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God's Candidates Failing: Could the Almighty Dollar Be More Powerful Than the Almighty?

Posted: 01/08/12 05:31 PM ET

God, we were led to believe, spoke to Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and, yes, even serial liar and philanderer Newt Gingrich, and told each of them to run for President of the United States. God's ways are, of course, mysterious, so it was never adequately explained why he chose four to go for it, rather than the one he told Pat Robertson was going to win the presidency anyhow.

Oddly, despite their having the almighty on their side, none of them is running away with the race. Indeed, one is out, two are struggling and the fourth is perhaps having his day in the sun.

Mitt Romney, the frontrunner, has wielded a different weapon -- the almighty dollar. He has unsheathed the almighty dollars his so-called independent Super-PAC has accumulated to smite anyone who raises his head above water to challenge him.

Of course, true to his character, Romney has borne false witness about his Super PAC, claiming it is truly independent of him. And, of course, true to character Newtie has claimed that the substance of Romney's ads are fraudulent -- whereas, in fact, they are all true and in context, demonstrating that Romney has the capacity to tell the truth, just not about himself.

The person other than himself that Romney will never be honest about is President Obama. That, of course, is to be expected. After all, he IS a Republican (isn't he, Rick?) While the almighty may disapprove and consign Mitt to "the other place" for his lies, he has enough of those almighty dollars to make people believe the most outrageous of his lies.

God's messengers on earth, or at least his political messengers, are going to make a judgment god himself would not -- choosing the one Pat Robertson already knows will win to be the sole bearer of the torch, asking (telling?) the others to drop out. It will be interesting to watch how obedient god's servants are to his political surrogates.

Gingrich, who never acted terribly concerned about what god prescribed anyhow, is likely to ignore god's surrogates because his Super-PAC just received $5M from casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who uses the almighty dollars he makes from gambling to obey the almighty's supposed biblical commands for Jews to occupy the entire West Bank and Gaza, and foment opposition to a two-state solution. How does Newt's use of gambling money square with claims about his "redemption"? Is Ralph Reed listening?

All of this comes from the party that swears obedience to the Founders -- who clearly expected both the absence of the almighty and the almighty dollar from determining political outcomes.

Lord knows, the Founders are probably spinning in their graves, even faster than almighty dollars spin someone's record or character.

 

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God, we were led to believe, spoke to Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and, yes, even serial liar and philanderer Newt Gingrich, and told each of them to run for President of the United Sta...
God, we were led to believe, spoke to Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and, yes, even serial liar and philanderer Newt Gingrich, and told each of them to run for President of the United Sta...
 
 
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HUFFPOST COMMUNITY MODERATOR
dawlishgal
09:42 AM on 02/14/2012
It used to be that saying that one speaks to God and God gave specific (always encouraging) answers got people a psychiatric diagnosis. It's interesting that God (apparently) never tells these manipulative bozos to NOT RUN. There is a woderful song in'" Unsinkable Molly Brown" that says something like, "Your prayers were answered' the answer was 'NO.'" What are we supposed to think of a God who endorses buffoons by telling them to run for the important and demandig job of leading the most powerful country in the world. If we believe God has involved himself (or herself) in our nasty selfserving politics, , then we had better start daily singling of "God Bless American" because we are going to really need whatever blessings we can. If we believed these people about what God told them to do, and then they fizzled like wet firecrackers (the way they always seem to do) what does this tell us about God? That he has a sense of humor? Or that he is not responsible fot those who put God's name on their own fantasies of political power?
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Bibulus
On my way back from Hawaii with the long-form bio
02:10 PM on 01/09/2012
...proof positive that god a wicked sense of humor.
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HUFFPOST COMMUNITY MODERATOR
dawlishgal
09:44 AM on 02/14/2012
I posted first and then read this....YUP. God gave me a brain that tells me that the people who calim that God told them to run are basically breaking the commandment about taking God's name in vain
12:42 PM on 01/09/2012
I was under the impression that if regular folk started yammering about God "talking" to them, or acting upon the direct messages they said God left them, they would be put on an involuntary 72 hour hold in the psych ward. And then heavily medicated. Why are these political people given an exemption from what we would call crazy in our general population?
12:08 PM on 01/09/2012
God has got to stop telling people to run for president.people are going to stop trusting his divine wisdom. BTW,isn't he the same God who gave the crappiest stretch of land in the Middle East to His chosen people. I think He just enjoys playing with some people's heads.
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Terri Skau
the moon rises as the sun sets
12:08 PM on 01/09/2012
The almighty dollar is there "Golden Calf" They worship it everyday....
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HUFFPOST COMMUNITY MODERATOR
iskra
Natural enemy of sharks and tro//s
11:52 AM on 01/09/2012
She spoke to them and told them to run, not to have them win, but to teach them humility.
HUFFPOST SUPER USER
schaeboy
Created by God as a gay man.
11:40 AM on 01/09/2012
God is setting the record straight. Those are not HIS candidates.
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Rogo99
Has the world changed, or have I changed?
11:18 AM on 01/09/2012
Dollars are real, but sometimes inconceivable.
God is conceivable, but definitely not real.
nothingchanges
too soon old, too late smart
10:04 AM on 01/09/2012
"God, we were led to believe, spoke to Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and, yes, even serial liar and philanderer Newt Gingrich, and told each of them to run for President of the United States."

Don't forget Herman Cain............"God told me to run.........I was like Moses".

The conclusion is obvious.

Either most (or all) of these candidates are lying...............or God is.

Who can we believe?

Boy.....THAT's a TOUGH ONE......isn't it?

What to do,

What to do,
.

What DOO DOO...............................
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salamanca1
They're good eatin', but you need a lot of 'em
12:50 PM on 01/09/2012
I think all of the Republican candidates and Pat Robertson, are victims of Loki, the trickster.
09:53 AM on 01/09/2012
seeing how god supsosadly chose Bush as well i wouldnt put much thought into his thoughts on who should be president
09:32 AM on 01/09/2012
God has nothing to do with it. Elections in America are decided by who has the most money to spend smearing their opponent and this applies to both corrupt parties. Both Romney and Obama will severely disappoint their followers once they have been elected based on promises they have no intention of keeping.
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lakabux
Imagine...
02:22 PM on 01/09/2012
"God has nothing to do with it"
...Ya think?
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Freenation
08:55 AM on 01/09/2012
***APPLAUSE***

Don't be surprised post election when someone asks Robertson, was this guy the one God told you about? His answer would be: told ya
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den1953
The best politicians are for free!
09:30 AM on 01/09/2012
If you want to know Robertson's answer send him a 100 dollar donation he'll leave you in the dark!
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Techboy308
the cake is a lie
10:42 AM on 01/09/2012
Particularly if Obama is reelected. I can't wait to hear the spin he puts on that!
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Ali Nazifpour
08:53 AM on 01/09/2012
May one day a politician comes along who answers to the call of the reason, rather than god or dollar or country.
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ThatsTheTheWayItIs
religion, ideology, partisanship are delusional
08:48 AM on 01/09/2012
It is an essential part of Mormonism to believe that God talks to each of us. And particularly to the Mormon Ruling Council, they are presumed to have a direct line, more so than the Pope. That belief is why there are so many Mormon diverging sects. Their separate leaders believe God is talking to them, read "Under the Banner of Heaven". __ I must disagree, Romney is the major God candidate, but most Mormons aren't overt evangelicals except for their two-year stint. They've learned it turns others off, Baptists haven't figured that out yet.
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Ulalume s Ague
Fighting for the Poe People
11:56 AM on 01/09/2012
The "major God candidate"? Are there lesser god candidates? So God is a mormon, huh? A whole bunch of other people might--and I may be going out on a limb here-- disagree with you about that. This is the wondeful thing about religion-- they always bifurcate and never, ever coalesce. That says something.
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Randysbabe
All you need is love...
08:42 AM on 01/09/2012
Just because the Almighty supposedly told these candidates to run for president, it doesn't mean it was for the reason they wanted. During the 2008 election cycle and the current one, it has become more and more obvious to the American people that these politicians are complete hypocrites who will say anything to get elected. Maybe that's the point - exposing what frauds these people really are. Maybe all of these weak candidates were 'called' by God to make our choice in 2012 a little easier... What's the saying? The Lord works in mysterious ways...