'This Is Not a Bluff'

The evangelicals didn't show up in 2006 for the mid term, and resulted in the Republicans lost the Senate. Now they want to dictate terms to the party they abandoned? As a mainstream Christian and a libertarian-minded conservative, I'm tired of evangelicals trying to hold the conservative movement hostage, and equally tired of the Republican party pandering to their agenda of legislating morality. The only way the Republican party can move forward again is to win without them.

I hope they form a third party so that I will finally be able to vote Republican. I'm a fiscal conservative, but the far right is such a turn-off, I could not allow myself to vote for them.

All this political ideology in the name of Christianity is ridiculous. Real Christians do not bicker and argue about political ideologies of alleged Christians. I am a Christian and I by no means believe what most of so called Christian fundamentalist believe. In fact I don't even know or acknowledge the term "Christian Fundamentalist" I don't even know what it means. It is just a politically motivated made up word. believe what Jesus preached: which is love, compassion fairness, towards all people. Real Christians want to better society and improve life for those around them not have political debates about what is right or wrong. Judgment I save that for God. Don't get me wrong it would be great to have another party not that I would care, because I don't vote republican or democrat I vote for the person running.

I agree with grayflexdreams almost completely.His comment about Founding fathers semantics is an assertion without evidence. The far right does poorly represents the Christian masses in America, but so does Romney. Mormonism and Christianity are not the same. Sadly, there are no candidates that represent the historic /apostolic Christian faith, like Christ intended.

I agree with grayflexdreams almost completely. I am a christian and the political right poorly represents the masses of true Christianity, but neither does Mormonism, so Romney is NOT the answer. Sadly there is no candidate out there that represents the historic/apostolic Christian faith as Christ intended.

I would vote for a third party candidate before I would vote for either Clinton or Giuliani.

i can fix all of the problems ..... fire them all and let us american citizens vote on all of the issues . as much as i love a good joke. from either side, i think i can speak for myself. as far as being a christian (my self) being better, well folks forget we're all sinners . i just go to the big guy and appologize, and try to be better. and i believe that when you are about to take that last gasp of air you'll know if you were rite or wrong.me i'll ltake a chance with jesus.

Christians in the U.S. have more toleration and freedom to practice their beliefs than in any place on this planet, but that's not enough. I was raised in mainstream Christianity and was a devout follower for 26 years. One of the many things that eventually pushed me away was the constant whining from the Christian Right about how "persecuted" they were, and how badly they wanted to take over the country. give me a break. Jesus never tried to gather all his followers to and organize them into a political force to force his agenda. After his resurrection, he didn't instruct his growing group of believers to do the same. The only thing he cared about was letting everyone know that he'd changed the way man related to God forever, and he wanted to have a personal, internal diolog with each and every human on earth. Period. No political motivations or agendas -- in fact, his single mission on earth was to UNDO the conservative, strict, overbearingly legal system of governance that the Jewish leaders had imposed on their people for hundreds of years. Ironic that the Christian Right wants to commit their act of social engineering that would be similar to Jesus' disciples reverting to the Old Testament laws of Jews.
Another thing that makes me really sad is how ignorant the Christian right regarding the way that the founding fathers (and generally everyone even until as recently as the 1970s) used references to "God" and "faith" and "creator". Don't people of today realize that these references were used widely and with great generality for hundreds of years? Particularly amongst the founding fathers, most of whom were products of the Enlightenment, particularly Ben Franklin. If anything, they "worshiped" REASON. They were opinionated theorists and philosophers and (probably above all) opportunists and businessmen. Most of them were Masons, and the term "Creator" that appears numerous times in the constitutional documents, if REALLY evaluated in context of all the different philosophies and beliefs of the contributors, was meant to be a very general term used in the absence of a better term. Most of the founding fathers believed in some kind of higher power, and if nothing else, they were sick and tired of the British rulers telling them WHAT to believe. For modern Christians to assume that the founding fathers were JUST LIKE THEM -- Bible-believing, twice-a-week worshipers who teach Sunday school and do their devotions every morning -- that's just such a huge stretch that it breaks.
The Christian Right needs to count their blessings and focus their energy on becoming Christ-like and taking care of their own. I'm doing fine without them thank you very much. More importantly, our political system is broken and corrupt and flawed enough without them making it just plain archaic, thank you even more...

YES! By ALL MEANS! I believe that the "Religious Right" should have their OWN political party, so that I can get my OWN party back - you know, the Goldwater-Reagan/conservative, Republican party, not this pack of Neo-Con jackals and their "moral imperatives", foreign adventures, intrusive government, and deficit spending. I've long argued that this country needs THREE political parties - one for the right wing loonies, one for the left wing loonies, and a centrist party which could govern while the other two attack each other. Let these whacko Christian jihadist go! In 4 years, without the necessity of kowtowing to their antediluvian attitudes and vile prejudices, maybe we can rebuild a Republican Party that can both win elections AND govern the country effectively.

Don't worry!! Hillary will never make president. She has way too much bad baggage and We The People, will not forget.
A third party is just what this country needs to put the Dems and Reps back into check. I am sick and tired of the Dems taxing me to death to help lazy people live for free, and sick and tired of the corporate greed, ceo's, profits and oil. Sick and tired, tired and sick.
I will be voting for Huckabee.

"Comment: The reason our country has fallen in the toilet is because americans lack of faith in God. And that includes fellow christians. We need a christian leader that can change the abortion laws, capital punishment, stop gay marriage and keep us out of war."

And what kind of Christian do you suggest? Catholic? Mormon? Christian Scientist? Oh, no, sorry, you mean a FUNDAMENTALIST Christian, don't you? None of the others even register on the "Christian" scale, do they?

And Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddists, Wiccans, etc...they're just off the map, aren't they?

Hmmmm, I know that the Puritans came to this country for something or other, now what was it again? Oh yeah, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM...ie, freedom from RELIGIOUS TYRANNY. Remember that tiny little detail the next time you want to push your own brand of "Christian" on every one else in America.