Values Voters Want Pure Conservative, Says Family Research Council Head

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins urged Republican presidential hopefuls on Tuesday not to hold back their conservative passion. What values voters are looking for in a candidate is an affirmation of social conservative values.

“Conservatives win [elections] when they act like conservatives,” Perkins said to a group of journalists at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. He rejected the notion that candidates would lessen their chances of winning if they appealed to social conservatives.

The FRC head spent an hour addressing the values that evangelical Christians look for in a president. He cited a Barna poll from last April, declaring big government issues like healthcare, tax policies, and employment policies to be the top concern for all Americans when choosing a president. Evangelical voters, however, were more likely than their counterparts to list the social issues of poverty and abortion as something that has a “great influence” on their choice of candidate.

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TedRWeiland

Anyone who thinks that voting is going to make a Christian or moral difference over the long run is ignoring the last 224 years of the Constitutional Republic's history. Think about it: have elections helped to make this nation more or less Christian? The inescapable answer is that elections have always produced the lesser of two evils – or is it the evil of two lessers – by which the nation has become less and less Christian with every election. This is because elections are non-biblical. Yahweh has a much better plan by which we end up with the best of the best. You can read about in "Article 2: Executive Usurpation" at http://www.missiontoisrael.org/biblelaw-constitut… or you can listen to a two-part audio series concerning the same, entitled "Elections: Man's or Yahweh's," at http://www.missiontoisrael.org/tapelist.php#T873 and T874.
- Bev
  
  We are having one last push to ask Congressman Allen West to please run for POTUS. So if you would like Congressman West to run, please send him an e-mail at his Washington DC office. Also, you can call him or fax him at his other offices. Please go to: http://www.allenwest2012.ning.com
Winston

Only Christ Jesus (by fulfilling Biblical prophecy) can make a fallen world completely "Christian" and much has to change in this world before that happens. At the current rate of evil running rampant in America (and the world) it is likely a repeat of the Republican Party "elite" will choose the worst candidate as they did with McCain and Bilderberg-supported Sarah Palin, as she was hand-picked by Bilderberger/CFR'r Henry Kissinger. It appears even the current "POPULAR" candidates are replete with anti-Constitution, anti-Rule of Law mentality (Romney's version of Obamacare, and Rick Perry's pro-amnesty for illegal aliens). I wouldn't cast my vote for either one because I do have a moral conscience.
Chris

No – Tony Perkins is telling the gullible what the control freaks want to aid big business.
http://www.orovalleychristianreader.com John J Flanagan

Yes, we can argue about economics, politics, culture, but if one is a Christian fundamentalist living by faith in God and a social conservative then we should support only conservative politicians who reflect our faith and values. No compromises with unbelievers and the wicked.
Bev

We are having one last push to ask Congressman Allen West to please run for POTUS. So if you would like Congressman West to run, please send him an e-mail at his Washington DC office. Also, you can call him or fax him at his other offices. Please go to: http://www.allenwest2012.ning.com
Buck

Values want pure conservatives , people in h—l want ice water . I say good luck to both groups . values are responsibility based and no one will accept responsibilities anymore , it just takes too much character .
http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon

Do you believe you accept responsibilities, Buck? If so, then someone is accepting them, contrary to your statement.

I am also pretty sure most parents would disagree they do not accept responsibilities.
Charles Martel

Absolutely correct, we do want PURE CONSERVATIVES!!!