Posted on 11/09/2012 4:58:17 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2
The fically convervative but social liberal types have been in denial for decades that the social conservative's warnings have been right all along (all the while being smeared and demonized for telling the truth).
Now that the social liberal utopia is upon us, the same liberals(RINOS and many libertarians) that were wrong before are now suggesting that conservatives turn their backs on four hundered years of American civilization and concede to becoming a European cesspool clone.
Pro-abortion? Of course not. But realistically, arguing that abortion should be categorically banned under any circumstances isn’t going to win them elections.
Gay marriage? No, they don’t need to favor it—certainly not at a Federal level. If people wanted to be more clever in arguments against gay marriage, they could take the stance that gay marriage is discriminatory against unmarried people, etc.
Overall, you may not like it, but I think the GOP is in a better position to let these things go and assert them as states’ rights issues. The culture war isn’t ‘winnable’ on a national scale, it’s something better engaged on local levels.
Support for Israel under pretext of mutual national security interests would be palatable. Supporting Israel under pretext of Christian-Jewish friendship or something of this nature, wouldn’t be.
What does “fervently pro-life” imply?
Look at post 127, the GOP doesn’t do much in the way of trying to appeal to full conservatives, they give a little lip service, do some gun stuff, wave the flag a little, but then they do like post 127.
There is no pool of voters out there in the democrat party that are eager to become republicans for conservative economic theory and Ayn Rand, but they can be appealed to on the eternal issues of family friendly, culture friendly, society friendly, social issues.
Bull shite.
The fraud was a liberal Republican
What a flapping moron.
There has never been an anti-mormon post on FR, there have been many anti-mormonISM threads in the religion forum.
But I really do not expect people who are Romney lap dogs to understand the difference.
Are you God?
You have been using the word ‘fervently’ over and over on this thread so I can only assume you have no idea what ‘pro-life’ means. Pro-life means anti-abortion for starters.
Good lord that is a stupid comment
Correct, I tend to vote Republican, albeit not enthusiastically. I certainly won’t vote Democrat.
My political outlooks largely revolve around wanting to see statism defeated and rolled back in all its forms—fiscally and socially. I’m not particularly convinced that it’s possible to legislate people into being moral.
Democrat voters in the main aren’t going to switch away, because many are convinced that liberty comes through government instead of through themselves.
But there’s plenty of largely unaffiliated folks and true independents who don’t believe that, yet also don’t like the perceived moralistic bent of the GOP.
Nice back peddle...
IOWs they want the right to kill babies. Don't worry I don't expect an honest or direct answer from you. In my 12+ years here I have never seen more trollish posting than what you're doing here.
If you're going to compare one group to another and lay judgments on them, which is what you've been doing, then percentages are the only thing that matters. You are amazingly bigoted.
Not trolling. Like I said, I’ve been here too long for that. I’m only sharing an opinion, comprising what I’ve observed from spending time among many different political circles out of curiosity to see how they think and why. And from what I can tell, the Republican Party loses heaps of potential voters due to categorical stances on certain social issues.
Very interesting article. Thanks for posting it.
Boy, you are trying hard to get some attention aren’t you?
Posters who bait a thread with accusations and unsupported statements and then refuse to answer direct questions are trolls. That is the definition of trolling. Anyone who has been here since ‘02 and claims they don’t know what the pro-life platform of the Republican Party is is lying and a troll.
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