The Evangelical Vote

6/13/16

A friend of mine posted an article by a guy named Alan Noble about why evangelicals shouldn't vote for Trump or hillary but work to get solid conservatives elected at all lower levels. I wrote bunk, there's no reason why you can't do both so I was asked for my opinion of the article. The article is too long to repost, but here's what I wrote:

Well to try and be brief, everything Noble just accused Trump of he could have said about hillary, only worse. He certainly has drunk the liberal koolaid, because that's exactly how he sounds, regardless of his supposed evangelical credentials.
He would rather see a hillary presidency than a Trump because Trump is deceptive - you mean like the Benghazi coverup, email scandals, you name it, hillary passes another lie every day. Trump is only running for himself - you mean hillary is running for any other reason? Trump lacks principles to lead the country - like after abandoning four Americans in Libya you think hillary has any principles of leadership at all? Trump won't ask God for forgiveness - when has hillary ever asked God for forgiveness? Trump is a racist - based on what information, and how is hillary any different? He boasts about his infidelities - like she boasts about getting a child rapist off and slanders the women her husband has raped or with whom he's had affairs?

The difference between the two is that Trump for all his faults is surrounding himself with some true conservatives - he's already announced he wants Trey Gowdy for Attorney General. Do you think that might be better than Holder or Lynch? By far. We might have somebody who will uphold the law again instead of covering for Democrat criminals.

Noble says if we fold to Trump's coercion we will lose our political voice - what political voice do you think we'll have left if hillary wins? She's anti-Christian, anti Israel, pro Islam, and already vowing to remove the 2nd Amendment. By standing up to the political correctness that is turning our society into the laughing stock of the world, Trump is already giving us our political voice back.

What really exposes Noble is that while he was working on his doctorate at Baylor University, a very liberal Southern Baptist school, he came to the conclusion that "sovereign individualism" is a threat to "human flourishing." In other words, self-government, personal accountability, hard work and accomplishment, the rugged individualism that built our country and the ideals that made America great, are what holds people back. According to Noble, the things that built America are counter productive. That's big government socialism talking.

It looks to me like Noble is a liberal plant disguised as an evangelical to stop Christians from voting for Trump in order to let hillary win. What difference does it make if we keep control of Congress? Conservatives have won the House three times in the last six years and the Senate and accomplished nothing. Four years of hillary combined with the same spineless Republican Congress that hasn't had the guts to stand up to obama and we won't have a country left to worry about. We need somebody in the White House with a vision to help the country, and as flawed as Trump is, he's got a better vision than hillary.