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Unfortunately, were well underway into the 08 election.  Yesterday I, like many of you, watched the debate from the Ronald Reagan Library between the ten republican contenders.  We can go up to twelve if we count the possibililty of Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich jumping in.  As I listen to the talk shows and scour the editorials, news programs, and blogs one preeminent truth surfaces.  That is this: evangelical america doesn't like what it is being offered.  There is a real "turn off" of the present field and rightly so.  It seems we assumed that since we are the largest voting block of the republican party there would always be a professing evangelical christian to support.  Yet today our top three choices (determined by money collected) consist of a moderate to liberal mayor from New York, a less than reliable moderate senator from Arizona, and a politically pragmatic ex-governor from Massachusetts. Of the three none is a professing, practicing follower of the incarnate God, Jesus Christ.
All three are trying desperately to make bible believing evangelicals accept assertions that regardless of past liberal affinities, they are true "converts" to conservative, evangelical positions.  The general sense within the evangelical community is that there is a  lack of committment to christiam faith and practice among all three.  There are a few within the second tier that may be more palatable to christians.  Governor Huckabee and Senator Brownback come to mind.  But they aren't producing much excitement so there is a real question as to wether they are electable.  Yet it is still very early and anything can happen between now and next years primaries.
The fact that christians are not able to find a candidate in a field of ten (or twelve) to support forces the question, why?  Why is it that after twenty seven years (going back to the 1980 election) of unquestioned loyalty to the republican party has it been unable to offer an acceptable candidate?  Keeping in mind that we are probably looking at the most important election since 1860, you would think the republican establishment could have (and should have) offered a credible, reliable, and electable evangelical christian to put in the white house next year.  This is clearly a failure of conservative christian leadership at the highest levels of government.  With that it is time to ask the big question.
Is it not time for christians to form a third party?  It is time for the discussion to begin.  No longer can we depend on the republican apparatus.  We have the numbers (60 to 80 million is a good ballpark number), we have the talent, skills, and abilities, and  we have the money.  The only remaining question is: do we have the will,  the courage, and the love for this country to move forward and govern.  America is at a perilous point in its destiny.  We must accept the repsonibility God has put before us.  We must begin the process of creating a third political party, develope a platform, recruit and offer to the people God fearing, Christ honoring men and women to rescue a nation from eminent disaster from which there will be no return.  The reason for this urgency is simple.  Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reporach to any people.  Isn't it time?