The Holy Ghost told Peter Waldron that Michele Bachmann is the one for President

Peter Waldron is a faith based adviser to Michele Bachmann. Bachmann’s campaign credited Waldron for helping Bachmann win the Iowa straw poll in August. Waldron made some news of his own in August when The Atlantic   disclosed that Waldron had been arrested in Uganda on terrorism charges. Those charges were never proven and later dropped. I reported here shortly after that story broke that Waldron supported Bachmann because he considered her to anointed by God for office like King David in comparison to Rick Perry who was more like King Saul. Events since then have made him half right. Perry has fallen on his own sword several times, while Bachmann has imploded, falling to single digits in the polls.

Hoping for a King David like victory in the Iowa caucus against whatever Goliath might happen to be standing at the time, Waldron is still active, working for Bachmann in Iowa. Last Thursday, Waldron appeared on the Steve Deace radio show to explain his support for Bachmann. When Deace asked Waldron at 49:33, “Why Michele Bachmann?” Waldron replied:

Waldron: I’m compelled by Scripture. If I may tell you the story of Michele Bachmann, how I came

Deace: Can you do it in 60 seconds?

Waldron: I can do it in less than 60 seconds.

Deace: Go ahead.

Waldron: I was interviewed by several candidates. I came to Iowa to be interviewed by Hermann Cain. I met with him at the Holiday Inn in downtown Des Moines. He was scheduled to speak at a home schooling event over at the capital. I went over to hear him speak and this woman came out and she spoke and the Holy Ghost said to me as I was standing there, uh, this is the one. And I left Des Moines, returned to my offices in Tennessee, I prayed and God said volunteer. So literally I volunteered for Michele Bachmann and a funny thing happened on the way to Des Moines.

Deace: Peter Waldron is here and he is working for the Michele Bachmann campaign and he makes the case that if you are an uncommitted values voters, she is your candidate.

After a break, Waldron made the case that Bachmann was the only candidate to look at every sector of society (law, politics, arts, etc) through a “biblical worldview” and thus the only candidate that God would bless to heal the nation. Waldron invoked I Chronicles 7:14 (“if my people pray and turn from their wicked ways, then…I will heal their land”) and said Bachmann was the only candidate who would bring prayer to the White House. Waldron compared Bachmann’s religious views to William Jennings Bryan and that this election is the most important election since the Civil War. Bachmann, says Waldron, is a Proverbs 31 woman who lives out her faith. Without such a President, the country is headed for a catastrophic end.

Host Deace asked Waldron what Bachmann would do about the Supreme Court rulings with which she disagreed. Specifically, Deace asked what Bachmann would do if the Supreme Court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act. Deace believes that any law that “does not square” with God’s law is no law at all. Although he said he wasn’t speaking for Bachmann, Waldron’s answer was to defund the judges and/or impeach them. He did promise this on behalf of Bachmann:

I make three promises for her in the last 20 seconds – First, she will protect the people, she will promote righteousness and she will punish wickedness, all defined by the Bible.

Politically, Waldron says that Bachmann is poised for a January surprise. He says that Bachmann has a strong and large organization on the ground working to get her people out for the caucus meetings. He predicts a victory in Iowa which will propel her to victories in South Carolina (another state Waldron has worked in for her) and Florida (where he claims to have worked from McCain in 2008).

Some may believe Bachmann has already had her day in the sun. However, many thought that about Newt Gingrich and he is now surging. I don’t think people should underestimate Bachmann in Iowa and what a strong showing there could do for her chances in SC and FL.

Additional note: Kyle Mantyla at Right Wing Watch posted last week that Peter Waldron’s co-author, George Grant, endorsed Michele Bachmann. Here is the video:

Grant once wrote this about the role of Christians in society:

Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ-to have dominion in the civil structures, just as in every other aspect of life and godliness.

But it is dominion that we are after. Not just a voice.

It is dominion we are after. Not just influence.

It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time.

It is dominion we are after.

World conquest. That’s what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish. We must win the world with the power ofthe Gospel. And we must never settle for anything less.

If Jesus Christ is indeed Lord, as the Bible says, and if our commission is to bring the land into subjection to His Lordship, as the Bible says, then all our activities, all our witnessing, all our preaching, all our craftsmanship, all our stewardship, and all our political action will aim at nothing short of that sacred purpose.

Thus, Christian politics has as its primary intent the conquest of the land – of men, families, institutions, bureaucracies, courts, and governments for the Kingdom of Christ. It is to reinstitute the authority of God’s Word as supreme over all judgments, over all legislation, over all declarations, constitutions, and confederations.

Seems clear enough to me. The folks who are getting on the Bachmann band wagon want dominion and Peter Waldron told Steve Deace that she is the only candidate who can deliver.

Despite Waldron and Bachmann’s assurances that dominionist evangelicals don’t have to settle for a compromise candidate, there might be some political angling left in the campaign. At one point, Grant’s endorsement was up on the Bachmann website but now it is gone.

 

18 thoughts on “The Holy Ghost told Peter Waldron that Michele Bachmann is the one for President”

  1. Waldron is crazy as are so many other fruitcake dominionists who back an even crazier Michelle Bachmann. How anyone in this country in his or her right mind would even contemplate Michelle Bachmann running for the 2012 prize is beyond me but proves how dumb so many Americans are. As to Susan Slater of NARTH she should be tried in the HAGUE as a criminal for advocating crimes against humanity along with other sex-starved fundies like Scott (Deadly) Lively for their hateful and sadistic attempts in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda for urging the murders/executions of anyone in those countries accused of homosexuality or even defending it. While our world is falling deeper into crisis, sexless demagogues like Susan Slater are obsessed and consumed with envy over other people’s sex lives. Susan, NARTH, American Family Association get a life!

  2. Oh dear!

    Well, judging by the polls, either the Holy Ghost or Peter Waldron has got it wrong.

    I’ll put my money on Peter Waldron. 🙂

  3. So …. the Holy Spirit is a Republican … LOL .. I guess we would have to assume that Jesus and the Father are Republicans too since they agree on everything.

    I am sitting here trying to imagine God’s throne room with Vote for Michelle Bachman bumper stickers everywhere.

    Dave

  4. The idea that God would even involve “himself” in political campaigns run for the purpose of electing a president in a representative republic is quite humorous.

    I find it amazing that since the Southern Strategy of the late 1980’s, when Ronald Reagan was elected, Christians have made it their sole idea for “winning the lost for Jesus.” Since when does God use a political outcome to change the course of human history and if God does, why then did the world fight against Adolf Hitler: a duly and legally elected Chancellor of the German Republic?

    There seems to be a disconnect when people proclaim themselves as representing the God of the universe, stating that God told them to run. Didn’t God tell Rick Perry to run? What has happened to his candidacy? And, how well does this speak of God’s power if as Rick Perry stated, God told him he would win?

    Mores the pity that so many self-deluded people claim God’s mantle of power yet don’t have the results to back up that assertion.

  5. The idea that God would even involve “himself” in political campaigns run for the purpose of electing a president in a representative republic is quite humorous.

    I find it amazing that since the Southern Strategy of the late 1980’s, when Ronald Reagan was elected, Christians have made it their sole idea for “winning the lost for Jesus.” Since when does God use a political outcome to change the course of human history and if God does, why then did the world fight against Adolf Hitler: a duly and legally elected Chancellor of the German Republic?

    There seems to be a disconnect when people proclaim themselves as representing the God of the universe, stating that God told them to run. Didn’t God tell Rick Perry to run? What has happened to his candidacy? And, how well does this speak of God’s power if as Rick Perry stated, God told him he would win?

    Mores the pity that so many self-deluded people claim God’s mantle of power yet don’t have the results to back up that assertion.

  6. Waldron is crazy as are so many other fruitcake dominionists who back an even crazier Michelle Bachmann. How anyone in this country in his or her right mind would even contemplate Michelle Bachmann running for the 2012 prize is beyond me but proves how dumb so many Americans are. As to Susan Slater of NARTH she should be tried in the HAGUE as a criminal for advocating crimes against humanity along with other sex-starved fundies like Scott (Deadly) Lively for their hateful and sadistic attempts in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda for urging the murders/executions of anyone in those countries accused of homosexuality or even defending it. While our world is falling deeper into crisis, sexless demagogues like Susan Slater are obsessed and consumed with envy over other people’s sex lives. Susan, NARTH, American Family Association get a life!

  7. Oh dear!

    Well, judging by the polls, either the Holy Ghost or Peter Waldron has got it wrong.

    I’ll put my money on Peter Waldron. 🙂

  8. At the end of the article the part about George Grant and the quotes from him really creep me out. Doesn’t this smack of that seven mountains theology? It is just really creepy.

  9. In Matthew, Jesus said the following:

    “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

    And I haven’t the slightest idea what that means.

    However, (echoing StraightGrandmother) I do believe that the commandment that forbids taking God’s name in vain is about speaking on behalf of God but without God’s specific direction. In other words, unless you’ve been talking to a burning bush, don’t come with your interpretation of Scripture announcing to me what God wants or what is God’s will as though your opinions carry the authority of the Creator of the Universe.

    And I suspect that blasphemy against the Holy Ghost may have similar themes.

    In any case, I’m not so sure I’d claim the divine direction of the Holy Ghost unless I was pretty darn sure of it. Because if Bachmann doesn’t win that leaves us with only a few options:

    1. God is ineffective

    2. The Holy Ghost is a liar

    3. Waldren is delusional and thinks that his whims have divine backing

    None of these are conclusions that speak well of Waldren’s capacity as an advisor. Either he is a fool or the god he worships is.

  10. Walron =I make three promises for her in the last 20 seconds – First, she will protect the people, she will promote righteousness and she will punish wickedness, all defined by the Bible.

    StraightGrandmother = Well I guess I better run for the hills, LOL, along with the rest of the U.S. population for ALL have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God. Guess President Bachman will bring her whip with her if she moves into the White House.

    Srlsy, I always question those who believe God has spoken directly to them. “This is God speaking…”

    Right….

  11. He didn’t say the Holy Spirit was Republican – just advocating for a Republican.

    I doubt that any of this will be important.

  12. So …. the Holy Spirit is a Republican … LOL .. I guess we would have to assume that Jesus and the Father are Republicans too since they agree on everything.

    I am sitting here trying to imagine God’s throne room with Vote for Michelle Bachman bumper stickers everywhere.

    Dave

  13. At the end of the article the part about George Grant and the quotes from him really creep me out. Doesn’t this smack of that seven mountains theology? It is just really creepy.

  14. In Matthew, Jesus said the following:

    “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

    And I haven’t the slightest idea what that means.

    However, (echoing StraightGrandmother) I do believe that the commandment that forbids taking God’s name in vain is about speaking on behalf of God but without God’s specific direction. In other words, unless you’ve been talking to a burning bush, don’t come with your interpretation of Scripture announcing to me what God wants or what is God’s will as though your opinions carry the authority of the Creator of the Universe.

    And I suspect that blasphemy against the Holy Ghost may have similar themes.

    In any case, I’m not so sure I’d claim the divine direction of the Holy Ghost unless I was pretty darn sure of it. Because if Bachmann doesn’t win that leaves us with only a few options:

    1. God is ineffective

    2. The Holy Ghost is a liar

    3. Waldren is delusional and thinks that his whims have divine backing

    None of these are conclusions that speak well of Waldren’s capacity as an advisor. Either he is a fool or the god he worships is.

  15. Walron =I make three promises for her in the last 20 seconds – First, she will protect the people, she will promote righteousness and she will punish wickedness, all defined by the Bible.

    StraightGrandmother = Well I guess I better run for the hills, LOL, along with the rest of the U.S. population for ALL have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God. Guess President Bachman will bring her whip with her if she moves into the White House.

    Srlsy, I always question those who believe God has spoken directly to them. “This is God speaking…”

    Right….

  16. He didn’t say the Holy Spirit was Republican – just advocating for a Republican.

    I doubt that any of this will be important.

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