What are diverse voters? Do you mean those voters who are against core Republican values?
Which core values that ALL Republicans agree? Remember, I said, ALL, because there are those who disagree some of the Republican core values. One of my main issues with conservatives is this: Extreme evangelical Christians make up 10% of all Republicans that controls 80% of the party which lead to the downfall of the Republican party. The extremes find it difficult to fully accept anyone the way they really are and chronically attempt to control them so that they can become the way they "should ideally be" which often leads to become fatalistic, hostile, pessimistic, and negativistic attitudes.
Politicians who struggle with imposing a moral code on themselves are unlikely to succeed in their attempts to impose it on others. The main issue would be that I look at "what morality is being legislated" more than if morality is being legislated.
In the past, most politicians and executives have failed "morally" in their lives by allowing money to influence their unwise decisions. If the politicians and executives can't control their own moral, why should the average americans?
The split between "conservatives" and "moderates" is really just a symptom that is between two aspects of the Republicans' philosophy:
1. Moderates are the ones who desire "that the individual has a right to live for his own goals"
versus
2. Conservatives are the ones who desire "that the individual live for the goals imposed on citizens by Congress"
It it a silly mistake for Republicans to want to choose between moderates and conservatives?
I believe the Republican party has moved too far to the right that made conservatives too powerful which that already alienated moderates and other conservative political independents.
I want to see the Republican party reformed and go back to back to the basic of Republican party. I want to see the Republican with Abraham Lincoln's attitude that they hold conservative positions on most issues but have an underlying worldview of what is happening and make decisions based on them. Repeated polls of historians have ranked Lincoln as among the greatest presidents in U.S. history, often appearing in the first position. Among contemporary admirers, Lincoln is usually seen as personifying classical values of honesty and integrity, as well as respect for individual and minority rights, and human freedom in general. Historians have stressed Lincoln's use of and redefinition of republican values that he highlighted the moral basis of republicanism, rather than its legalisms.
America's moral decline is a spiritual problem, not a political one, and its solution is the gospel, not partisan politics. The Republican Party have been damaged by the far right Christian politics. Negative perceptions of Christians are on the rise that people continues its drift away from Christian values. We live in a very sinful world and there is NO WAY we will be able to legislate our way into becoming a holy and pure nation. Thats not going to happen. We will never have a theocracy government. The tougher issues require reaching peoples hearts and minds and doing the things Scripture actually tells Christians that they should do, which is not political related.
Charles Colson wrote in his book about Conservative Christians, "Who Speaks for God?'':
"It's easy to become enthralled with access to places of supposed power. In time, however, without even knowing it, our well-intentioned attempts to influence government can become so entangled with a particular political agenda that it becomes our focus; our goal becomes maintaining our political access. When that happens, the gospel is held hostage to a political agenda -- and we become part of the very system we were seeking to change.''
As U.S. Citizens, what do we know what it really means to be a "Patriot"? Its not the U.S. Government fault but rather the PEOPLE who are running the government. I am a strong Christian and I am also a Patriot but I am very nuetural when it comes to politics. One thing we know for sure about politics in the next century is that Jesus Christ will still be Lord over all authorities on earth and that we are to be thinking about Christian political responsibility. We need to understand God's ways for political understanding, for an understanding that will allow us to become more faithful witnesses in politics to the God who rules the world through Jesus Christ. Our political challenge as Christians is to learn how to exercise our earthly political responsibilities in obedience to Christ. When the distinction is drawn between "Christians" and the "world" politics; we discuss all political aspects including economics, science, technology, and media that are part of "the world." Voting on issues such as capital punishment, abortion, prohibition, censorship, and many other ethical questions would be affected. I do believe very much in being a responsible Christian citizen. As good testimony to outsiders, Christians can work with non-Christians (& government) in attempting to promote justice and civic peace because it is good for all people, not just Christians (Galatians 6:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:15).
I mean the New Testament definitely tells us that being a "free nation" is worth defending and killing people..that's almost the core teaching of the Gospel if ya really think about it
Oh you mean I need the one dipped in red, white, and blue
