South Carolina Evangelicals Split, Frustrated

The State :

More than two-thirds of South Carolina’s evangelical voters do not want Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney to become the GOP’s nominee for president, according to a new poll from Monmouth University. But they cannot decide who they want instead.

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Comments

[StopMakingSense2]

02:21 PM on 01/18/2012

That's the best possible outcome for America! They should overthrow some African nation no one cares about and create the theocracy they long for instead of tormenting the rest of us with their superstitious nonsense.

[Pinkensteve]

02:15 PM on 01/18/2012

Wait til they find out that Jesus wouldn't vote Republican.

[Sure we did]

01:41 PM on 01/18/2012

"Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over."

Emo Phillips

[SouthOfProgress]

12:11 PM on 01/18/2012

Evangelicals feeling frustrated...I'm shocked.
Life is always frustrating when you try to adhere to contradictory and just plain inhuman religious philosophies.
Even more frustrating when you expect others to just accept your extremist views.

I think I know the perfect candidate-
HeyZeus of Nazarith- He's Jewish but he's got potential.

[MsEngineer]

12:10 PM on 01/18/2012

I am quite amazed by this. Hasn't God personally told one of the candidates to run? Shouldn't God also tell the voters who to vote for? God needs to be more consistant.

[fred jonze 56271]

11:20 PM on 01/18/2012

god has been known to flip-flop

ask abraham

[shamumbo]

11:46 AM on 01/18/2012

Are they frustrated that Obama is a truer Christian than they are?

[celtic08]

01:53 PM on 01/18/2012

F&F!!

[ETBgood]

11:26 AM on 01/18/2012

Give it up. Evangelicals have lobbied, funded and supported candidates that have never given them what they wanted and they will never get it. If the candidates they have supported since Roe/Wade haven't been successful by this time they are not going to be.

They won't get it from Romney and Santorum can't win. They are stuck again. It is no one's fault but their own base and the "tea party", which also hasn't accomplished anything with being added into Congress as more repetition of GOP no votes on everything.

The GOP is split, evangelicals are split, the "tea party" is fractured, and while Ron Paul talks two games, he claims to side with "right to life" while alternately speaking about increased freedoms, getting the government "out of the bedroom" and states rights. Ron Paul would turn over everything personal to be decided by the states only to find that the majority of states would keep abortion rights and approve gay marriage. What will evangelicals do then? In Ron Paul's world these issues would never be part of the federal government so evangelicals could never lobby to legislate morality.

[celtic08]

01:55 PM on 01/18/2012

f&f!

[den1953]

11:17 AM on 01/18/2012

Funny thing happened to the Evangelicals on the way to the voting booths they are getting thrown under the GOP bus, same as 2004 maybe by the general election they can morph again from the Tea Party to the Don't pee on my Party?

[SkelDaddy]

11:45 AM on 01/18/2012

Or the Pity Party.

[SkelDaddy]

11:01 AM on 01/18/2012

Right wing evangelicalists need to stay out of politics. The damage they do to the nation cannot be calculated.

[Canary503]

10:52 AM on 01/18/2012

It's a good day for America any time evangelicals are frustrated.

[Linda from Deerfield]

10:43 AM on 01/18/2012

That is a tough position -- all I can think of to suggest is maybe a write-in campaign for that good old Southern boy, Bill Clinton.

[schrodster]

10:38 AM on 01/18/2012

Party of Gop works in mysterious ways.