The central reason the Rinos took over and the mess we are in economically is that value voters decoupled from their economic conservative goals. All the rinos had to to was throw us a meaningless bone of anti-abortion or anti-stem embryoic cell research and we voted for them. Socialists then took over both parties. Including Mr. Bush who took over education in “no child left behind” and who expanded medicare to drugs. In addtion, while adding all this spending with wars, he cut taxes and balooned the deficit. He did not raise effective heck about the banksters crashing the real estate market. Conservatives let that all be okay. No more!
Family values votes aren’t “meaningless” or “mere bones.” God is more likely to bless a country whose rulers don’t grok business economics than one whose rulers directly count life as cheap.
Sara you are exactly right. I’m tired of it. I’m tired of far left liberal Republicans getting to masquerade as “Moderates” when they are no such thing. They like their leftist counterparts want radical change. They say they don’t care about social issues but in truth they do care about social issues and fiscal issues very much they just are masters of deception misleading the public into thinking they are harmless which they do by avoiding debate and talking around where they really stand on issues. I thought we had learned this year. Some of the comments and the behavior of the conservative media just proves they are just second string to the mainstream media. They are only brave when it is easy and when it is not they are absent except for a few like Mark Levin who have went out on the limb for what he believed in bringing on his show conservative candidates even long shot ones. What I find really sad are races like this one in Illinois. There is such a great opportunity for those like us and the Tea Party. If a conservative libertarian can’t win with 3 liberals splitting the vote in Illinois then we should give up on the state. I feel the same about the Massachusetts Governors race. Its another one where a big govt William Weld liberal insider was trotted out in Charlie Baker. He even has a gay activist on his ticket who is on the record saying “there is no difference between the Republican and Democrat party in Massachusetts” or something to that effect. I support Tim Cahill in that race because he is an honest man and he was ahead of Baker till the RGA smeared him. No I’m not an R-bot. There is no place in the a liberty loving Republican party that respects founding principles for Mark Kirks and Charlie Bakers. True conservatism is on the rise because we are not compromising. We have a historic election coming up on Nov 2nd and in so many ways we are squandering a good portion of our blessings because of tired old Republican Machiavellian crap and those of us who thinks that in the end we are going to be able to trust the GOP to do the right thing after Nov 2nd are naive but I’m sure the same ones who defend Mark Kirk will be there in line to get their butt kissing in. Then they will be lining up behind someone like Mitt Romney while running whispering campaigns against conservatives because we know “they just can’t win”.
54% of the electorate is self identified conservatives up from 40%. Moderate vote share is shrinking.
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/10/08/gallup-54-of-likely-voters-are-self-identified-conservatives-only-18-consider-themselves-lobotomized-obamabots/