Apr 16, 2007
Slim Pickings For 2008
If someone told you it looked like the liberal candidate was going to win the 2008 presidential race, you would have every
right to think he or she believed Democrats were going to be swept into office. In any prior election in living memory, this would be a true statement, but it is not necessarily the case for this coming election.
The United States presidential election of 2008 is 18 months down the run, and things don't look good for conservatives.
As it stands now, no conservative has a fighting chance to win the party's nomination.
The panic is starting to show in many activist groups that lean to the right. "There is some disillusionment, some
demoralization and a hope that other conservatives jump in the ring. I don't find a sense of excitement about the candidates
at all," said Steve Baldwin, head of the Council for National Policy.
Here is where the top four Republicans stand:
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
Giuliani is best known to the rest of the country for his handling of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade
Center. Giuliani, the leader of the pack in polls, has dismayed some conservatives by supporting abortion rights, gay rights and gun control. He has been married three times and the end of his second marriage was very messy. One Southern Baptist leader has said the Republican presidential hopeful's personal life may be too tempestuous for evangelical voters to tolerate.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney
While governor of Massachusetts, Romney was supportive of social issues like abortion and gay rights. Now that he is gearing up for a primary run, he seems to be singing a more conservative tune. While recently visiting a convention exhibit hall, he was greeted by a man in a dolphin suit labeled "Flip Romney." Conservative Christine might have further pause in supporting a presidential candidate who is Mormon, a member of a faith that describes Jesus as the spirit brother of Lucifer, and asserts that Israel is no longer part of God's eternal plan.
Senator John McCain
McCain has championed campaign finance reform, opposed some tax cuts, and supports Bush's policies in Iraq. In the past, he has attacked conservative religious leaders. During the 2000 race, he called TV preachers Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell “agents of intolerance.”
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
Gingrich is a strong conservative, but he has major baggage. The former Speaker has acknowledged having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair. He acknowledged his tryst in an interview with Christian radio host James Dobson of Focus on the Family. “There are times that I have fallen short of my own standards," he said. "There’s certainly times when I’ve fallen short of God’s standards.”
There are such poor pickings in the Republican party, Hillary Rodham Clinton is starting look appealing in a strange way. Because she is a liberal to the core, I'd never recommend voting for her. One has to laugh to keep from crying when realizing she voted for the war, she's been married to her hubby Bill for 32 years, and she now talks tough on crime.
The only good news is that former Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee has been frozen out of the political race. Record cold temps around the country have cooled Gore fever. Having been crowned the "environmental pope," there was talk of his running for office when 2006 ended with a series of weather records that were blamed on global warming. I just think "Harlot Church" when I see him quoting from every New Age group on the planet, and saying things like, "Each person must be assessed for their conformity to the new global values and spirituality."
With several states moving up their primaries to the early part of 2008, candidates with the largest amount of cash will have a huge advantage over their rivals. By late fall of this year, the field will probably be narrowed down to what-you-see-is-what-you-get.
The President of the United State has long been a key figure in the progression of Bible prophecy. No world leader comes anywhere close to holding the power held by America's commander-in-chief. No wonder so much money is spent during each election on an executive job that only pays $400,000 a year. Some estimate that nominees will raise and spend $1 billion in the race for the White House.
Right now, I see George Bush as place holder because he's so bogged down in the Iraq war mess. The next president will likely try to move in a new direction. Judging by the current slate of candidates, any forward motion might in the direction of the tribulation hour.
-- Todd
End-of-Days Scenarios Part 7
People have vanished all over the world in less time than it takes for light to enter the eye and strike the retina. The chaos is worldwide, but nowhere so profound as within the United States of America. Just a matter of time, however, will prove that the ramifications are geopolitically staggering –for one nation in particular, in addition to America.
The American government, at every level, soon analyzes that every child below–most likely—the teen-age years are gone. Every pregnant woman who was with child, and who remains, has suffered the loss of the baby in her womb. But some other things are discovered that are even more troubling to the officials, the politicos of the nation at every level.
Government is totally disrupted, and the powers-that-be quickly recognize that not even Martial Law is going to be able to reestablish the revenue basis for carrying on government as usual. A huge part of the tax base–a fatally proportionate one--is no longer here to provide the funds to carry on government as usual! Much of the workforce, particularly the most vital, skilled force that was the heart and soul of American industry and fidelity to the good work ethic, disappeared in that stupefying moment.
Carnage alone, caused by the many accidents and other disappearance-engendered problems, will require massive manpower and, in many cases, extraordinary skills to begin restoring order. These people are gone in great numbers.
Europe, on the other hand--while dumbfounded, even extremely worried, over the vanishings—seems to have suffered little infrastructure damage. Economy, well structured by the European Union Parliament, has only minimum glitches in keeping things running. Now, it is bidden by the upper echelon of the American government that is left to advise and assist in helping with things –especially with reestablishing America’s economic base on sound footing.
America’s particularly bad circumstances do not go without notice by others within the nation-states of the world. Russia and China take special notice. They assess how America’s military complex has been affected.
Islamics who want their religion to rule the world are delighted. The great Satan has gotten its deserved punishment from Allah. Although Islamic children, too, have disappeared, the adults who remain in great numbers are still available to make war--and love, in order to replenish the children. The terrorist Islamic organizations are delighted, and immediately see jihad against their enemies –most particularly against the Jews of the world –and Israel.
Israel’s governmental leaders come to two stunning realizations:
1) Their only ally, with the greatest thermonuclear deterrent in the world, is in chaos. The U.S. government officials who remain are doing all within their power just to make deals with the EU in order to –somehow—regain their own power. There is no time, or even facility, to see to Israel’s protection. And,
2) The greatest supporters of Israel and the Jews, in terms of people who supported Israel’s right to exist –their best friends on the planet—are no longer on the planet!
While America’s top leaders who are still around are coming to understand there must be a complete rearrangement of economy and monetary matters, Israel is getting reports of plans for attack by the Arabs, Persians, and other Islamics, who understand what has happened as an opportunity provided them by Allah--an opportunity to once and for all eradicate the hated Jew and the impostor state of Israel.
The Jewish leadership is intact, and the Jews –even those of the Labor Party and the most liberal—know the tiny nation stands alone. Even Mid-East oil exigencies are for the moment off the table for the powers of the west, the industrial nations that must reorganize, not send their troops on ventures into the sands of the Middle East.
What Israel determines to do, it must do quickly. Very quickly. The Israeli leadership realizes one thing beyond all others. They know their blood-vowed enemies will do everything within their power to wipe them –including the Labor Party and other liberal Jews—off Planet Earth. But, there is “the Samson Option,” even the liberal Jews agree. The tiny state that is now in the cross-hairs of practically every Arab state still has perhaps the 3rd or 4th most lethal nuclear weapons force in the world. The Islamic fanatics –the entire world—must be shown that their vow “Never again!” is as strongly in the collective determination of the Jew as in the years immediately following Hitler’s Holocaust.
Next week, God willing, we will unfold the scenario further, with the thought toward setting geopolitical things up for the rise of earth’s last and most terrible tyrant.
--Terry
