{"id":204,"date":"2007-02-12T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/02\/conservatives-searching.html"},"modified":"2007-02-12T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T13:25:00","slug":"conservatives-searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/02\/conservatives-searching.html","title":{"rendered":"A coming GOP religious war?"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC News’ Sonya Crawford reported over the weekend<\/a> on how hard it was for conservatives to find a candidate for 2008:<\/p>\n

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And as conservatives consider their presidential hopefuls, they’re concerned. None of their frontrunners \u2014 former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney \u2014 are true, purebred conservatives. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The problem is even greater for Christian conservatives who look at polls and see the men who most closely champion their values – Sen. Brownback and Gov. Huckabee – with 1% support nationwide.<\/p>\n

Crawford concludes, “With President Bush, conservatives, more or less, knew who they were getting. This time around, they may have to settle for the man who can win.”<\/p>\n

A religious war within the GOP is on the horizon where Christian conservative activists begin pounding the table with more and more passion insisting that Jesus wouldn’t support someone like McCain\/Giuliani\/Romney and where Jesus’ public identity will once again be defined by divisive politics and culture war policies that he never chose.
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