Posted on 03/11/2014 2:08:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In case you were wondering why CPAC was so light on traditional-marriage rhetoric from the podium, here’s why. An event populated mainly by young conservatives and libertarians isn’t a good venue for that anymore.
You’ll hear more of it, I’m sure, at the convention two years from now. But at the rate we’re going, probably not too much more. Where will the 30-49 group be in 2016?
The most striking numbers there, actually, are how small the differences are between various Democratic age groups. It’s an astounding consensus to have 18-year-old and 65-year-old Dems both above 60 percent support and within 15 points of each other on a practice that was barely on the cultural radar 20 years ago. Makes me wonder how many senior-citizen votes the GOP picked up over the last decade as the 65+ demographic sorted itself out. And how many younger votes it lost.
Pew’s not the only pollster lately showing majority support for gay marriage among young GOPers, either. A few weeks ago, the NYT/CBS poll found 56 percent of Republicans under the age of 45 in favor of legalized SSM. (Just 29 percent of Republicans age 45 or older agreed.) That’s a rare case of sharp disagreement on an issue among different conservative age demographics. The same poll found the two groups within five points of each other on guns, abortion, the minimum wage, and ObamaCare, The only other prominent outlier was — ta da — marijuana legalization, where 43 percent of younger Republicans support legalization versus only 28 percent of older ones.
Exit question: Given Republican sensitivity to changing demographics and the fact that millennials might be more gettable next time than last, is there a single major 2016 candidate who’s likely to spend much time on gay marriage on the stump? The only one I can think of is Huckabee, who may calculate that his only path to victory is consolidating social conservatives. Everyone else, including social cons like Cruz and Rubio, will probably take a federalist approach to traditional marriage.
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14”For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are FEW who find it. Matthew 7: 13-14
Why not just blame the masses for buyin into the garbage that is popular culture? The elite in Turkey were anti-religious for decades but the masses remaine quite the opposite. In the US, the masses have bought into gay marriage, feminism, no-fault divorce, non-judgementalism, etc. Lemming indeed...
“Why not just blame the masses for buyin into the garbage that is popular culture? The elite in Turkey were anti-religious for decades but the masses remaine quite the opposite. In the US, the masses have bought into gay marriage, feminism, no-fault divorce, non-judgementalism, etc. Lemming indeed...”
They bought into it because it was jammed down their throats. I do blame them also but there is just so much you can expect from people who have to work hard and dont have time to keep up with things.
Homosexuals don’t reproduce....they recruit.
At this point they are trying to maintain control of undeveloped and impressionable youth and spoon-feed them misinformation, lies and half-truths about dangerous, disordered and extremely risky behaviors, then they can control the future and ensure that those behaviors are not only fully accepted, but celebrated.
I do not disagree, I just believe a lot more vitriol is in order at these outrages.
wow, I don’t know where to begin with your post. It doesn’t make you conservative to not believe in welfare, food stamps or other forms of government support. Or paying taxes; even the Constitution provides for that. There’s a place for a government safety net, even for conservatives.
And you miss the point with homosexuals; it’s not conservative to hate people as you apparently think. It’s conservative to accept the fact that they exist but to not destroy our institutions and to promote them and their disordered sexual acts as acceptable civilized behavior.
You’re the reason that so many people believe that conservatives are mean and evil.
Because it’s not that big of a deal.
Because they don’t want to be called homophobes and bullied by gay mafia. They’re cowards who can’t stand up for what they really believe.
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