Trump Campaign Bombs in Virginia, Again

[workinclasszero]

Trump Campaign Bombs in Virginia, Again
Empty bleachers and a hostile student body greeted Trump vice presidential nominee Mike Pence in Virginia on Saturday at one of the most religiously conservative schools in the country.
Tim Mak 08.27.16 7:40 PM ET

PURCELLVILLE, Va. — Mike Pence definitely chose the wrong place to give a stump speech.
Trump’s VP nominee railed against Hillary Clinton in Northern Virginia on Saturday afternoon—but he chose to do it at an evangelical Christian college with a history of anti-Trump sentiment. Students protested outside, while inside students stood in silent protest until they were ejected mid-speech.

The protests and poor attendance at the speech at Patrick Henry College illustrate the challenges that Trump has appealing to evangelical Christians, especially younger ones, who are turned off by his tone, his campaign ideas and his personal history—and are not at all assauged by his choice of Pence for his running mate.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/27/trump-campaign-bombs-in-virginia-again.html

[SummerSnow]

1. KABOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tonyt53]

2. Finally, a place that teaches religion isn't about hate.

[underthematrix]

3. Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes the difference between

#WhiteExcellence and #whitesupremacy. White excellence says we're stronger together which is why I'm With Her in 2016, 2018 and 2020

[sofa king]

4. That's... unexpected.

Patrick Henry is an absurd hack-school, mainly attended by religiously home-schooled rich kids. On entry, one has to sign a statement professing unwavering belief in the literal word of the Bible.

That should automatically disqualify its graduates from public service, but its primary claim to fame is that Patrick Henry provided an unusual percentage of incompetent interns to the most incompetent politicians of our age, including the Bush White House, Karl Rove, and the very worst Members of Congress prior to the Tea Party movement.

If those poor lost children see through the Trump movement, it's a telling commentary about how low the Trump campaign has sunk. It's as unexpected to me as it would have been if the Hitler Youth were ejected from a speech by Reinhard Heydrich.

Edit: You need not take my word for it:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patrick_Henry_College
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/06/27/god-and-country
http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2005/06/patrick_henry_c.html

[SCantiGOP]

5. '...should disqualify graduates from public service'?

Has the first amendment been repealed? That would be no different than to disqualify someone from public service because they didn't go to a fundamentalist church.

[sofa king]

15. I disagree.

Climate-change deniers shouldn't be the administrators of the EPA, which actually happened. People who believe their god tells them that Roe v. Wade is illegal are putting stupid beliefs over the law. If you're going to spend shitloads of money to study the world's problems and apply it to public policy, you have to properly apply the science, not say, "that's not what I learned in church, so I choose not to believe in it."

The First Amendment does not apply to following law and regulation, unless you want to say you don't like it and do your job well, anyway, which Patrick Henry hacks did not.

The Bush Administration specifically sought out these people for their stupid beliefs, which guaranteed their party loyalty over proper governance, and we still suffer for it today.

[mopinko]

6. i blame bernie.

that speech he gave at liberty laid the groundwork, and i think woke up a lot of young evangelicals.
young people seem pretty determined not to launch their futures in drumphworld.

[AllyCat]

12. We need ALL our Democrats to change our future!

Yeah Bernie!

[Ilsa]

7. This:

“I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican—in that order,” said Pence, playing to the audience.

Where does he say, "I'm an American,"? Where does that come in the order of things?

[WillyBrandt]

8. Right after "I'm an agent of an agent of Putin"

Then he says "I'm American-ish"

[Ilsa]

9. LOL. Good one! nt

[63splitwindow]

10. +1

[workinclasszero]

13. LOLOL!

[left-of-center2012]

11. He should have read from "Two Corinthians" n/t

[workinclasszero]

14. The Rev. Trump's favorite book of the Bible