Pat Buchanan: Evangelicals Are Now Singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers' to Stop Same-Sex Marriage
Syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan on Friday offered the harshest analysis to date on Barack Obama's flipflop regarding same-sex marriage this week.
"Social conservatives and the Evangelicals...are now singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers' and riding to the sound of the guns on this issue," Buchanan said on PBS's McLaughlin Group. "I think he’s put his presidency in peril" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
PAT BUCHANAN: Well, the congressional races, rural Democrats, conservative Democrats and others - take Claire McCaskill, take John Tester in Montana, take Tim Kaine in Virginia – will have to run away from the platform, John. I don’t know that he’s going to do that, but what Barack Obama has done is put his presidency at real risk. He has instantly solved the biggest problem Mitt Romney had which is how to energize and rally the social conservatives and the Evangelicals. They are now singing “Onward Christian Soldiers” and riding to the sound of the guns on this issue, John.
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, HOST: So Romney has it?
BUCHANAN: Well, they’re really out and they’re energized John, but take a look what happened. North Carolina, Obama carried it. 61 percent of the vote in a record primary turnout voted for a ban on gay marriage and civil unions.
MCLAUGHLIN: This past week.
BUCHANAN: Yeah. You got Iowa out there, okay? Judges imposed it on Iowa, the Iowa voters threw the judges out. You got 30 states, John, who, and the point of it is, it’s going to rally Obama’s base, there’s no doubt about it. The gay rights groups and the militants and others contributing money, the George Clooney crowd.
But John, again, I think he’s put his presidency in peril.
Later in the segment, McLaughlin asked his panel, “Is President Obama’s support of gay marriage a net plus, a net minus, or neutral in terms of impact on his reelection?”
Buchanan ominously said, “He’s energized his base which is small, but he’s energized a gigantic base which is large, and he’s split his Party. It’s I think going to prove the greatest mistake he made in his election year. I think it could cost him the presidency.”
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The left is pushing this gay marriage thing way too hard
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 4:50pm.
There is going to be a pushback, and I hope it's enough of one to knock the Dear Ruler out of power.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Agreed, Dave.
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 5:27pm.
Of all the things the left could have hitched their wagon to, they elected to hitch it to a blind-in-one-eye mule that just goes around in circles.
But then, the bandana-wearing SEAL caricature of Obama didn't sell. The steely-eyed fiscal conservative couldn't sell. The likable, down to earth guy next door won't sell. Maybe it's all they have?
Dave, Lets play the way back time machine on Berry the Butt...
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 5:42pm.
Rumor has it, that was his nick-name at Punahou...
Kuz ya know he was pudgy...
You Didn't Build That.
They're going to be pushing
Submitted by redfish on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 5:42pm.
They're going to be pushing transgender nonsense too, and 'boys that wear dresses' stuff, and 'sexually attracted to objects' stuff, and also continue attacking religion. That's why this will eventually backfire even for the younger generations.
Who would have thought....
Submitted by Redrowan2000 on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 5:39pm.
Joe Biden may have been the spark that rallied the conservative base to throw this Marxist/Socialist out of the White House? Joe your not stupid like everyone says. Just a Dem pol who tries to curry favor with every group he can and thats the dems problem.
"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
This is going to be fun watching.....
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 5:56pm.
Zero's goofs and blunders as his campaign implodes!! One word for his campaign, "Desperation"!!
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Will any democrat want Obama
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 6:52pm.
Will any democrat want Obama to campaign for them?
Landslidable might be an understatement.
so true
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 11:34pm.
BUCHANAN: He has instantly solved the biggest problem Mitt Romney had which is how to energize and rally the social conservatives and the Evangelicals.
The Left's (and obama's) war on Christianity is born of an arrogance that considers Christians as weak and will not fight to defend themselves but will continually turn the other cheek.
We shall see.
I really think it's something else going on.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:01am.
Duh Bumbler has been bending us over for 3.5 years so he decided he might as well legalize it.
You know, we're only a few years ahead of you on this issue.
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:57am.
I pray that Mr. Buchanan is right, but having lived through this, I'm afraid the dye has been cast. You may have already reached your tipping point.
When this crap nonsence started up here, 67%, or some majority like that, was opposed to gay marriage. It only took something like 3 three to 6 months later, thanks to our friendly, neighbourhood media, for the opinion to shift to the majority going the other way. Less than a year after that, SSM was the law of the land. Our politicians too declared less than 4 years before that there were "no plans to redefine marriage."
Things are happening just as fast in the U.S. The majority, (albeit a bare majority) is now in favour of SSM. (it was only about 25% in favour of it in 2008, or something like that.)
I really wonder if the motion was on the ballot today in California, Prop 8 would not pass, and many states that have passed amendments to ban SSM would not have done it now.
I hope I'm wrong on this, but so far, I see you following us on the same set of tracks. Give it 5 years before SSM is the law in all 50 states, with the help of your supreme court. FASTER if OweBlunder gets reelected (as per my earlier prediction). Even a Romney win will not stop this. It might slow it down a little, but the media is way too powerful to let this go when they are this close.
I certainly hope I'm wrong. The U.S. is our last hope to stand ground against this tyranical normalisation of an otherwise abnormal, and immoral lifestyle. But this isn't paranoia. Like I said, I've heard this song before, and I can't see any way it'll end differently this time.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
One may oppose gay marriage
Submitted by Tyler520 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:21am.
One may oppose gay marriage on religious grounds, or social grounds. One may support equal rights for gay couples under civil unions - I do. It is puzzling that certain people, including so called Conservatives, do not seem to comprehend that the notion of "marriage" is a religious institution, therefore a church issue. As such, the government should not have any part dictating what is...and what is NOT...marriage.
If you believe the government should have a role in defining marriage one way or another - which includes a theocratic application to ban gay marriage - you most definitely have no business calling yourself a small-government Conservative.