Comments on: GOP: Too many “leaders,” too few ideas

By: Jesus luvs Cannabis

Jesus luvs Cannabis — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:36:59 +0000

Corinthians 4:20 “Ye up high on the mount, Jesus sighs in disgust when the self-righteous call other humans illegal, and the disciples toked from the holy oil and they had a nice supper”

By: Tom Middleton

Tom Middleton — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:42:33 +0000

CJ: We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar’s.

You seemed to have missed something, my friend: God’s law is higher by far than anything Caesar’s. If you’re not loving God first “with all your heart, mind and soul,” and “Doing unto others as you would have others do unto you,” then all you’re doing is rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar’s. So how does this make you a real Christian, especially one willing to make all women with unwanted pregnancies carry their fetuses to term?

The Golden Rule is about empathy and love for other individuals. So knowing the incredible task before any would-be mother in today’s world, even under the best of circumstances, why are you so willing to impose your will on any having little to no help at all.

Who’s going to help her, you? Are you willing to make that long-term commitment? How about government? Are you willing to pay more taxes for this approach? Like so many others on this blog, apparently not! So under what circumstances are you willing to help her, any at all?

If we’re to render unto God what is God’s, why wouldn’t you be willing to help any and all women you force to carry their fetuses to term, raise their children. This is what God would have you do, you know, so why can’t you see this utter contradiction in your staunch anti-abortion position?

If you’re not willing to help, CJ, then maybe you should stay out of the way and allow the women with unwanted pregnancies to make their own decisions based on their own personal relationships with our one God, not on your misconceptions about what a real relationship with God is all about!

By: Uncle Tom Bill

Uncle Tom Bill — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:30:51 +0000

Conservative, hummmmmm, what kind social, or fiscal?
Far too many people attach themselves to the term conservatism , when in fact in many instances they are NOT conservative at all!
During the sixties, many white males in the South, jumped aboard the “conservative bandwagon”, simply because Barry Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Bill. IMHO this attitude still is in effect among some. Being Black and a Republican for forty years, I’ve seen the unmasking of many so-called conservatives, as mere bigots.
If the party wants to regain its status, inclusion is number one.
No inclusion, no regaining of power.

By: Tom Middleton

Tom Middleton — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:27:05 +0000

You’re right to put Republican “leaders” in quotes, Cynthia, because the Repubes have only one – that big, fat idiot (said Al Franken) Rush Limbaugh.

The addictive-prone, big-mouthed, and really quite insane Rush is having an ecstatic ball running his very own political party, in addition to his $400 million radio contract. And when it comes to big ideas – I mean ideas that really work – he has only one: feed Rush’s super-sized egomania.

How long will it be before the Republicans wake up to the fact that, slowly but surely, they’re going down. And what’s their up-and-coming answer to all this? Why Sarah Palin, Rush’s hand-picked and personally counseled lap hound. Yeah, now there’s the party of America’s new-and-improved future…NOT.

I thought Republicans finally learned their lesson with President Bush and blithering (idiot) Cheney about putting liars into leadership positions. But apparently last November’s voter tsunami has yet to register on the Republican strategy scale of zero to smart, and it seems highly unlikely it’ll be starting any time soon!

By: CJ

CJ — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:55:26 +0000

THE MANHATTAN DECLARATION…”…As Christians, we take seriously the Biblical admonition to respect and obey those in authority. We believe in law and in the rule of law. We recognize the duty to comply with laws whether we happen to like them or not, unless the laws are gravely unjust or require those subject to them to do something unjust or otherwise immoral. The biblical purpose of law is to preserve order and serve justice and the common good; yet laws that are unjust—and especially laws that purport to compel citizens to do what is unjust—undermine the common good, rather than serve it.
Going back to the earliest days of the church, Christians have refused to compromise their proclamation of the gospel. In Acts 4, Peter and John were ordered to stop preaching. Their answer was, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to obey you rather than God. For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.” Through the centuries, Christianity has taught that civil disobedience is not only permitted, but sometimes required. There is no more eloquent defense of the rights and duties of religious conscience than the one offered by Martin Luther King, Jr., in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Writing from an explicitly Christian perspective, and citing Christian writers such as Augustine and Aquinas, King taught that just laws elevate and ennoble human beings because they are rooted in the moral law whose ultimate source is God Himself. Unjust laws degrade human beings. Inasmuch as they can claim no authority beyond sheer human will, they lack any power to bind in conscience. King’s willingness to go to jail, rather than comply with legal injustice, was exemplary and inspiring.
Because we honor justice and the common good, we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family. We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar’s. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God’s.

By: Kamchak

Kamchak — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:37:54 +0000

These are the core beliefs of a party who does not seek to ban any speech or religious activity with which they disagree.

Perhaps you haven’t heard about the GOP’s ten point purity resolution. Violate any three and the candidate receives no money or party endorsement.

So much for the assertion that the GOP is”party who does not seek to ban any speech.”

By: ctucker

ctucker — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:34:05 +0000

Joan,
I wasn’t writing about “conservatives.” I was writing about “Republicans.”

By: ctucker

ctucker — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:33:15 +0000

Common Sense, your comment that my “bias stains everything” I write had a certain poetry, but it strains, ah, common sense. This blog is a commentary blog, so “bias” is what it’s all about.
As for whether “staff” should have been at the entry to the White House, perhaps so. But there was no staff present, so only guests whose names had already been cleared should have been admitted.
I’ve been to the White House. I had to submit my DOB and Social Security number days in advance for pre-clearance. everyone who accepts an invitation has been asked to do the same. No one is supposed to be admitted who has not been pre-cleared.
As for the number of threats, the Secret Service has admitted that Obama has received more threats than any other president in modern history.

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:22:09 +0000

Ms. Tucker:

You have lost all credibility since you ignored the facts of my posts on the previous thread re: the U.S. Secret Service.

Your bias is beyond repair and stains everything you write..

By: Shawny

Shawny — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:43:15 +0000

Since Obama is the opposite of conservative, conservatives would, by default, have an easy time rallying around a position of anti-Obama. Duh.

That is not enough to win elections, granted. But it is a starting point. The country will see the tab for too many govt programs, hopefully see the light, and elect a different president in 2012.