I'm not sure what Carly Fiorina was doing getting herself booked on The View. I mean, yeah, back in 2000 George W. Bush appeared on Oprah and even got in a peck on her cheek, I guess, but this is the show where the enemy is like a living scratching post for a feral cat colony. For Bill Clinton they'd have all been on their knees, eyes closed and mouths open, waiting. When Barack Obama came by, they all sat on a couch together with O in the middle while they all took turns saying a variation of, "Omigawd, he looks just like the idol in my home shrine!" But a Republican woman? Someone they see as less authentically female than Bruce Jenner? What was she thinking?
So of course "Guinan" herself had to indulge in her compulsive Christophobia:
“You’re running, – I assume you’re a person who is very pro-life. Are you going to run as a person who’s going to govern for everyone, or are you running on your Christian beliefs?
Miss Fiorina fielded the obnoxiously bigoted query adequately, but as besieged Republicans usually do, she missed an el primo opportunity to pin the El Aurian bartender down on her anti-religious premise. Such as the fiction of "governing for everybody," since no POTUS ever has done that (with the exception of George Washington, and even he didn't do so for long) or ever will, because the very notion implies unanimous support. Or the false opposition between governing "for everybody" and still living out her "Christian beliefs". Why didn't Miss Fiorina counter that "governing for everybody" INCLUDES governing for Christians, and since the Democrat Party is militantly anti-Christian, Republicans are evangelicals' only chance of having somebody who will represent them and looking out of their interests? Or does "Guinan" believe that Christians shouldn't be represented, and that Miss Fiorina should keep her Christian beliefs (and I don't know if she's a believer or not, but work with me here) in the "closet," or actively deny them in order to "qualify" for high elective office? Because all of the above is rather nakedly underlying that one question. One that would never be asked of a Democrat, and one that was never asked of Barack Obama in 2008 for fear of being thrown in a fiery media furnace. "Barack Obama is a practicing Christian" was the only permissible answer, which kind of made sense, since he's never gotten it right and the media all knew he wasn't but they loved to make Republicans squirm with it.
I can hardly wait to see Ted Cruz's appearance on the The View. They should put that episode on pay-per-view.
But the anti-Christian interrogation of the lone woman in the 2016 GOP field by four fembots with "views not so diffwent" is, sad to say, symptomatic of the larger move to drive Jesus's followers out of the culture, public life, and ultimately out of the country altogether:
A new report asks why Republican candidates for president keep promoting Christianity in their campaigns if the overall United States population of Christians is reportedly on the decline.
"On the decline," Pew says. And technically that's true. But....
A recent Pew Research Center survey said the number of Christians in America dropped from 78.4% of the overall population to 70.6% from 2007 to 2014, a change of nearly 8%.
During that same period, the number of Americans unaffiliated with any religion increased nearly seven percentage points to 22.8%.
Understanding that the number of ACTUAL Christians is a lot less than the number of PROFESSING Christians, but using Pew's (Get it? Pew's, pew? C'mon, I just did....) numbers for the sake of discussion, Christian dominance shrank from 6-1 to 3.5-1. So Christian numerical dominance is nominally less crushing, and on those grounds the Republican presidential field should embrace atheism? Seems to me like Pew and USA Today are being a smidge premature.
They're also making the mistake the Left always makes when they win a national election: That that means they've won the two-century plus national "debate" for good, the GOP and conservatives and Christians are all gone, dead, extinct, and we're all Democrats and socialists and atheists and homosexuals and good Muslims, etc., etc. etc. now and forever, worlds without end, hallelujah amen. The national pendulum can only swing in one direction - "forward".
Heck, there weren't supposed to be an Christians anymore after Barack Obama's ascension, when he took off that mask and became the first gay Muslim president....anywhere....ever. Well, okay, other than the late Yassir Arafat, but nobody knew his personal secrets until after he was dead.
And yet, here we are, bobbing to the top of the tank yet again, disturbing "Guinan's" "centeredness" or whatever El Aurians call their navel-gazing. And assuming The Age Of The One can ever be put in the national rear-view mirror, that eight-point decline in the "Christian" portion of the American population may just slow down, stop, and even reverse itself, instead of just dwindling into negative integers, as leftwingnuts so fervently hope and, um, "pray" for.
And you know what? They all know it. It's part of their overall bitter disillusionment that Barack Obama hasn't been as "messianic," hasn't been as "fundamentally transformative" as they had expected, which appears to have included shipping off all us snake-handlers to the Alaska Gulag by now. Which, come to think of it, I'm surprised we haven't been, too. Although not disappointed.
And that's why they're so angry, why they are giving free vent and reign to their hatreds, openly muzzling and threatening and persecuting Christians across the country, and why they are now openly declaring that Christians should not be represented at any level of government and "other-ing" any pol that dares to do so right along with the constituents whose votes they seek.
A USA Today story questions why GOP candidates are pushing so hard to both earn the Christian vote and showcase their Christian faith.
Perhaps, USA Today, because they want to be on the....right side of history.
That national pendulum is swinging back. Better duck while you still can.
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