Posted on 06/26/2015 8:10:10 AM PDT by Signalman
I think there is a distinct possibility that these two disastrous rulings by the USSC may have finally woken up the sleeping Silent Majority.
The libs are dancing in the streets now but in Nov. 2016, they may be regret getting what they wished for.
The fact is that most blacks and Latinos are against gay marriage.
I think the Dems are in for a major defeat in 2016, on all fronts.
Maybe I'm being optimistic. But I don't think so.
I do remember the palpable anger against the Democrat party in Miami’s Cuban community in 2000...because of the Elian Gonzalez debacle.
Bush won Florida by 537 votes...and I am convinced this is because there was a mobilized, angry Cuban community.
But it was a close shave, even with all that anger.
We’ll see.
The December 1944-January 1945 major offensive called the battle of the Bulge by the German Nazi regime was thought to be a winnable victory but turned out to be a major defeat of the Germans.
Their celebration is just a hollow victory.
God is still on his throne.
My voting in 2016 will likely be limited to state contests.
However, if Cruz is the GOP nominee he will have my vote.
It isn’t likely that I will vote for a rep or senator ever again.
My state of FL has joined a couple of others in the Convention of States movement; that is where my interest and efforts will go.
I don’t know. I’d like to think so. But I don’t know.
First we need a leader. Someone to take charge without owing everyone and his relative a political favor
In Florida, we have retention votes. It is a good thing! However, on the SCOTUS level, won’t it take an amendment to the Constitution? If it does, well, BRING IT ON!
You are correct but many here will vehemently deny it until the day they die (which probably isn't very far away in certain cases).
I went to a hot-rod car show this morning. Turnout was not all that great, partly because of the high temps but also due to the diminishing numbers of 60-somethings who restore and show these mid-century cars. These guys are mostly conservative. I suspect after the owners reach 70 or so many of the cars stay home in the garage. A little while longer and these guys and their wives won't even be voting. Younger car enthusiasts tend to go import or modern muscle car. Different shows and different politics and morals for the affluent millenials.
Time for a revival of the Tea Party movement with active visible protest events opposing gay marriage, Obamacare, shamnesty, and other key aspects of leftist idiocy all around the country.
Where has the Tea Party been for the last few years in terms of public visibility? You can understand the negative impact of the Obama IRS tyranny, but that has to be overcome.
Working, looking for work, struggling to make ends meet...
Oh, absolutely.
People opposing gay marriage are a tiny minority in the country right now. And it is a non-issue now. It will never go back.
Now the fight will be to allow true religious freedom. We need to fight FAR harder for that. If the country thinks gay marriage legality everywhere is freedom, they need to be reminded that freedom has to be for EVERYONE.
OUR FIGHT NOW NEEDS TO BE TO PROTECT RELIGION. PERIOD.
I agree. This was evidenced in the elections of 2008 and 2012.In addition to that, each year a class of indoctrinated robots are graduated from high schools and colleges across the United States. And probably 90% or more vote Democrat the first few times they vote.
Wow, so you are comparing this leftist "victory" to the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge? Wish I could be so optimistic for the future!
Do you think if there was resistance we would hear about it? This is how they operate, make the masses believe that the majority of people are for their agenda, which silences dissent.
Not until we see the rise of an opposition party. Some of us here are trying to encourage one, but others seem to insist on voting for GOP-E.
The tea party has been shamed. The left framed it very well. Now plenty of conservatives don’t want to be associated with “racist nuts.” It’s sad.
We need to start something completely different, like applying this new ruling to gun laws or whatever. While it’s fresh, see if the ruling is consistent. If I can conceal carry in one state, now I can everywhere, right? Etc with other laws the libs don’t like.
But it was a close shave, even with all that anger.
But how much of that "close shave" was due to 'Rat cheating at the polls in every which way (then having the gall to claim that their voters were "suppressed"), including their media calling the state for Gore before the polla in Central time Zone (predominantly Republican) were closed to deliberately discourage voters there from casting their ballots?
The 'rat Party is the enemy of fair election procedure, yet the timid GOP takes being the target of robbery like a bunch of pansies, for the most part.
Yep yep. Sad it is.
gay marriage?
Dick Armey:
“Where did the revolution go astray? How did we go from the big ideas and vision of 1994 to the cheap political point-scoring on meaningless wedge issues of today — from passing welfare reform and limited government to banning horsemeat and same-sex marriage?”
most tea party leaders and paid staff are not interested in the “social issues”.
With respect, you’re wasting your time and your breath. Electoral politics is a game of three card monte, and we’re the suckers. An excellent example of this is 2014. Now why did we show up and vote? To get the likes of boehner and mcconnell? If that’s what success means, I’ll take a pass.
I’m more and more coming from the position that the way to implement conservatism and freedom is to be conservative and free in your daily life. It doesn’t require permission from the kleptocrats.
“It’ll be different this time” is the mantra of the battered wife, not a free people. There is little to be gained from electoral politics.
I have to take issue with that. "Gay Marriage" (the concept is so inane!) has never won in any state in a popular referendum on the issue!
How can the population be so brainwashed and intimidated so that opponents of this absolute idiocy are reduced to a bunch of passive bystanders as you contend? Aside from the religious conflicts "gay marriage" portends, there are obvious deleterious economic and social consequences of "gay marriage" that the media are very reluctant to mention. Marital status affects an individual's duties and benefits with with respect to quite a number of federal and state laws and private contracts.
Clearly, contrary to the foolish opinion of the SCOTUS majority, the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection clauses were never meant to be relevant to this issue.
This is the SCOTUS destroying the meaning of the Constitution just to satisfy the wishes of a small minority of powerful activists, another reminder of the Left's desire to rewrite the Constitution by judicial fiat. A haymaker of a punch against the rule of law in the United States!
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