Comments on: Sorry, Michael, but you’re telling porkies

By: Hellmut

Hellmut — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:22:38 +0000

John C. is right that the evangelical vote is more essential to the Republican coalition than Mormons because there are so many more of them than us.

On the other hand, without the Mormon vote Republicans cannot carry swing states such as Arizona and Nevada. A careful voter analysis could probably identify a couple of other states that would become unwinable to Republican candidates without overwhelming support from Mormon voters: New Mexico and Colorado, for example, and may be even states such as Florida or Ohio.

OK, the last two examples are stretching it but the fact remains that the Mormon vote is essential to the coalition of alienated white males that constitutes the Republican party’s base.

By: Andres

Andres — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:40:20 +0000

Today liberal blogger Juan Cole came out against Huck’s comment. He even posted the full text of an apologetic article that explains the “Jesus brother of Satan” idea – this has got to be a first for the liberal blogosphere…

see link here:

http://www.juancole.com/2007/12/ayatollah-huckabees-fatwa.html#comments

By: kurt

kurt — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:16:21 +0000

Seriously though, is “Mormons believe Jesus and Satan are brothers” evangelical code for “Mormons are Satanists?” If it is, would Huckabee’s comment sound as innocent if he came right out and said “is it true Mormons worship Lucifer?”?

By: kurt

kurt — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:04:12 +0000

Absolutely not! I’m an Ozzie purist. And I like Van Halen – not Van Haggar. We should at least get that doctrine clear before anyone tries to join my new church.

By: AH

AH — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:50:43 +0000

Now that I know I’m a Satanist, I can skip sacrament meeting on Sunday and just stay home and listen to my old Black Sabbath albums.

Here’s the important question though, would that include the ‘Dio’ years when he was fronting Sabs?

By: kurt

kurt — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:24:14 +0000

“However, for Evangelicals who believe that Jesus is co-eternal and consubstantial with the Father, and we’re all just Creatures, saying that Satan is Jesus’ brother is almost equivalent to saying “Mormons believe that Satan is a deity!””

I always wondered why anti-Mormons got their panties in such a knot about the Jesus-brother thing. I guess I never realized this was just a back handed way of calling us Devil-worshipers.

Now that I know I’m a Satanist, I can skip sacrament meeting on Sunday and just stay home and listen to my old Black Sabbath albums.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:47:25 +0000

“only like minded people welcome here?”

I can’t stop laughing long enough to type a coherent response.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:09:50 +0000

At least you have to admire his dedication – ok, even I don’t believe that.

By: Margaret Young

Margaret Young — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:06:12 +0000

Did somebody leave the “Welcome trolls” sign up?

By: Steve Evans

Steve Evans — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:39:22 +0000

gst, others can provide you better advice than I, but I’d suggest that you ease into it.