The social issues are important, and many of us hold them dear, but the vast majority of American voters will ignore them, if their main concern is finding a job to put food on their tables.
I could not disagree more. More Americans than you think do indeed care about social issues. Issues of morality aren’t just about “sex”, people without a moral compass also commit graft, bribery, and all manner of fiduciary corruption due to unbridled greed and not having any conscience. The very foundation of human civilization has to be morality. The only other option is might. If there is no general acceptance and support of personal morality, a country quickly devolves into worse than robber baronism, and that is what we are seeing now.
You ever heard “man does not live by bread alone”? This is not a sectarian belief, but the simple universal truth. A human with a full belly, a warm bed, clothes and a roof over his head is an animal if he has no morality.
Divorcing social conservatism from fiscal conservatism is not only not possible, but loses elections. Why do the social conservatives always have to compromise, back down, give up, and let the hedonist “money is the only important thing” Republicans have their way with us? Why can’t THEY compromise with US? THEY FREAKING LOSE ELECTIONS!!!
Romney is already so far from conservative positions the only thing left of him is 0bastard. You think he’s wildly different from 0bastard on financial issues? To me, Romney appears to be a corporatist guy who wants to make money even if it is shady - from what I’ve read, some of his investments or connections have had to do with aborted baby disposal, Merriot hotels which showed (or maybe still do) porn in the TVs in the hotel, and another thing that escapes my memory. His positions on conservative social issues are so liberal, and any positions he takes “now” that appear conserative, appear as so much pandering.
He is utterly loathesome and so much worse even than McCain that just thinking and writing this causes my gorge to rise.
You ever heard “man does not live by bread alone”? This is not a sectarian belief, but the simple universal truth. A human with a full belly, a warm bed, clothes and a roof over his head is an animal if he has no morality.
“Divorcing social conservatism from fiscal conservatism is not only not possible, but loses elections. Why do the social conservatives always have to compromise, back down, give up, and let the hedonist “money is the only important thing” Republicans have their way with us? Why can’t THEY compromise with US? THEY FREAKING LOSE ELECTIONS!!!”
Amen!