"For Iowa’s evangelicals, no clear GOP favorite; Major factor in Republican caucus" by Tracy Jan Globe Staff / December 18, 2011
ACKLEY, Iowa - Inside the Carson family home, a white farmhouse surrounded by corn and soy bean fields and accessible only by gravel road, adherence to the teachings of the Lord Jesus is paramount.
The four children are home-schooled, to guard against a sinful outside world. Tim Carson, a 54-year-old welder and former atheist who said he found God at age 17, taught each of his children to read by age 5 from the Gospel of John.
While their lives center around family and religion, the Carsons worry about what they see as a nation undone by financial and moral bankruptcy. That concern will drive the Carsons - and a disproportionate number of Christian evangelicals - to Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses Jan. 3 to help choose the Republican nominee for president....
Of course, AIPAC's lock-down on U.S. foreign policy and the financial sectors dominance on the domestic front means nothing to the Zionist War Daily.
For Tim Carson, his wife, Betty, and their eldest daughter, Bethany, who will turn 18 by the November election, the right choice is Texas Representative Ron Paul - someone unabashedly opposed to abortion who they feel has the courage to limit the powers of the federal government, cut spending, and return America to its God-given freedoms....
In the Carson home, prayers are said regularly, before meals or just when the family is moved to do so- like on a recent evening when they bowed their heads to thank God for providing a “fun day.’’
The highlight: piling into the family van for a visit to a nursing home where all six sang gospel music and discussed the need for Jesus in their lives. The children took turns on the piano, violin, guitars, mandolin, accordions, harmonicas - instruments the family said were gifts from God that they learned to play with little formal training. Two of the girls yodeled.
The Carsons spent much of the summer and fall giving their children a political education, carting 17-year-old Bethany, 15-year-old Charity, 13-year-old Daniel, and 10-year-old Sarah Faith from campaign event to campaign event in their beige Ford Econoline.
While Charity said she would rather spend her time reading books about aviators and World War II bombing raids, Bethany proudly posts photos on her Facebook page of her smiling next to Paul; her and Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann; her and former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum; and her and business executive Herman Cain, who has since suspended his campaign.
Who?
The teenager, who like her sisters wears her hair to her waist and favors calf-length skirts out of modesty, is the first in her family to rise each morning at 5 a.m. to beat her younger siblings to the family’s only computer.
She logs on to the Internet to update her political blog - a treatise on why she plans to caucus for Paul. She has also penned letters to the editor about her support, one of which was recently published in the Cedar Falls Times. And she urges extended family and friends to caucus for him in a newsletter she publishes every two months that also includes religious poems, essays, vocabulary and Bible quizzes, and favorite recipes like teriyaki venison jerky.
Bless her!
As the family sat down for a lunch of roast beef and mashed potatoes recently, Betty Carson, a 43-year-old former Army Reserve sergeant who worked as a Red Cross phlebotomist before she had children, elaborated on the family’s support for Paul’s libertarian views: “We’re taught to trust in God, not the government. God will provide our every need.’’
She's a mom in the military, huh?
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The Carson grandparents are undecided.
Colleen Carson, an 81-year-old painter, said she wants a president who will encourage Christianity to be practiced freely in public schools and to support marriage as only between a man and a woman.
With all due respect, those are nothing issues right now. The REAL ISSUES are WAR, WALL STREET, and subservience to Israel.
“This country was founded on Christian faith,’’ she said from her recliner as her grandchildren listened attentively from the staircase behind her. “If you don’t like it, you can always leave.’’
I always love a fascist mind-set in the morning.
Yeah, fighting for the survival of the nation and country you love is not worth it. Just leave.
Considering the Congresses recent omnibus spending bill that shreds the Bill of Rights by authorizing indefinite detention of Americans by the military maybe the advice is sound.
Then again, WHERE AM I TO GO? This is my HOME!!!!!
And despite my opinions and effort of five years here, I would still be viewed as an asshole AmeriKan in any foreign country-- and I can't say as I blame the rest of the world for thinking that.
While former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is “probably the most moral man up there,’’ she said, “I just feel we should have a godly man leading this country with a strong Christian faith.’’
Related: Sunday Globe Special: War Criminal in Waiting
Yeah, he's a real moral man, grandma.
Also see:
Her husband, Harry, interjected. “Well, honey, Mormons are considered Christian,’’ said the 81-year-old retired John Deere engineer.
“If I am wrong, I will pray about it,’’ Colleen said.
Harry said he believes Romney will prevail as the Republican nominee.
“Of the field running at this time, I believe he is the best man to hold office,’’ Harry Carson said. “Farmers don’t care what religion you are, as long as you’re Christian.’’
Is that a real quote, or is the paper just making it up or distorting it like so many things?
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Exhibit A:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the current favorite with born-again evangelicals by a 2-to-1 ratio over Bachmann, Romney, and Paul, said Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Co., which conducts polling for the Des Moines Register.
The caucuses are expected to draw tens of thousands of Iowans, many of whom say they are motivated by God to pick a leader who is a true conservative to right the nation’s course....
Candidates keen on courting the evangelical vote continue to flood Iowans’ homes with campaign brochures professing their devotion to God. Paul issued a six-page letter in November outlining his pro-life stance, and affirming that he’s been a Christian his entire life....
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Related: The Bloom is Off the Boston Globe
Gee, the Globe gave you all that but censored the Bloom story? How nefarious!
Also see: The Globe's Invisible Ink: Ron Paul in New Hampshire
