{"id":44927,"date":"2017-11-17T13:04:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T20:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=44927"},"modified":"2017-11-17T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T20:04:48","slug":"make-america-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/11\/make-america-great.html","title":{"rendered":"Make America Great Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Roy<\/a>
Judge Roy Moore in 2011 (Wikimedia CC public domain image)
Alabamans can help Make America Great Again by sending this good and wise man to join Al Franken in the Senate!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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John Adams:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Patrick Henry:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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James Madison:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.\u201d
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***<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not a fan of Al Franken as a senator. \u00a0I once (literally) ran into him, by accident, at Reagan National Airport in Washington DC. \u00a0Perhaps I should have hit him harder.<\/p>\n

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So, now that Senator Franken has (very credibly) been accused of inappropriate behavior toward a woman, I find it deeply gratifying that we have a man in the White House who has the moral authority to condemn the senator\u2019s misbehavior \u2014 although the President has been silent as a Trappist monk on the subject of Judge Roy Moore.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words,\u201d tweeted President Donald J. Trump. \u00a0\u201cWhere do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 while she sleeps?\u201d<\/p>\n

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While reading President Donald J. Trump\u2019s tweet, I could not help but think of the first four lines of Alfred Lord Tennyson\u2019s 1842 poem \u201cSir Galahad\u201d:<\/p>\n

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My good blade carves the casques of men,<\/p>\n

My tough lance thrusteth sure,<\/p>\n

My strength is as the strength of ten<\/p>\n

Because my heart is pure.<\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As I write, it seems that Judge Moore will remain in the race, likely delivering a safe Republican Senate seat to the Democrats.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s some recent commentary on the subject:<\/p>\n

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\u201cRoy Moore and the Sorry State of Evangelical Politics\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cRoy Moore Is Pure Steve Bannon\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cBannon\u2019s Failed Candidates\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cKennedy, Clinton, and Weinstein: A Convenient Reckoning\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Uses of Disgrace\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cLiberals\u2019 Sudden Concern About Bill Clinton\u2019s Behavior Is Cynical\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe Were Young\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cAl Franken Gives Liberals Another Chance at Virtue\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cAl Franken Staying in the Senate Would Be a Gift to the Republican Party\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cDaily Beast writer says he \u2018never liked Mitt Romney\u2019 but is now \u2018desperate for his comeback'\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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