Conservative Christians -- who would you vote for?

I'm afraid you've completely missed the point of the thread.

 

There, see? Now you've correctly stated my position, or at least correctly repeated the question. We've asked half the question in your statement above, but the second half, "Why would a Christian not vote for a candidate that is not a Christian" still needs some attention.

 

I agree with this. Why couldn't a christian conservative vote for a candidate who wasn't christian?

 

Any number of reasons. Mostly because they have incompatible views on such things as abortion and homosexual "marriage." You would also have to define 'Christian' because there would be considerably disagreement over such things as say, whether a Mormon is a Christian for example. Just some of the reasons I find the OP's question a little vague.

 

I'm a conservative christian... Let's say I didn't agree with a candidate on one or two positions... Does that mean I couldn't or wouldn't vote for him/her? No.

Absolutely not. It's almost impossible to vote for a candidate that matches your beliefs perfectly.

 

Does a total absence of your religious beliefs count as one or two positions that don't agree with you?

 

There is a point?

 

This assumes that all atheists are pro-choice and support gay marriage.

Well, for that matter then we also have to define conservative. The question I'm really asking here -- which I thought would be fairly obvious -- is what is more important to a conservative Christian: faith or policy? In this hypothetical exercise, you can't have both.

 

Nobody is forcing you to participate.

 

You ask for opinions from Conservative Christians... I gave you mine. You responded with:

Maybe you should've told us what you want us to say. There's obviously a motive behind your question.

 

The opinion you shared with the forum had no relevance to the topic.

 

"W" was labeled a conservative and said he would be carried into the White House via conservative evangelicals. Then when he got into office he spent like a drunken sailor, ignored illegal immigration, and created one of the biggest entitlements since LBJ. Oh yea, and he waged war across the globe to boot.

Does that make him a conservative? Ron Paul is much more a conservative than "W". He would nix the spending, that is for sure. In fact, any other of these baffoons in the GOP will no doubt continue spending deficits like Obama is doing, only it will be a few billion dollars less so that they can call themself a "conservative" I suppose.

About the only conservative thing about "W" that I know of is that he lowered taxes and opposed abortion. But then, even the democrats embraced his low taxes and as we all know the whole abortion thing never changed, so who really cares?

 

AGREED. Bush was no conservative. The closest description I can come up with is authoritarian corporatist theocrat. He was, after all, the decider.

For sure. They have to pay back those campaign contributions.

 

Hmm. No mention on the candidate's position on abortion. Apparently economics is more important than human life.

 

I guess I grow weary of both parties trying to distinguish themselves on social issue like abortion and gay marriage when everything else they do is the same. Well guess what, I think both parties really support gay marriage and abortion no matter what else they may spew otherwise. Simply put, abortion iis big money and both parties like big money pouring into government via abortion lobbyists. Unfortunabely, there is no money in defending the rights of the unborn, neither can they cast a vote. In other words, because the unborn cannot vote or give these *********s money they don't really exist in their collective minds.