Lindy Scott's Blog: Are Scott and Cegelis Splitting the Vote?

Scott asks,

A question that is raised quite frequently is “Will Scott and Cegelis split the District 6 votes and let Duckworth squeak through with a narrow victory?”

and he says he's attracting,

...citizens who feel attracted to my campaign and are being attracted to the Democratic Party for the first time or perhaps are coming home. These include high school and college students, voters who claim to be religious (Catholic, Evangelical, Muslim, etc.), ethnic minorities (Latinos, Indo-Pakistani Americans, Greek Americans, etc.), swing voters and senior citizens who want to see integrity restored to our political system. This group of supporters did not vote for Christine two years ago and would not generally be attracted to Christine’s campaign this time.

Is he right?

I love him because I spend so much time with Political Liberals at Church --spooked by an Evangelical Right-- and love to point him out as an Evangelical Leftist who's fascinated with Castro and perfect confirmation of Orwell's Cruel Pacifist,

All in all it is difficult not to feel that pacifism, as it appears among a section of the intelligentsia, is secretly inspired by an admiration for power and successful cruelty.

As pointed out nicely by Stephen Rhoads in a now cached page from Wheaton College's Right Blog,

I find you to be a very good professor and teacher and I greatly enjoyed the time that we spent together in Cuba. The time in Cuba produced a negative impression in my mind of not you as a person, but those who support the Cuban project, which I find to be immensely suffocating and fundamentally contradictory of the basic premises of human dignity.

But we will most certainly disagree in these value judgments. We know that you are in favor of the high quality of education and health care that the Cuban system provides. We wish that every nation could be afforded the luxury of such high standards but would never impose such a system through the revocation of private property and the denial of the most basic rights of freedom of speech, assembly, religion and thought.
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Dr. Scott, I like you and would gladly take another course from you if I were to continue studying Spanish at Wheaton. However, as much as we respect you, we do find it troubling that someone running for U.S. Congress as a Christian would have openly admired Communist regimes in front of students. That, coupled with our lack of agreement on domestic and foreign policy, produced our editorial.

Sincerely,
Stephen Rhoads and the editorial board of RIGHT Magazine

The are good reasons why Clerics and Theologians best stay on the sidelines when it comes to politics.