Confound It!

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

I’m casting my vote for peace.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Here I am (we are) again, waiting for you…
And, sure enough, you appear. Do I see you?
Here I am again, listening for you…
And, sure enough, you speak. Do I hear you?
Let it be so.

amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Honk if you love me!”

[Like a goose? No, He never said it.]

D. Blog: Confound

[from Online Etymology Dictionary]

c.1290, "discomfit, abash, confuse," from Anglo-Fr. confoundre, from O.Fr. confondre, from L. confundere "to confuse," lit. "to pour together," from com- "together" + fundere "to pour" (see found (2)). The fig. sense of "confuse, fail to distinguish, mix up" emerged in L., passed into O.Fr. and thence into M.E., where it is mostly found in Scripture; the sense of "destroy utterly" is recorded in Eng. from c.1300. The L. pp., meanwhile, became confuse (q.v.). Confounded as an execration is first recorded 1652.
[So, political campaigns have been around for a long time...]

[From dictionary.com]

1. to perplex or amaze, esp. by a sudden disturbance or surprise; bewilder; confuse: The complicated directions confounded him.
2. to throw into confusion or disorder: The revolution confounded the people.
3. to throw into increased confusion or disorder.
4. to treat or regard erroneously as identical; mix or associate by mistake: truth confounded with error.
5. to mingle so that the elements cannot be distinguished or separated.
6. to damn (used in mild imprecations): Confound it!
7. to contradict or refute: to confound their arguments.
8. to put to shame; abash.
9. Archaic.
a.to defeat or overthrow.
b. to bring to ruin or naught.
10. Obsolete. to spend uselessly; waste.