According to this report evangelical Christians are dissatisfied with the current crop of Republican presidential candidates.

Evangelical Christians have long been a key constituency for the Republican Party, but leading religious conservatives are expressing dissatisfaction with the party’s current crop of presidential candidates.

“What’s different is that evangelicals had desirable candidates in 2000,” said Marvin Olasky, who helped define the “compassionate conservative” message that was central to President Bush’s 2000 campaign. “Now, many evangelicals are negative about the whole leader board.”

Eight years ago, Christian conservative stalwarts Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes sought the Republican nomination in a presidential field led from start to finish by Mr. Bush, who proudly proclaimed his born-again faith.

Each of the three Republicans most often mentioned as front-runners for the 2008 presidential nomination — Sen. John McCain of Arizona, former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — present significant problems to evangelical voters, said Mr. Olasky, a University of Texas professor and Christian journalist.

“The question is what will be less distasteful to many evangelicals: Mitt Romney’s one-wife Mormonism, Rudy Giuliani’s marital mayhem or John McCain’s recent disdain,” he said.

I am an evangelical Christian Republican. I’m not overly excited about our choices so far but that doesn’t mean I am more satisfied with what the candidates on the other side have to offer.

I hope and pray Fred Thompson decides to run so I have a clear-cut choice, but if he doesn’t…well, sometimes you have to suck it up and vote for the one you think better believes as you do on the issues.

At any rate, I won’t stay home on election day. A lot of Republicans did that last November and have come to rue the day.

Off topic, but I’m wondering if anyone knows about these presidential and congressional popularity polls. Are they polling all people, registered voters, or likely voters? Likely voters are the ones to poll because they are the ones who really matter.

The others just want to express an opinion but don’t bother to either register to vote or to vote at all.

Written by ~J~

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