COMMENTARY | While many might not be willing to admit it, the death of the GOP will come from pandering to the far-right evangelical Christian community. Those who claim to have given their lives over to Jesus have no place in politics, and therefore, no stake in American politics. Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are going after the wrong voter community. They would've been wise to have pursued the "undecided" vote instead.
This is the age of the Internet, where information can be spread faster than any politician can backpedal. This is the age of the common man having the ability to show what any hopeful candidate actually says rather than get away with telling people what they meant.
In an Associated Press report, Gingrich is spending his time in South Carolina explaining what he meant by his racist remarks about President Barack Obama being a "food stamp president." He showed guts in his campaign at first. But his overconfidence led him to believe a majority of Americans agreed with his possibly racist remarks and now he's spending his time in South Carolina explaining what he meant, instead of campaigning.
Romney's paying the price for expecting anyone non-Mormon to be accepting of his particular flavor of faith. In an AFP report, it appears evangelical Christendom is throwing their support behind Santorum. Perhaps it's out of a lack of understanding of Mormonism, but most evangelical Christians see Mormonism as more of a cult than their cult.
As for Santorum, he has absolutely no place being in modern politics. According to the instructions in the King James Bible, he is to have no love for anything of this world, and thereby either decries his own faith, or tries to lay claim over a world which he is not to be a part of.
What these three politicians fail to realize is that, in trying to pander to the Christian right wing of American politics, they're forsaking all of the other voters who choose to live here in the real world, where a person's private religious beliefs have no say in how any vote should go.
No, Gingrich, Santorum and Romney have all erred in trying to appeal to religion in America, and in forsaking the rest of the voters whose issues are a bit more expansive than the demands of any faith.
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