Aside from flabbing their lips,and using it as a campaign tool, what have the Republican House & Senate or President Ever done on ‘Social Issues’?
There is nothing lower than weaponizing dead babies and little kids to attack your political opponents.
How about the partial-birth abortion ban? That’s a fairly recent example...
The answer: Nothing. Nor has NR. NR has always been embarrassed by conservatives motivated by concerns about social issues. They still are, and their latest attack on Trump is just more opportunistic twaddle. #NeverNR
“Aside from flabbing their lips,and using it as a campaign tool, what have the Republican House & Senate or President Ever done on ‘Social Issues’?”
I happen to be strongly pro-life, among other things. However, I cannot tell everyone reading this post how many hundreds of different people have, over the decades, told me that the can’t vote for the Republican candidate because of social issues. They agreed on foreign policy, defense policy, economic policy, etc., etc. - but they were so turned off by the image (in their minds, but isn’t that what counts?) that the Republicans wanted to control their lives.
Most of the social issues are things that a President, or even the federal government, have NO BUSINESS WHATSOEVER being involved in. Abortion should be a state-level issue. Who gets married to whom should be a state-level issue. Who goes into which bathroom should be a state-level, or local-level issue. What is taught (or not) in our schools should be a state-level issue.
If we Republicans/conservatives would simply stick to the issues that a President and the Congress should be involved in, and leave the rest to the side (for the state and local candidates), then we’d win every Presidential election, and control the Congress for decades. The Dems are DEAD WRONG on every issue of importance, and most people know it - so why give them a reason to vote for those Leftist hacks? Win the big elections, and by the act of leading this country the right way you will have a tremendous influence over social policy. It is a decades-long process, just as the moral degrading of our country was a project that took decades to accomplish. With little or no power to change the moral tone, we Republicans/conservatives will continue to fail.
Unfortunately, the whole bathroom issue is just another in a long litany of STUPID positions taken by our side. Now, just to be clear, I am HORRIFIED that some lecherous guy might go into the girls’ bathroom and leer at (or worse) my 14-year-old daughter. I am DEAD SET AGAINST this latest garbage from the godless Left. But how stupid do we have to be to fight it in this manner? How easy do we have to make it for the other side to make fun of how stupid we are? After all, HOW do you enforce this stuff? Do you have Bathroom Police? Do you force everyone entering a bathroom to show a birth certificate? This is a tailor-made, purely Alinskyite tactic, used ONCE AGAIN very successfully to make every conservative look like an ass. I, for one, am glad that Trump didn’t go after that bait just to pander for votes - and I am just as certain that he would NOT want guys going into the same bathroom as his wife, daughters or grand-daughters.
This is an argument NOT about goals, but about the MEANS by which those goals can, politically-speaking, be accomplished. You want to stop same-sex marriage, abortion, guys going into women’s showers, etc., etc.? Good, so do I - but you CANNOT do that when you’ve been losing the education battles since the 1960s, when we get the likes of Clinton and Obama as President, who lead by BAD and IMMORAL example. Putting the cart before the horse is no way to get down the road to your destination.
And the GOPe is infested with homosexuals as well!
We just seen Hastert busted for pedophilia