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Republican Women Too Smart to Fall for Hillary’s Ruse

Posted by admin On October - 31 - 2007

I found this post from the Americna thinker interesting.

Last week, my hometown paper, The Atlanta Journal & Constitution, ran an online story entitled, “Clinton Pollster Predicts Defection of GOP Women.”Â Depending solely on his own “internal” polling, Mr. Mark Penn – Public Relations guru extraordinaire, and Hillary’s campaign strategist — says that a full 24% of Republican women will punch their ballots for Hillary based on the “emotional” appeal of electing the first woman President.

Clearly, Mr. Penn is either purposefully spinning or indulging in a rather perverted, nearly delusional form of magical thinking.Â Â Â

We Republican women are far, far too smart to fall for Hillary Clinton’s ruse.Â We are not the mindless ninnies that vote with the Special-Interest Express.Â We think for ourselves and vote for the candidate of our choice based on merit.Â We cast our precious votes for the candidate we believe would be the best President, not the one with an “emotional” appeal aimed at our womanhood.

Mr. Mark Penn, I have read, is currently the worldwide CEO of one of the largest public relations firms in the world, Burson-Marsteller.Â He is also the president of his own polling firm, and is best known for his service to Bill Clinton as pollster and political adviser from 1996 through 1999.Â His chief talents seem to be polling and messaging, with special corporate expertise in image, branding and competitive marketing assignments.Â Wow; I’m impressed.Â

So, let me see if I have this straight: Hillary Clinton wants to be the first female President; it has been her lifelong ambition.Â When her popularity as First Lady (enhanced by Penn’s amazing PR prowess) was at its lowest ebb, the Monica-Gate scandal broke wide open.Â What to do?Â Ask Mark, of course; he’ll know.

Choices:

Ditch the scumbag who had finally humiliated her not only in private, not only in Arkansas, not only in the inner circle, but on the front pages of newspapers around the entire globe?Â
Or pretend to be utterly surprised by the devout husband’s infidelity, act positively shocked, wounded to the core, and then magnanimously forgive him in a “Christian” act of self-sacrifice?Â

Mr. Penn, no doubt, was on call around the clock with his crystal ball and gut feel on the whole of the electorate, giving Hillary just what she wanted most.Â Direction on how to play the part for her American audience and turn it to her advantage.

I’m betting it was Mark Penn who offered her his polling expertise, and she has played her scripted part with Bette-Davis acumen.Â Not to mention the side benefit of the You-Owe-Me-Now-Bubba card forever in the hip pocket of her pants suit.

But I think Mr. Penn has been hanging out with Democrat women nearly all of his life and maybe doesn’t know one whit about the female portion of the Republican Party.Â For all of his astounding political prowess, he probably thinks that women who think like Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Janice Crouse, Melanie Morgan, Sandy Rios, et cetera, et cetera, are just very successful aberrations of a sort, and that the rest of us have done absolutely nothing all of our lives but stay home, bake cookies and let other people raise our children while we watch The View.Â (I personally don’t know any woman who has ever seen that show, but I hear they have some really great cat fights, and that occasionally one of the women even makes a coherent statement.)

Most of the women I know have spent a great portion of their lives — in addition to raising fine American citizens — doing volunteer work in our communities trying to put band aids on the myriad of social problems that have become epidemic in the wake of Democrat social policies.Â Unwed motherhood.Â Broken families.Â Absent mothers and fathers.Â Broken government schools.Â Sex education that teaches nothing but how to do a great imitation of an alley cat in heat.Â

These mostly Republican women are still trying to make sense out of a political Party that would so strenuously object to pornography filters on public library computer terminals, while exposing their seven year-olds to lessons in how to put on a condom.Â These “soccer moms” (a phrase coined by Mr. Penn) give hours each week to Crisis Pregnancy Centers that offer actual help to young girls whose boyfriends flunked the condom lessons, but got the alley-cat impersonations down perfectly.Â These conservative women are providing meals to homeless shelters and holiday celebrations and gifts for those in need.Â These women are a veritable army of soldiers on the front lines of social decay, fighting not with the empty rhetoric but with actual labor to right real wrongs.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â

So, when Hillary Rodham Clinton wails about those in our midst who have been “invisible” to Republicans, we women stand, with our mouths agape and our consciousnesses fully raised, in utter incredulity.Â For “the smartest woman in the world,” she comes off as pretty darned dumb or blind.Â You pick.

From where we’re sitting, Mr. Penn, it looks like you and Hillary don’t get out of your little self-created bubble enough.Â We Republican women are Â plum full of emotion every time we see Mrs. Clinton put on yet another female face for the cameras, but it isn’t the kind that you ever want to be with in a dark room alone.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/republican_women_too_smart_to.html

Politics

Worship and the Altar

Posted by admin On October - 17 - 2007

And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other god’s before me. ThouÂ shalt not make unto thee any graven images, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath,or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.Exodus 20:1-6Â God takes worship pretty seriously. Even the manner in which we are to partake in the Lord’s Supper is to be done in reverence. However the church today in America does not take it as seriously as God always has. What you hear today to excuse irreverence and self worship are phrases like ” God doesn’t care how you dress”, and “Whatever it takes to draw the lost into the church”. The first phrase originally had the intent to refrain from judging people who could not afford certain types of clothes to wear to church. The evolution of that phrase has produced an excuse to come to church in beach wear.Worship as intended by God is to be focused on Him and Him alone with no expectation of anything in return. But the church is drawing people in the doors by promising certain types of worship experiences. Worship of God can not include the expectation of an experience. That is looking to receive something and it is idolatrous. It is a focus on yourself and not on God. To many people are catering to the “What have you done for me lately” crowd. But we are to worship God in Spirit and truth and there is not any truth in that kind of worship. Our worship services have turned into attempts at evangelism using the latest psychology that is handed down through the newest fad.Sunday morning worship of God in His house is not an evangelism moment. We are not to focus on our experience, our needs, or the lost. We are to focus on God and God alone. Anything else is idolatry. As a result of this our services are weak and spiritless. Our churches have lost their Holy Ghost power, their influence in a lost and dying world, and are lifeless and dead. All the lighting and power point, all the methods and programs in the world cannot change the state of the church. Psychology has determined our methodology because doxology has replaced theology. The church hires Pastors through elaborate human resource processes rather than gets on her knees and prays and fasts to determine who God has sent to the church.The alters in our churches have become a place of disdain. It is a place of embarrassment and a place to be avoided. It is looked at as a place only for lost people and not for the Saints. But the worship service is for the saints and not for the lost. As is the alter. The emptiness of our alters are a sign of the spiritual condition of our churches. And our spirits are just as dry and empty as our alters are. Our worship is exposed by the amount of time we spend on our knees.I see revival meeting after revival meeting but I have never seen an actual revival of men under the power of the Holy Ghost. The church sets meeting dates, makes all kinds of plans, invites speakers and singers, and everyone goes home just as they came. Unchanged. I am firmly convinced that we cannot schedule a revival of God. How arrogant are we to impose a schedule on God. What the church needs to do is to pray for revival and wait on Gods to bring it just as the disciples did in Acts 2. There are many men who call themselves preachers. There are many groups who call themselves churches. Heaven Help us to know the difference between a church and a crowd.

Doctrines

Feeding the Sheep & Counting the Sheep, Success & Service

Posted by admin On October - 16 - 2007

We live in a climate of success today that has permeated the church to its marrow. We have grabbed a hold of a theology that suggests that the move of God can always be seen, counted, & measured. We prop up our theology with phrases like ” If you are serving God faithfully as a Pastor the church will always grow in number.” “That is just the end result of faithful service.”Exodus 13:19

And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry my bones away hence with you.

No one knows the name of the individuals or individual who carried those bones. And for forty years they traveled with those bones through the wilderness. An obscure service to say the least. How many men and women serve in our churches from day to day and from week to week with no recognition, no observation, and no fruit except a clean bathroom or a vacuumed sanctuary? How many Pastors have preached faithfully under the anointed Holy Ghost power year after year with little to no fruit except that he was obedient and faithful.

No one could see what God was doing when Rome conquered the world. But as a result of their rule the world was made safer to travel and share the gospel. Where is the success of all the Martyrs of God who was called by God to die at the hands of the enemy? Where is the success of Crystal Bernard who looked down the barrel of a gun in the library of Columbine High School and said,”Yes, Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.” Where is the success of the weeping prophet who never had one convert?

There are two kinds of ministries, success drive ministries which focus on numbers. They want to see, count it, report it and brag on it. Then there is the service driven ministry. They want to serve God because they love Him even if they see no numbers that can be counted, reported, and bragged about.

Christ stood on the beach one day and told Peter to feed His sheep. This was a mandate from Christ to a Pastor. Paul wrote to a young Pastor to “Preach the Word!” No where in scripture is success driven ministry even elluded to. But as Pastors we are called to feed Christ’s sheep. I had to resign a position of youth pastor of a small church in central Florida because the membership had become increasingly hostile toward me. At the time of my arrival we had 12 -20 youth who came. On the best day the youth out numbered the adults. After several months of serving I was asked why I was not drawing more children into the program. At the earliest point of my arrival to that small country church it became quite apparent that the youth who was already attending had no heart for God. As the Associate Pastor with responsibilities over the youth my heart was broken over the clear lack of focus on God that prevailed throughtout the church. But my focus was on the youth. So I determined to spend my focus on their spiritual well being and focus less on bringing more into the church like them.

The church became increasingly hostile and distant from me and my family as I endeavored to feed Christ’s sheep. They wanted numbers that could be counted, reported, and bragged on. Since I was not ready to give them that the relationship became strained. I believe sometimes the focus on numbers is a means to ease our conscience about our poor relationship with God. Numbers are easy to get when you cater to the lost with gimmics, entertainment, and a watered down gospel that widens the path to life in a way that Christ will never allow. I am not against reporting on what God is doing. However the motive behind that reporting makes all the difference in the world.

Pastors are we feeding Christ’s sheep or are we just counting them?