And the Lord said “Verily, I say unto you, that Rick Santorum shall be the ‘Not-the-Romney’ candidate”

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The end-times Christian Reconstructionists and Dominionists have annointed their chosen one. And the Lord said "Verily, I say unto you, that Rick Santorum shall be the 'Not-the-Romney' candidate." And so it came to pass. Take a Tebow, Rick. Evangelical leaders back Santorum – chicagotribune.com:

Influential evangelical Christian leaders on Saturday endorsed Rick Santorum for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination, in an attempt to strengthen him as the more conservative alternative to front-runner Mitt Romney.

At a weekend meeting at a ranch outside Houston, Texas, the group of 150 conservatives agreed on the third ballot to support the former Pennsylvania senator.

"What I did not think was possible appears to be possible," said Tony Perkins, leader of the Family Research Council and spokesman for the group.

It's a miracle!

Conservatives are desperate to find a viable alternative to Romney, who won the first two nomination contests in Iowa and New Hampshire and now leads the polls in South Carolina, which holds its Republican primary on January 21.

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Despite Romney's front-runner status, many conservatives mistrust him because of his record in relatively liberal Massachusetts, where he once supported abortion rights.

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Perkins said the group debated and prayed over who to pick but in the end chose the person they believed had the best social conservative and economic policies and was most likely to defeat Democratic President Barack Obama in the November 6 election.

Santorum's nearest rival was the twice-divorced Gingrich. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

So Evangelical Christians chose a charismatic Catholic over a converted Catholic –Evangelicals supporting "Papists" — we've come a long way since the days of JFK. And they rejected one of their very own, Governor Goodhair Rick Perry, in his own backyard even after he hosted a tent revival meeting for them this past summer. Goodhair must feel like the good son in the parable of the prodigal son — "Why HIM?"

This GOP clown car primary just keeps getting crazier every day.