Iowa evangelical leader suggests Trump fire Scaramucci

[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Hill


BY MAX GREENWOOD - 07/29/17 10:39 PM EDT


An influential Iowa political activist is calling on President Trump to fire Anthony Scaramucci after the White House communications director went on a profanity-laced tirade during an interview with The New Yorker.

"'Silence equals assent.'" @POTUS must model and demand a higher standard. @Scarramuci should be fired immediately," Bob Vander Plaats, the president of the conservative group the Family Leader, tweeted Saturday.

In a separate blog post on the Family Leader's website, Vander Plaats urged Trump to wash "Scaramucci's mouth with a bar of soap" and promptly oust him from the White House.

"Mr. President, it is time to look in the mirror, accept responsibility, apologize to the American people, and declare an end to this behavior immediately," he wrote. "While what I’m urging may not be the “Trump” brand, it is the brand of a leader. We need a leader. You must lead!"



Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/344502-iowa-evangelical-leader-suggests-trump-fire-scaramucci

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Rev. Bob Vander Plaats knew Trump grabs peoples' crotches,
yet he supported him right up until this silly Tweet, didn't he?

Bite me, Bob.

[brooklynite]

1. Doesn't this "so called" Christian know that Trump can do no wrong?

[hibbing]

2. But pussy grabbing is okay

Along with all the other despicable things the current resident of the white house has said and done.


Peace

[lunasun]

3. This guy must be one of those morans . He just now figured out trump & co. are vulgar?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Many people are vulgar. Amateurs, jerks & idiots do not know the time or place for such language

Like so many in the tRump (Republican) clown show, Scaramucci is amateur, an idiot, and a jerk.

[question everything]

19. And before someone tries to correct you, here in DU we have a fond memory

of the word moran..

I am sure it is in the archives, someplace..

[lunasun]

21. Yes I know how to spell moron.He is a moran-republican spelling for those not in the know of origin

[SoCalMusicLover]

30. Get A Brain!

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[Manly_Scream]

4. Well of course...

Profanity and degrading insults is for keeping women, queers, and savages in line.

It shouldn't be directed at good pure straight Jew-hating white men.

[yardwork]

15. Bingo! This was just fine until poor little Bannon got picked on.

Now it's an atrocity.

[Canoe52]

5. Without the "mooch"

we wouldn't know who is sucking their own...

Lol, just couldn't finish writing that sentence, and I am one who can have a pretty colorful vocabulary!

[tblue37]

26. That line reminds me of this Carlin classic:

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[Midnight Writer]

6. mooch and The President need to hit this guy back ten times as hard. Let him know "profane".

[47of74]

7. Along with Steve King Vander Plaats is the worst thing to come out of Iowa...

Along with Steve King Vander Plaats is the worst thing to come out of Iowa in many, many years. Vander Plaats is an incredible douche nozzle.

[progressoid]

10. Yup. And that douche nozzle declared that God intervened to help Drumpf win.

[longship]

8. They own him! Lock, stock, and barrel!

Just listen to them all! The evangelicals are totally over the moon on Trump!

Right Wing Watch
He's God's choice, after all!

[BeyondGeography]

9. High standards from Trump?

Must be one of those geniuses who took him seriously but not literally that we were supposedly too dense to understand.

[Bengus81]

12. Don't do it Trump!!! Keep that foul mouthed "family values" guy around n/t

[Paladin]

13. Wow---an evangelical with the courage of his convictions and beliefs.

There's something you don't see very often, anymore. I'll try to remember this guy, next time trump summons in a bunch of holy rollers to lay their hands upon him in the Oval Office......

[tavernier]

14. In spite of the hypocrisy

I'm glad the evangelical community is starting to at least smell a little of the shit that is being tracked into our White House.

[yardwork]

16. Don't be fooled. See the post upthread. This is all about Bannon.

[lunasun]

22. 100% agree. Otherwise it is a God sent delight

[dalton99a]

17. "Who's this cocksucker Bob Vander Plaats? What kind of a fucking name is that? Do I really need to

send him a fucking dead fish?"

[CentralMass]

27. Joey Bag of Doughnuts.

[question everything]

18. Right. Evangelicals supported Trump because they were offedned that Hillary

did not stay home, bake cookies, and be happy with her "wifely" duties (whatever they are..)

[NNadir]

20. How stupid can you be to be religious and to assume that Trump is any kind of model for faith?

These right wing racist fundementalists are clueless but they were perfectly OK with dragging their country into a mire of filth.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Epistle to the Galatians, 6: 7

I'm not a religious person, but it would seem to me to the extent that these racist assholes supported Trump, they are mocking their God.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

23. Most Evangelicals know Trump is a total pig.

Still, they believe their god has sent them useful infidels throughout the years.

I can't find the best article I read on this subject, but here are two that address it nearly as well:

Thomas Jefferson may have taken a razor to his personal copy of the Gospels, excising the tales of miracles, but he had friends among the Baptists, who supported his campaign to enshrine religious freedom into law. Trump is not the first politically useful infidel to find allies in the evangelical world.

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In any case, ideology is not the sole bond between conservative evangelicals and Donald Trump. His dictator-lite charisma is essential to his appeal. To the majority of Americans—those who did not vote for him—Trump has all the allure of the boorish boss who takes too many liberties at the staff Christmas party. But his authoritarian machismo is right in step with a long evangelical tradition of pastor-overlords who anoint themselves with the power to make their own rules—and, in the event of their own occasional moral lapses, assure their followers that God always forgives.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/a-match-made-in-heaven/521409/

But it was Tony Perkins, head of conservative Family Research Council, who abandoned any pretense that supporting Trump was about personal morality—it was about power.

“Evangelicals have been highly selective about how and when they decided to be outraged with a candidate’s behavior.”

“My support for Donald Trump in the general election was never based upon shared values rather it was built upon shared concerns,” Perkins told the Washington Post.

Liberals and conservatives alike chided such comments as hypocritical. Worthen, however, said they were par for the course.

“Evangelicals have been highly selective about how and when they decided to be outraged with a candidate’s behavior,” she said. “I’m not sure [disreputable behavior] has ever stopped them from making an alliance with a candidate who they may find useful for any number of reasons.

”https://thinkprogress.org/why-religious-conservatives-didnt-shame-trump-in-2016-and-probably-won-t-in-2017-either-44576f6761d9

[Initech]

24. Oh you can bet good money that Trump will fire Scaramucci.

The question is when.

[Best_man23]

25. If there's a billboard close to that church/organization and I had the money

I'd rent it for the next 18 months and put every vulgarity coming out of the WH, the Russipublicans, and the right on it with the words "In 2016, Vander Plaats and The Family Leader Advocated For This"

Needless to say, the kabuki mask has been permanently ripped off the evangelical right in this country.

[CentralMass]

28. I'd throw in on that.

[Kleveland]

29. Delusional Bible thumping douch nozzle, like the rest of them!

Hypocritical to say the least.

That, and complete ignorance of the concept of separation of church and state!

Take that cross and shove it!