wonder South Carolina loved him. And rather than retreating on the racially charged "food stamp president" line, he reiterates it.
This is what the GOP now is, and it deserves its spokesman. But do not under-estimate the appeal to some of the idea of humiliating and removing the first black president. That's what Gingrich is really about. He is giving them what they want. And it's meat that has barely seen a skillet.
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/01/live-blogging-the-south-carolina-results.html
RE: Blogging The South Carolina Result - PoliticalTiger - 01-21-2012 10:13 PM
The MSNBC exit poll showed "evangelical Christians accounted for nearly two-thirds of the electorate and Gingrich easily beat Romney in that group: 44 percent to 21 percent.....Three out of five voters interviewed in the exit poll said that it mattered somewhat or greatly whether a candidate shared their religious views and Gingrich beat Romney by better than two to one among such voters."
I find that fasinating.
The hoilier-than-thou crowd went for a man whose life is riddled with the most immoral behavior of probably any canidate for president in recent times! What does that say about the religious right? Well, I think it says what we already all know, That things like "family values" and "traditional marriage" are simply slogans of a party that embraces hypocrisy while at the same time denoucing it. But to see it displayed so openly, memorilized in black and white, is really something.
RE: Blogging The South Carolina Result - There Is No Spoon - 01-21-2012 11:27 PM
(01-21-2012 10:13 PM)PoliticalTiger Wrote: The MSNBC exit poll showed "evangelical Christians accounted for nearly two-thirds of the electorate and Gingrich easily beat Romney in that group: 44 percent to 21 percent.....Three out of five voters interviewed in the exit poll said that it mattered somewhat or greatly whether a candidate shared their religious views and Gingrich beat Romney by better than two to one among such voters."
I find that fasinating.
The hoilier-than-thou crowd went for a man whose life is riddled with the most immoral behavior of probably any canidate for president in recent times! What does that say about the religious right? Well, I think it says what we already all know, That things like "family values" and "traditional marriage" are simply slogans of a party that embraces hypocrisy while at the same time denoucing it. But to see it displayed so openly, memorilized in black and white, is really something.
Or, to simplify:
Evangelical Christians voted for Satan.
RE: Blogging The South Carolina Result - Andy823 - 01-21-2012 11:57 PM
(01-21-2012 11:27 PM)There Is No Spoon Wrote: Or, to simplify:Yes, it just goes to show how phony they really are. They claim to be "real" christians, yet vote for a scumbag like Newt. That pretty much says it all.
Evangelical Christians voted for Satan.
HYPOCRITES, pure and simple!
RE: Blogging The South Carolina Result - SeattleGirl - 01-22-2012 01:19 AM
(01-21-2012 11:57 PM)Andy823 Wrote:(01-21-2012 11:27 PM)There Is No Spoon Wrote: Or, to simplify:Yes, it just goes to show how phony they really are. They claim to be "real" christians, yet vote for a scumbag like Newt. That pretty much says it all.
Evangelical Christians voted for Satan.
HYPOCRITES, pure and simple!
For the life of me, I can find nothing "Christian" in any of them.
And Jesus wept.