I feel as if I shouldn't be stepping in here, so I will tread lightly. I don't like "group" identities and think it waters down individuals and hence their rights. We don't get our rights because we're Christians, Gun Owners, Black, or Gay. We were given our rights because we are all individuals, created by God and able to take part in the "Social Contract".
I despise blocks of people (even Evangelicals), who are ignorant and so band together to protect their ignorance. I find that a lot of the convincing I must do to people belong and identify themselves as "Christians", and then without regard to what that term entails, they tell me that if I don't vote for X candidate, I am certainly putting Hillary in the White House and she's no Christian you know...
Well- no I don't know that. I know many of the candidates with maybe three exceptions supported and still support Abortion rights. I personally don't believe that is a Christian position. I similarly don't like that they try to win arguements and impose their views on the nation without finding a good secular arguement. Abortion shouldn't be banned because it is a sin, abortion should be banned because our most fundamental right is a right to life.
So- I think especially with a Southern Baptist minister (don't flame me, I grew up with them and half the fam is SB), he has a ways to go before I jump on the bandwagon with him. So far, he has done a remarkable job. Still I don't think he's ever really studied the Constitution, though perhaps he has.
I believe that if we don't select a president who will get us closer to Constitutional Governance, we are all in a world of hurt. They want to fix healthcare by focusing on health care and corporations. They want to fix the price of oil by hammering big oil, or big Arabs, or some other boogieman.
So far, only one candidate has fairly explained why oil costs more, why medicine and education cost more and why jobs are going overseas. Monetary policy as dictated by the constitution would go a long, long, way to fixing national problems, but only one candidate wants to fix the problem, not the blame.
I am looking forward to spreading the ideas. No- I think he can't win. That doesn't mean I won't give him every chance by voting for him and sending him money. Still, right now there's a glaring population of tens of millions of supporters, many who came over from the Democrats to support this man's ideas. Let me be clear, there is no position of Ron Paul's that is liberal. You can't point one out to me. Hence, there are many hundreds of thousands of harvestable votes out there for the Republican candidate who takes notice of the ideas, learns them, embraces them and moves our way. Otherwise, these guys will move back to the Democrats and Libertarian parties, and the Republican party will fade away because they forgot what limited government, individual rights, and sound fiscal policies were.
That's my 2 cents.