"Republicans Have Found Their Dream Leader and His Name Is Vladimir Putin"
Republicans Have Found Their Dream Leader and His Name Is Vladimir PutinBy: Rmuse at Politicus USA
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/03/10/republicans-dream-leader-vladimir-putin.html
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Another conservative pundit praised Putin because “he likes to hang out with his shirt off and tells the West if you mess with me I’ll kill you all.” Even half-term, half-wit Sarah Palin compared the conservative’s hero with President Obama and said, ”people look at Putin as one who wrestles bears and drills for oil, and our President wears mom jeans and equivocates.” Another Fox analyst said, “In Putin, you’ve got a big strong guy, muscular and shirtless on a horse who wrestles tigers, while the President wears mom jeans.” It is unclear why conservatives are obsessed with mom jeans, whatever they are, but it is likely to compare President Obama’s diplomacy first foreign policy with a big shirtless leader who subscribes to the George W. Bush foreign policy of pre-emptively invading sovereign nations; the conservative’s idea of a “real leader.”
However, as much as Republicans are enamored with Putin’s rapid decision to invade Ukraine without going to the United Nations or a reason other than he wanted to, it is the religious right that would install Putin as America’s theocratic dictator tomorrow if they could convince Americans to amend the Constitution to allow a Christian foreigner to rule America. The religious right regards Putin as their archetypical leader because he made it Russian policy to do what Christian fanatics yearn for in America; crackdown on gays and make Christianity the state religion. In fact, Christians anointed Putin the “defender of the Christian civilization” or as Christian zealot Bryan Fischer asserted, Putin is “the lion of Christianity, the defender of Christian values, the president that’s calling his nation back to embracing its identity as a nation founded on Christian values. To ever think we would get to the day that Russia would be more advanced spiritually than the United States. I mean, it’s just staggering to see what is happening to this country.”
Fischer, like nearly all evangelical Christians heaped praise on Putin for signing a ban on gay propaganda and gushed that “this is public policy that we’ve been advocating and here is a nation in the world that is actually putting it into practice.” It was reported here yesterday that the World Congress of Families (WFC) summit meeting (Pro-Life Olympics) is still being held in Moscow despite Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. As noted in the article, the communications director of the WCF “justified, exonerated, and extolled Putin’s behavior because Putin is behaving a lot like George W Bush” by pre-emptively invading a sovereign nation. Although Bush never claimed he was defending Christian civilization by hunting down gays, banning abortion advertising, and likely ban abortion, there is little doubt he would have if he had the authority. As an aside, abortion is the top birth control method in Russia because contraception is prohibitively expensive; something Christians yearn for in America as evidence by their rabid opposition to contraception coverage in healthcare prescription plans.
Americans should not be deluded that if they had the opportunity, Republicans would install a Putin-like character as president in a heartbeat. Their praise of Putin’s decisive leadership in invading a sovereign nation like George W. Bush, and staunch support for a state-mandated Christian religion authorizing the hunting down and brutalizing of gays signals their intent for America if they were left unchecked. The argument that conservatives and Republicans love Putin because he is the polar opposite of President Obama has some merit but misses the bigger point entirely. It is true that Republicans hate that President Obama defends and supports the Constitution’s guarantee of equal rights for all Americans, and they cannot tolerate the President’s “diplomacy first” foreign policy, but what they want in a president is a Christian dictator who, like Putin and George W. Bush, invades sovereign nations on a whim, and forces Christianity down the throats of every American under threat of death. It is true that Republicans have found their archetype to rule over America, but since Vladimir Putin cannot run for the presidency, Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Paul Ryan, and Rick Santorum all have presidential aspirations and a prototype in Russian president Putin to model themselves when the 2016 Republican primaries begin.
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Thanks for the inspiration:
An Izvestia writer named Stazy,
Said "Putin must surely be crazy".
But Vladimir heard,
The discouraging word,
And now Stazy is pushing up Daizies.
http://www.pewforum.org/2014/02/10/russians-return-to-religion-but-not-to-church/
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131224/185903098/Orthodox-Christian-Belief-Rises-among-Russians--Poll.html
Two out of three Russians now regard themselves as Orthodox Christians compared to just one in six in 1989, when the Soviet Union was nearing dissolution.
Now that I have manually transferred your hindquarters to your possession, you may go.
Excerpt rom your own RIA Novosti link.
The number of Russian Catholics and Protestants has remained roughly the same, at about 1 percent.
About one in five Russians, or 19 percent, said that they had no religious belief compared to 75 percent in 1989, when the official position of the state was atheist, and 53 percent in 1991, after the Soviet collapse.
Most Orthodox believers are not regular church-goers, with only 4 percent saying that they attended services once a week. Some 35 percent said that they never went to Church, while 17 percent said that they attended services a few times a year.
The whole argument of the OP is mute as your own link clearly states christians and protestant equal 1 percent. Once again your pulling info from PEW polls that are obviously biased as technically the whole country is "under" the Russian Orthodox church with no one actually believing or attending. The CIA fact book cites this.
The last PEW poll you cited for Russia had half the population against alcohol, premarital sex and gambling. PEW may not be a very good source for info on Russia unless you seriously believe Russian abstain from all those things. Having been there 7 times I can say without a doubt Russia is not what PEW thinks it is unless they just polled that 1% in a church. Russia is a crazy country with a lot of religious symbolism but the people don't give a shit about any of it. And what logical explanation would there be for an entire country of Atheists to suddenly all be religious in 23 years. It makes no sense whatsoever.
Here's a link to Wiki religion in Russia page with completely different statistics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Russia
Here's an excerpt completely contradictor to your PEW poll.
Out of a population of 142,800,000 the survey found that 58,800,000 or 41% are Russian Orthodox, 9,400,000 or 6.5% are Muslims (including Sunni Islam, Shia Islam, and a majority of unaffiliated Muslims), 5,900,000 or 4.1% are unaffiliated Christians, 2,100,000 or 1.5% adhere to other Orthodox Churches (including Ukrainian, Georgian, Armenian and other churches), 1,700,000 or 1.2% are Pagans (including Rodism or "Rodnovery", Ætsæg Din, Caucasian Neopaganism and Uralic Neopaganism) or Tengrists (Turco-Mongol shamanic religions and new religions), 700,000 or 0.5% are Buddhists (mostly Vajrayana), 400,000 or 0.2% are Orthodox Old Believers, 300,000 or 0.2% are Protestants, 140,000 are adherents of Eastern religions including Hindus and Krishnaites, 140,000 are Catholics, 140,000 are Jews.[1][2] The Bahá'í Faith in Russia (Вера Бахаи
, according to Association of Religion Data Archives was estimated at about 18,990 in 2005.[8] The remaining population is made up of 36,000,000 or 25% "spiritual but not religious" people, 18,600,000 or 13% atheist and non-religious people and 7,900,000 people or 5.5% of the total population who have deemed themselves "undecided".[1][2
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I recall arguing with racist baggers when he got elected. Of course, your IQ goes down trying that, I don't recommend it for any length of time. I just had this peculiarly American idea of all people being equal and that their opinions mattered, you know?
They said he had to be insane, because he was mixed race. it is their version of phrenology. Their claims ranged from his likehood to be feminine as one half of his brain was black, and the other half white, thus it was the male half.
The contention, lame brained as it was, would be that one cannot be both, so one will be dangerously unstable. As far as that feminine side, women are not capable of leading since they are too emotional and can't do math. Yes, they still parrot that trash.
After arguing all of that, they said I must have voted for him because of white guilt. Which I denied, saying that I'd voted for his white half, LOL!
Yes, 
