The Religious Right Is Not Happy With Republicans (Slate)

Tuesday, my colleague Will Saletan chronicled the various ways that Republican candidates are running away from "culture war" issues like gay marriage and reproductive rights. "Republicans are mumbling, cringing, and ducking," he notes, before providing a number of examples. "They don’t want the election to be about these issues, even in red states."

Saletan's not the only who noticed the sudden cowardice of Republican politicians on social issues. At this year's Values Voters Summit, held this past weekend, religious right leaders were showing fear of being left behind. "There was a palpable fear throughout the conference that the Republican Party is moving away from the Religious Right," writes Brian Tashman at Right Wing Watch. At one panel, social conservatives tried gallantly to argue that opposition to abortion and gay rights is actually somehow libertarian, because supporters of those rights are "using the government to impose this new, strange sexual orthodoxy." And at one point, Brian Brown from the National Organization for Marriage defensively said, "It's not our fault" that Republicans keep losing.

There is basically no difference between republicans and democrats. There is no way I would vote for 99% of the democrats, and if the republicans are almost identical, then why would I want to vote for them? I wouldn’t vote for 97% of the republicans. The other 3% I would happily vote for.

I am not a republican “first.” I do not value that R over and above anything else. I am a biblical conservative. That is the highest and overriding theme. Christ First. Kiss the Son lest he becomes angry.

Republicans (when I say “republicans” I am using the general term; not all republicans have the characteristics I am referring to when I use the general term “republicans”) have shown themselves to be anti-Christ. They support all the abominations that the democrats support. So why would I be happy with republicans?

I don’t support republicans, I support individuals that deserve Christian support, they may not even be Christian, but for my support, they will not support abominations. And they could be D, R, I, T, whatever... Support Christ and conservative classical biblical principles, and you could possibly have my support.

The US is becoming a country that is not worth defending.

Being a “man without a country” was once considered a fate tantamount to damnation, but many conservatives are now simply unmooring themselves from their country. It’s not my path, but it’s a rational response.

To paraphrase The Gipper: I didn't leave America; America left me. I can't bring myself to actually give up on this country, but we are surely headed the wrong way on so many different issues. Republicans for the most part don't seem to give a durn for anything but reaching out to the people who are destroying us. And then to add insult to injury every-time they lose, the conservatives take the blame. People will only put up with that for so long.

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