Posted by
sgtmajorbrad on Friday, November 30, 2007 12:44:22 PM
When someone tells me their criteria for approval of a
candidate is that the evangelical crowd has endorsed that person’s candidacy I
cringe. I envision the masses of voters abdicating their decision process to
those that have only their interests and their pocket books at heart. My dad taught me that when the preacher
preached with his palms up then hide your wallet because he was about to put
the bite on your finances. Looking back at some of the TV evangelists and their
lavish life style before they fell from grace affirms my dad’s theory. Reverend
Bob and his high maintenance wife were a local Dallas
example that had quite a fervent following here on the air waves bilking
retirees and old ladies out of their life savings.
I use the same theory when a politician is caught with their
hands in the till. The most recent Texas
that comes to mind is Tom Delay, the Texas Hammer. There were those that came
to Delay’s defense just on the subject alone that he was a good Christian and
he was being set up by the liberal left and falsely accused. After he and
Abramoff were caught stuffing their
pockets with those illegal donations he resigned from the House and the
speaker’s position. I can’t understand why he is not in jail like Abramhoff and
no one challenges his public appearances as a criminal in limbo. Resigning in
disgrace he squealed: “I am sustained by my lord and savior. When you go
through this kind of adversity, I got to tell you, if you know Him and He's on
your side, there ain't nothing but joy.” My response to this is, “Did God get
his cut?”
For those that want to challenge this assessment of Delay
check out Pbs's
Capitol Crimes . It is worth the time and is very informative.
Now while I generally like Chuck Norris his political
endorsement of an evangelical candidate holds little weight with me. His
persona and popularity has been created by professionals for the silver screen
and in that context alone I’m suspicious. I know nothing of Chuck’s reasons for
supporting Huckabee other than he represents Chuck’s view of Christian values
and opposes abortion. I’m against abortion in a personal choice but who am I to
dictate someone else’s decision? Maybe a compromise can be reached in that if
you decide to abort your pregnancy you also agree to sterilization at the same
time to prevent future abortions. This might put a stringent fear of the
consequences of spitting out an unwanted love trophy in relation to abstinence
and contraception. If they put Ted Kennedy or Nancy Pelosi as a poster child
for abortion I might change my position altogether.
Mike Huckabee might end up as my choice for a presidential
candidate but it won’t be because he is a Baptist Minister. I’m a firm believer
in the separation of Church and State and don’t want any more wars fought in
the name of God. We’re killing kids in Iraq
right now because Bush thought it was his divine responsibility to bring
democracy to the middle east. I want someone that will enforce our borders and
not grant amnesty and special treatment to invading criminals. Judging
Huckabee’s recent examples in Arkansas
with the building the Mexican consulate at taxpayer expense and giving instate
tuition and scholarships to illegal aliens he has a long way to go to convince
me that he should be my candidate of choice.
I’d prefer to make my own decision and accept the
responsibility for those decisions instead of becoming a lemming and jumping
off an evangelical cliff to satisfy someone else’s opinion of who gets your
vote.