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2012 Republican Hopefuls Court Religious Right

WASHINGTON (AP) — A gathering of religious conservatives drew nearly all the GOP presidential hopefuls to a single stage, a claim that a South Carolina debate and a well-publicized forum in New Hampshire couldn’t make about their recent events.

The Faith and Freedom Coalition’s two-day conference proved that the religious right still plays a major role in the nominating process, even if it‘s less organized than during the Christian Coalition’s heyday and economic issues are dominating the early campaign.

The gathering was a tryout for candidates hoping to fill a void left by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. The Southern Baptist minister won the 2008 Iowa caucus but is not running this time.

Most of the candidates spent more time on money issues than on spiritual matters on the opening day of the conference Friday. But they generally portrayed the federal debt and health care policies as moral concerns.

They also paid tribute to religious conservatives who often place abortion, gay marriage and other social issues ahead of questions such as taxes and spending.

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman bypassed a large scrum of journalists but did give an interview to the Christian-oriented CBN network.

“I do not believe the Republican Party should focus solely on our economic life to the neglect of our human life,” Huntsman told the conference audience of several hundred after citing numerous anti-abortion laws he signed as governor.

Huntsman and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are Mormons, a group eyed suspiciously by some Christian conservatives. They did not directly mention Mormonism in their remarks.

The Republican contenders who seem to be making the most direct appeals to evangelical voters are former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who declined an invitation to the conference.

Pawlenty, a Catholic-turned-Protestant evangelical, opened and closed his remarks with biblical quotes. His said his top four “commonsense principles” for the nation are to turn toward God, protect the unborn, support traditional marriage and keep Americans secure.

Bachmann, inching toward a presidential bid, reminded the audience that she home-schooled her five children and served as foster mother to 23 others. She said “marriage is under siege” in America and she ended with a prayer that asked a blessing for President Barack Obama, whom she had sharply criticized moments earlier.

Romney, seen as the Republicans’ early front-runner, may have the toughest task in wooing religious conservatives. As a Senate candidate and one-term governor in Massachusetts, he supported legalized abortion, gay rights and gun control.

Romney has reversed his stands on those positions. Since speakers didn’t take audience questions at the event, he had an easier time than he will in other settings.

He cited “our belief in the sanctity of human life,“ and said marriage should apply to ”one man and one woman.” Romney blamed Obama for the nation’s high unemployment. Job losses can push marriages to the breaking point, he said, calling it “a moral crisis.”

Rep. Ron Paul of Texas mixed quotes from the Bible’s first book of Samuel with his familiar libertarian proposals, such as returning to the gold standard.

All these lines got applause. Still, a sense of unease sometimes hung over the event. Organizers acknowledged that some religious conservatives are not happy with the heavy emphasis on economic matters these days.

The audience members sat silently when Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour urged them to embrace the eventual nominee despite the certainty that they will disagree with him or her on some issues.

“Purity is the enemy of victory,” said Barbour, who has decided against his own presidential bid.

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Comments (68)

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  • charles1540
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:22am

    Politicians are all a like you pander to the religious groups instead of focusing on the problems it the ECONOMY AND IF YOU REPUBLICANS HAVE NOT FIGURED IT OUT YOU ARE GOING TO FIND OUT COME NOV. 2012…. DO ANY OF YOU CANDIDATES HAVE A CLUE!!!!

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  • southernORcobra
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:05pm

    if that nominee is romney or paul then hell no I won’t support them

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  • hcartexas
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 5:16pm

    F t paw, F mit romney, F trump. we need a conservative or nothing!!! People do not settle for less!! If a luke warm, milk toast candidate gets in for the republicans… im out!!! and you should be to…. either we take the republican party back now, or form our own.

    TEA.

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  • inferno
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 4:21pm

    If the right is “pro religion”, does that mean the left is “anti religion ?” Logically it would seem so.
    However you never hear the media mention the “anti religion” left.

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  • lynnissmart
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:33am

    Ron Paul told the audience “we don’t need a king”….!!!! Has anybody else had the guts to say that….?

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    • cous1933
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 4:12pm

      Lynn you are smart.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 5:20am

      With all due respect, it doesn’t take a lot of guts to state the obvious. While I like Ron Paul’s ideas, I also know he is underfunded, and you KNOW that damned Obama has a big pile of special interest (and probably foreign) bucks for his campaign, already. He’s probably getting BILLIONS from that old snake Soros. I would not want to back Paul, only to see him fade in the stretch when the media starts ignoring him to death. They can make him appear a non-viable candidate and “ignore” him right out of the race–they have done it many times before to good candidates who would have been better than the choice we were given when the dust settled. That is what happened in 2008–there were lots of good candidates at the beginning of the race–and everyone of them got marginalized and/or ignored to death by the MSM, until the last man standing was John McCain-. NOBODY was wildly enthused about him. Many were so disgusted they did not vote at all–but the Dems sure did–pouring in from every city and cemetery in America. We simply can’t afford to let that happen again, or take a chance that OBummer wins again, or we and our country are SCREWED. Again, and probably for the final time.

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  • hi
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:00am

    RiNo RoMneY….We don’t want you

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  • kestrel27
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 10:36am

    So what’s the big deal. The progressives court the ******* that hate America everyday and go so far as to defend their every radical, dispicable moves. At least with Christians, you don’t have to worry about them strapping on bombs and blowing people to smithereens in the name of their religion. Liberals can’t stand the so called religious right, because they see themselves a gods and believing in GOD interferes with their over inflated self esteem.

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  • nonofmybiznez
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 10:26am

    The Republicans don’t have a chance to beat Obama if they ignore the Hispanic voters. There is now a movement starting to mobilize Latin voters starting in Tucson, Arizona. The Republican’s best chance is to put forth a ticket with Herman Cain and Marco Rubio. The Republicans need to get busy and put an immigration package together that allows illegal aliens a path to citizenship. Issue green cards and put them at the back of the line behind legal entrants giving them hope. They should pay taxes, get jobs, get sponsors, be crime-free (except for that illegal entry thing) and whatever is already required for citizenship. We already have a path to citizenship. We could start pushing the Mexican government to combine with the U.S. to become one with us. Then people wouldn’t need to come here. Okay, maybe I’m dreaming, but you have to start somewhere.

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  • sbenard
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 8:35am

    Romney’s earlier positions of being pro-abortion, pro-gay, and pro gun control are ALL contrary to the positions of his own faith. I know because I’m a member. That‘s why I don’t support him, and why I don’t care for Huntsman either. When Hunstman was Utah’s governor, he was a RINO is a staunchly conservative state. Most Mormons are solid conservatives BECAUSE of their faith, not in spite of it! Huntsman was solidly to the left of most people in a state that was solidly conservative! He was out of sync then, and continues to be today.

    I won’t vote for Gingrich, either. He can’t be trusted.

    I would much rather see Bachmann or Cain win the nomination. But then, I’m a conservative, NOT a Republican. BIG difference!

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 3:14pm

      re: “I would much rather see Bachmann or Cain win the nomination. But then, I’m a conservative, NOT a Republican. BIG difference!”

      While I don’t agree with your choice of candidates :), you are RIGHT ON with the rest. The media and a lot of other people are simply buying this idea that Conservative = Automatic Republican Vote, when nothing could be further from the truth! Republicans have not represented “conservative” values for a long time, regardless of what they say. They have simply bought into the Big Government lie and jumped on the gravy train to sop up all the gravy they can before they run out of biscuits.

      Republicans should not assume they have a “lock” on Conservative votes. If they cannot give us a candidate that we can actually vote FOR, instead of a tired old rerun like Romney (remember he did not win the LAST time he ran, either), then they do not deserve our votes.

      Allen West is the candidate who can beat OBummer – Allen West in 2012!

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 7:18am

    Wait a minute–when did Obama nationalize healthcare Romney? I don’t recall that EVER happening. There isn’t even a public option in the plan–just a mandate, some rules, and requirements that try to make the private market more competitive. If he’s referring to the mandate, then that means the government has also nationalized all of the cars in America by requiring them to have seat belts which must be worn and requiring the drivers to have insurance.

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 7:13am

    I love how Romney pretends that people in the audience voted for Obama–no one in that audience voted for Obama in the first place; they all voted for the grumpy old dude. They never liked him from the beginning. And if you evaluate Obama from a Leftist perspective, the only disappointment is that he hasn’t really done anything all that radical, despite rhetoric to the contrary (no duh the conservatives are going to call him a socialist and a radical–it’s what they do every election cycle to every Democrat, going back as far as I can remember). He’s instituted a handful of timid reforms that the conservatives, rightly so, point out haven‘t done enough to fix America’s problems. Very amusing.

    And Humanity Shall Overcome, No Matter What the Cost

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 5:09am

      Yeah, see, we held our nose and voted for the “Old Dude”, even though we did not like HIM, either–because he was the only choice we had, given the alternative. I don’t recall anybody accusing any other Democratic President of being a Communist traitor. NONE of them ever shredded the Constitution the way Obama does daily, or seemed so hellbent on dismantling our economy and selling us down the river to the Communists, Muslims, or whatever nut-job group he could sell us out to, just as long as he got the job done of destroying America. The man has made no secret of his hatred for this country, and he is one of the biggest racists, race-baiters and race-dividers I have ever seen, black or white!

      I might not have liked most of the other Democratic presidents that much, but I never thought any of them were traitors to their country or out to destroy it–except for Obama. And you complain he is not “radical” enough? What would be radical enough in the White House for you? Lenin? Mao? Ghadaffi? Of course the REALLY scary thing is Obama is obviously a puppet, because he is not smart enough to conceive or execute the plan he is following.. And please don’t waste your breath telling me how “brilliant” he is I know bullsheet when I smell it, thanks. My eyes, ears and brain tell me otherwise. That is ANOTHER distinction between him and past Dem POTUS–I never felt any of THEM were puppets, or so stupid they could not speak coherently without a teleprompter.

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 7:09am

    @Trump

    I don’t think Obama was unaware that the year was 2011–probably he didn’t realize he had put 08 in the year. As for Bush, he probably made that mistake himself, and even if he didn’t, do you know what a far worse mistake is? Starting a war on false pretenses (I’m referring to Iraq for those that are slow; Afghanistan was fine–we actually killed Osama bin Laden very close to there, pretty much exactly where we thought he would be)–oops, that only cost a boatload of money and more of our citizens’ blood.

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 7:04am

    The audience is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO white.

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 6:34am

    @5:30 Pawlenty

    Wall Street actually IS the worst offender numerically speaking. That’s not including the revenue we lose to tax break programs for them…or a whole host of other externalities we end up paying for (either through the government, or with our own blood and money).

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 6:30am

    Ooh, ethanol subsidies Pawlenty, you’re brave taking on a subsidy for an “alternative” fuel (alternative to petroleum, it’s still a hydrocarbon fuel). Are you going to mention corn subsidies or the whole host of other agricultural subsidies, or are you going to do the typical Republican thing and only gut the things the effect the constituencies that don’t traditionally vote for you? What about all the subsidies bussinesses get in the form of tax write-offs that allow owners to deduct large portions of their personal incomes and expenses as a “business expense” and in doing so contribute far more to our deficit than any entitlement program a Democrat has ever suggested. Do you realize that one week of Bush tax cuts, a measly 3%, costs more than the entirety of the amount Republicans want to cut from the food stamps programs, ANNUAL budget?

    And Humanity Shall Overcome, No Matter What the Cost

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 6:23am

    Tim Pawlenty said “it doesn’t pay the mortgage” twice–within a minute of each other. He’s the Mayonnaise candidate, which actually will probably help him.

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 6:17am

    “Romney, seen as the Republicans’ early front-runner, may have the toughest task in wooing religious conservatives. As a Senate candidate and one-term governor in Massachusetts, he supported legalized abortion, gay rights and gun control.”

    I’m all for guns as much as the next American, but what exactly does gun control have to do with religious conservatism?

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 8:55am

      this needs to be vetted by the Republicans now
      not by the democrats the day before the 2012 election

      http://www.christiandefense.org/mor_black.htm

      Romney can NEVER beat Obama

      maybe that’s the plan anyway.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 3:06pm

      tower7femacamp Posted “Romney can NEVER beat Obama. Maybe that’s the plan anyway.”

      I believe it IS the plan. The Democrats WANT Romney to be the candidate opposing Obummer–because they know they can beat him. That is why their pet media media blitz is already cranking up to paint him as “the candidate”. Very soon, you will cease to hear about any others–they will simply be ignored to death by the MSM and all you will hear is “Romney, Romney, Romney”

      We CANNOT let another election be hijacked by this crap, or we and our country are all screwed.

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  • foobear
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 6:02am

    Hmm, Trump’s speech makes a disturbing amount of sense.

    Would probably push Iraq firmly into Iran’s arms if we took their oil though.

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  • the hawk
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 3:26am

    How many black & hispanic votes ya think paul could get 50?
    Ron PAUL WOULD BE great ! sO would the Bengals winning A SUPER bOWL !

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 8:50am

      THE Blaze can delete my posts all they want but
      Romney being a Mormon and the History
      of mormon beliefs on the Black race will be
      all over the news the second he wins the republican nomination.

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    • LibertariansUnite
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 8:55am

      I like how you are worried about the “black vote”.

      Listen, more African Americans (not all of course) have voted democrat for a long time, and to be honest even if Cain was the conservative runner, they probably wouldn’t vote for him either.

      Why? People of a democrat standing often believe the government should assist them (unconstitutionally of course), so, their choice between Obama and Cain would be obvious.

      Instead of putting so much effort into something as arbitrary as race, try utilizing it for voting on principle.

      Ron Paul 2012

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 8:59am

      @LibertariansUnite
      my original post stated that all the blacks have already voted for Obama in 2012
      by absentee voting, but that post was deleted because I linked
      to a site explaining the Mormon history on Gods relationship with the Blacks.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 9:36am

      MANY whites will find Sympathy with Obama if
      Mitts Religion comes up and the left attack the
      past Mormon beliefs about Blacks.

      Just think of the stories they will run with Jon Stewart and Chris mattjews
      “Romney’s Mormon church use to teach Blacks were punished by God ”

      And it’s true. anyone with a computer will look this up in 2 mins
      wam bam 4 more years of Obama
      because most Americans are not prejudice against somebodies race
      but their actions.

      the Left is licking their chops for Romney

      But I must add the fix is probably already in.
      the NWO just likes to give you a reason why things happen
      really they pick and choose and we are helpless to stop them.
      look at the 2010 election, has anything really changed for the better ?

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    • LibertariansUnite
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 12:22pm

      @TOWER

      Nope, barely anything changed with 2010 with how the Patriot Act was handled.

      I am terrible disappointed at the “Tea Party”. Prior to maybe a few months ago I would have argued that the “Tea Party” was alive and well. Now, I realize that it was hijacked by the establishment.

      It makes me sad.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 2:59pm

      Agreed. Who says we have to vote “Republican”, anyhow? The Republicans are not a whole lot better than the Democrats. BOTH these parties have lost the right to expect support from the American people by their own actions. Besides, it is the Republicans’ habit of nominating a tired old RERUN candidate (see John McCain, Mitt Romney, et al) that gave us OBUMMER as POTUS. People were so SICK of being given no choice at all, and nobody they could vote FOR, instead of just voting for the “lesser of two evils” that a lot did not vote at all–and the result was this America-hating Communist A$$ hole in the White House.

      Republicans should not assume they have the automatic support of Conservatives. They assuredly do NOT, if Mitt Romney is the best they can do! And yet, Conservatives simply cannot afford to split their votes in 2012, thereby handing the election to Obummer again. So it’s a real problem, and we need a REAL candidate to address it. Allen West is that candidate. West for POTUS in 2012! I don’t care WHAT party puts him on the ballot, as long as he is there. I would vote for him in a heartbeat!

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    • cous1933
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 9:29pm

      Teaparty Grammy,
      Doesn’t it bother you a little bit that Allen West recently voted to extend the un-Constitutional Patriot Act? I agree that Col. West is a good man but any time a conservative votes for something that is clearly in violation of the Constitution, he loses a little bit of credibility with me. Ron Paul never supports un-Constitutional government mandates.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:55am

      @cous1933, who Posted:
      “Doesn’t it bother you a little bit that Allen West recently voted to extend the un-Constitutional Patriot Act? I agree that Col. West is a good man but any time a conservative votes for something that is clearly in violation of the Constitution, he loses a little bit of credibility with me. Ron Paul never supports un-Constitutional government mandates”

      Yes, it does bother me that he voted for the Patriot act, though I think being an ex-military man may have had something to do with that. But I still think he would make a stronger candidate than Ron Paul. It doesn’t matter how Constitutional Paul is, if he can’t win, or even get on the ballot.

      The Democrats have been choosing the Republican nominees for years–with the help of their media lackeys. Anybody who isn’t a tired old GOP rerun who might have a prayer of beating them simply gets ignored to death by the media, while they promote the tired old GOP retread as “the most viable candidate”, and the next thing you know, the retread is nominated. Not that I want to vote Republican, mind you. I just worry that having a third party candidate int he race might split the vote. Conservatives are their own worst enemies when it comes to fragmenting their votes and letting the liberals elect God knows what, just because they voted enmasse for the same candidate.

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    • cous1933
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:25am

      Teaparty Granny,
      You said
      “Anybody who isn’t a tired old GOP rerun who might have a prayer of beating them simply gets ignored to death by the media, while they promote the tired old GOP retread as “the most viable candidate”, and the next thing you know, the retread is nominated.”
      I agree and Ron Paul is the biggest victim of that, and you seem to be playing along when you say that Ron Paul can’t be elected. That is exactly how they want you to think. If we, as Tea Partiers all get behind the most Constitutional candidate – Ron Paul can get elected, and don’t doubt that he will be a strong leader. He is unshakable on his conservative positions.

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  • DVT
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 3:09am

    Herman Cain for POTUS!

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    • beebacksoon
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 8:51am

      AMEN! Bloggers: If you (or someone you know) haven’t registered to vote, do it now. And vote when ever the polls are open!
      Regardless of your choice of candidate, donate to their campaign, even if it’s $5. They’ll need every penny to fight against a billion!

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    • swampbuck
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 8:59am

      DITTO……. Herman Cain 2012

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  • Rice Water
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 2:10am

    (Munches popcorn. Waits for show)

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  • the hawk
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 2:10am

    Also the Methodist are at least going haft QBAMA ! SOCIAL JUSTICE? iMMAGRATION?
    GAY rIGHTS? kinnda end up back at would JESUS be a socialist? BUT WHAT ABOUT FREE WILL !

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  • the hawk
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 2:05am

    You know Jehovah’s wit, dont vote? That would be 10-17 million votes depending on who you believe !

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  • neverending
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 1:58am

    Rather interesting because I recall it being called the Christian Coalition and now it is religious right – now we can’t even say Christian anymore not that it really matters anymore because actions speak louder then words and I find it hard to believe some of them are true born again christians however I am not the judge there is only one and the only one that matters.

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 3:29pm

      Thats exactly whi I was wondering what Trump was doing there…not trying to judge, but Trump?

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  • randy
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 1:24am

    Romney, seen as the Republicans’ early front-runner, may have the toughest task in wooing religious conservatives. As a Senate candidate and one-term governor in Massachusetts, he supported legalized abortion, gay rights and gun control.

    RINO!!!

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 1:34am

      The only thing I can say about any candidate on the Right is this; they are going to have their hands full trying to take on Mr Obama in ‘12. The tides of hell itself will rise against them from all sides, and all progressives across the board…yet we do need a POTUS who is willing to make the hard choices and the guts to make it happen despite the opposition coming their way.

      May God help us find the person we need, and help us in the restoration of the nation.

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 1:40am

      Snow…you got that right…May God help us…I’m personally sick of these so-called christians flip flopping on their beliefs. What I want to know is why was Trump even there?

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    • LibertariansUnite
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 2:18am

      Huh, that is so convenient.

      I guess good ole non biased blaze forgot to post Ron Paul’s video, well good thing I have the link here.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O_z0vC6rQv4

      Thanks theBlaze for proving your a fox news tool.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 2:32am

      Headline:
      2012 Republican Hopefuls Court Religious Right

      Yeah,……good luck with that guys!

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 2:36am

      @ LibertariansUnite

      Maybe thats because no rational person is considering Paul as a real contender in the race.
      But!….Then again, they did include Trump who is not even running.
      Pretty much a non-story anyway…………………..

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    • LibertariansUnite
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 2:42am

      @RationalMan

      I like how your argument worked for like five seconds, and then you noticed Trump, which derails your entire argument.

      Your right, no “rational man” who desires a police state, or a welfare state, wants Ron Paul as a president, I think it is ironic due to your comment that your joined their rank.

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    • IAMNOTKNOWING
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 3:17am

      Money-money-money-mooooneeeeyyyyy MOOONEEEEEEEYYYYY!!

      Donald’s a little long-winded.

      He’d be more than a little “less-than-polished” politician/diplomatically-wise….

      …. but!, WHO CARES?!!

      Let’s get our financial house in order and REGULATE our relationships around the world.

      We need someone who’ll do some bullying in the opposite direction, toward the bad guys.

      … not toward “We, the American People.”

      Obama…………… YOU’RE FIRED!!!!! And then some!!

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    • cause420
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 3:53am

      Starting to believe GB is a neo-con deceiving us good Christians n2 the control of big Gov’t republicans. It’s a shame to see the blaze pull for mitt Romney, obamas identical match. I thought Glenn was a libertarian at heart? Oh he sold it to the nwo puppet masters for a $50 million contract. A closet progressive who is entirely false? God I pray not…

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 6:18am

      I don’t see one name there which I would trust to properly handle todays sticky foriegn relations problems, the “football”, the economy and my constitutional rights….and NO, the constant remark I hear about them having “more experience than Obama has” does not now and never will sway me. That is like saying it would be appropriate for the lazy parents who gave their car keys to their 6 year old to drive them to dinner and who then crashed the car, to now hand the keys to their “more experienced” 9 year old daughter to drive them home.

      And what the heck is a “scrum” anyway?

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 7:26am

      it time for a revolution
      not just another heads they win Tails we lose election
      between Romney and Obama
      Ron Paul 2012
      http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2011/06/05/june-5th-money-bomb-the-revolution-vs-romneycare/

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 7:33am

      LibertariansUnite Thanks for the Post
      The Religious NeoCons treat Ron Paul
      as the Anti Christ, he may stop the murder
      and their Holy War against their Arab Brothers

      You have heard that it was said, “Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.”
      But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you (Matthew 5:43-44).

      http://dougbrittonbooks.com/onlinebiblestudies-irritationandangermanagement/loveyourenemy-lovingallyourenemies.php

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 7:36am

      Ron Paul was left out but not Trump ???
      Blaze is very Hypocritical Beck runs around talking
      out of his rear about freedom and the constitution
      but undermines the only true candidate for individual rights
      and freedoms
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O_z0vC6rQv4

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    • Ronko
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 7:36am

      Religion might be nice but it’s not doing us any favors in the middle east. It’s going to take a lot more then praying to god in order to defeat Obama. Rommey isn’t the answer, we should write Obama’s reelection ticket automatically if he wins the nomination.

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    • 50BMG
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 8:21am

      While I understand and appreciate the meaning of “RINO”, let’s be honest here: Romney and his ilk are Republicans. The problem is not that he’s a Republican in name only, the problem is that the Republican Party is no longer (if it ever was) a conservative party.

      Political parties have come and gone in American politics. It’s time for the Republican Party to go the way of the Whigs and the No-Nothings, and for a new, truly conservative party to form.

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    • beebacksoon
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 8:44am

      SNOWLEOPARD: You are so right on! Not only that, judges are taking chipping away more and more of our freedom of speech. Pray, Christians, Pray!
      http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/02/prayer-prohibited-at-graduation-ceremony/

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    • swampbuck
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 8:55am

      anyone who will actually listen and watch Dr. Demento AKA Ron Paul for five min knows he has a loose screw or three…

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 9:44am

      I don’t think the issue with Ron Paul are his ideas.
      @RationalContender said, “no rational person is considering Paul as a real contender in the race”
      He did not say Ron Paul was irrational he is just pointing out he won’t be a viable CANDIDATE because of his appearance and demeanor. People want someone that “looks presidential” – yes, we should NOT vote that way, but it is a fact, none-the-less.
      Ron Paul is correct on almost every issue.
      He tosses his constitutional ideals aside when it comes to legislating morality, though!

      We need a CONSITUTIONALLY BOUND government. PERIOD.

      If you want to legislate morality, every single state has the constitutional right to do so.

      The federal government DOES NOT.

      HOW are we supposed to UNITE on so many ideals when we embrace diversity? So long as the federal government keeps overreaching the Consititution and legislating morality, there will always be a huge divide among us. This is NOT in the pervue or jurisdiction of the federal goverenment.

      I won’t force MY moral code on you, and you don’t force YOURS on me!

      It’s this great new invention – I like to call it FREEDOM or LIBERTY.

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    • LibertariansUnite
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:10am

      @SWAMPBUCK

      You are terribly uninformed, and I will leave it at that.

      @TOMFERRARI

      If you vote on principle, and work to get the message out, your doing the best you can do.

      I will agree with you that politics looks more like American Idol during election time, but this logic does not justify not attempting to change the way people think.

      I will constantly fight the battle for ideas, because I actually care about America and Liberty, all of the others who think our election is a popularity contest, you will be the reason why America crumbles.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 2:49pm

      @ Randy, who posted Romney, seen as the Republicans’ early front-runner, may have the toughest task in wooing religious conservatives. As a Senate candidate and one-term governor in Massachusetts, he supported legalized abortion, gay rights and gun control.”

      This country is DOOMED if Conservatives fall to fighting amongst themselves about side issues and split their vote amongst different candidates based upon single- or narrow-issue lines. The POTUS and his crowd are DEPENDING upon us to do just that and allow them to run off with the White House again. We MUST not allow that to happen, if we want to save our country!

      Forget these RINOS. Allen West for POTUS in 2012 – he is the right candidate with the right ideas, a genuine love for his country (what a change from the current POTUS!) and he also happens to be black. He is the ONE candidate who can unquestionably beat Obama and give us a president we can actually SUPPORT.

      Whoever ends up being the candidate, we must get behind him/her and VOTE AS A BLOC, if we are to avoid the reelection of OBummer and stop the destruction of our country.

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    • cous1933
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 4:09pm

      Libertariansunite,
      Thanks for the link and you are so right about how Fox News and the Blaze ignore Ron Paul and thereby convince people that he is not a serious contender. It’s amazing how so many on the Blaze hang on every word Glenn Beck says and yet Glenn himself is a bit hypocritical when he so passionately promotes the Founding Fathers and the Constitution and even considers himself a Libertarian and yet he completely ignores the only candidate who is consistently in line with the Constitution and the Founding Fathers and Libertarian principles. Glenn is much more friendly to potential candidates like Michele Bachmann and Allen West, who both voted for the un-Constitutional Patriot Act and favor a foreign policy that is contradictory to the Constitution and the foreign policy of the Founders.
      Being led by the nose by demagogues is not “rational”. What is rational is understanding the problems facing America and finding (by your own research) the true positions of the candidates that believe they can help fix the problems and supporting the one with the best solutions. Anyone who has taken those steps would surely support Ron Paul because he is not only the most moral, honest, and consistent character in politics but he is also right on every issue.

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