|| By FITSNEWS || A 2016 presidential survey of ninety-four leading evangelicals published by World Magazine found U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida garnering the most support.
Rubio drew 18 votes (19.15 percent of ballots cast) – outdistancing former Florida governor Jeb Bush (14 votes – 14.89 percent), Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas (13 votes – 13.83 percent apiece) and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina (9 votes – 9.57 percent).
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump received three votes.
The results (.pdf here) are interesting in that evangelical leaders didn’t flock to candidates like Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum – who have built their political careers on Bible thumping.
Huckabee received only four votes in the survey, while Santorum received none.
And while we’d like to conclude this means evangelical leaders are catching on, their support for a candidate like Rubio isn’t really indicative of that. If anything, it just means they’ve fallen prey to a different kind of panderer.
Seriously … isn’t their a commandment against “bearing false witness?”
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politicians who love god.. what a concept. All it means is, they’re too stupid to make the grade as a televangelist.
Politics is the next most profitable job after televangelism… and you can still drink and go to strip clubs, get divorced a few times, fuck whoever you want, never work on the weekends – actually, hardly ever actually even go to work… and still keep your job…
All it means is, they’re too stupid to make the grade as a televangelist.
-Max
Or like you said enjoy their weekends off.
It’s not like they’d be ashamed to stump for money from the poor, saying “it’s for *GOD*!”
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With that minister haircut you would think they would be scared of more competition.
Too bad evangelicals can’t get anyone elected on a national level. Actually, not ‘too bad’…thank god ;-)
I’m surprised they don’t have qualms about someone who’s toyed with the Catholic, Baptist and Mormon religions, depending on where he was geographically and in his political career.
Funny how times change — often along with political expediency. Rubio is a Roman Catholic who attends Baptist services (thereby covering several political bases). In not so distant times past, Protestant evangelical Christians in the south despised Catholics. Bob Jones called Pope John Paul II the “Anti-Christ” and said the Catholic Church was the “Mother of Harlots.” Jones was a pal of Ian Paisley — the Northern Irish Protestant terrorist leader. Pat Robertson said the Haitians had embraced the devil by being Catholic. Southern evangelicals used to hate Jews too (Christ-Killers), now they love them, especially Bibi and GOP neo-cons carrying water for Israel.
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Evangelical leaders go crazy for the crisp suit, white shirt, tie leash, clean face, combed hair, confident, religious sound bites and smiling, backstabbing, grifting scum.