"What difference does it make?"
I thought they already had.
Dumpe social issues?
hum?
Like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.....sure why not, what good are they anyway.
This implies that they didn’t already dump them...not to mention every other type of issue.
No! They should DEFINE them.
and all those voters with them?
//the Republican Party can afford to marginalize . . . Christian right leaders because evangelical social conservatives . . . are not going to vote Democratic.” //
Newsflash...some of us don’t vote Republican anymore either.
They dumped us a long time ago, Romney was the last straw. It is time to dump them for a CONSERVATIVE party and let them go the way of the whigs.
I am a Christian first, a conservative second, and left the GOP and joined the Constitution party.
Hell NO!
Should the GOP keep selling out . . . ? What’s left to sell? They’ve all but signed their souls on the infernal dotted line in their own blood.
Absolutely NOT!!!
The "social issues" would be properly addressed if "conservatives" would quit voting for statism and collectivism at the federal level. Look where were are now - about 3 X the global GDP in debt - $150+ TRILLION and counting.
Run for office or elect conservatives at the state and local level where social issues can be lawfully addressed.
The GOP should focus on the budget and related economic issues. The cost of government is leading to many social ills.
But, the GOP will not focus on the budget and related economic issues because they are pigs at the trough not interested the least in reducing the size of government.
i don’t care , i am done with ‘em as a whole. until rino leadership is gone and conservatives run it, i’m done with em as a group.
Should the GOP dump social issues?
***Speaking as a socon, they already have. The GOP is on the same road the Whigs were on when the Republican party was formed. How many Whigs do you know today? The GOP is similarly doomed.
From my home page...
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I’m a big tent republican.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1821435/posts?page=18455
Here’s an analogy to work with. Take a small box and fill it with some rocks. Then add some rice, filling it to the top. Now take all the same stuff, but in a different order. Put in the rice first, then add the rocks. What you’ll find is that if you put in the big stuff first, the small stuff will fit around it. But if you put in the small stuff first, the big stuff won’t have room. The republican tent is the box. The Big issues are the socon issues, to be put in first. The little issues are things that can be accommodated around the bigger stuff. A candidate who tries to focus on the smaller issues first and leave out the bigger issues has no way of getting all of us into the tent. He splits the party. The candidate who gets the big stuff right and as much of the little stuff that will fit, he can fit more into the tent. We’re often amazed at how much rice can keep fitting in. Folks such as Rudy or Romney flunk some of the big issues, and on some of the little issues it looks to me like anyone else’s rice would do just as well. All that remains for us to agree on is which are the bedrock principles and which are not. Why would there be so much invective aimed at rudy or romney from the right? Because there are some bedrock principles that he is leaving out. Bad move. I see rudybot and romneybot postings all the time saying that they would vote for Hunter or Palin, and I see socon postings that say they would not vote for rudy or romney. That’s a BIG indicator of a few bedrock principles that are being left outside the tent in order to let in some rice.
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"What difference does it make?"
Only if they wish to win women’s votes.
The GOP doesn't have to dump social issues; they just need people who can argue their case like mature adults.
If the social issues had been debated from a constitutional perspective, the culture war would have been won forty years ago. The right to life would have been preserved as a 4th Amendment guarantee. Ditto the other blatant abuses of Amendments 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, and 10.
The GOP doesn’t even stand up for the constitution. The GOP is statist pure and simple.
However, conservatives should drop the marriage thing; we’ve lost. We let them control the verbiage and they got us. Gay marriage is out of the tube and no one is getting it back in. It’s a question of when.
We have a real chance with abortion. If diversity is to be praised, then we need to consider the human rights of the old and the very young on the same level. Grandpa might not be convenient when he’s got alzheimers and the kids are busy with their own families. A baby on the way when you’re not married etc is also not convenient. But they both have rights.
We need to fight more for religious freedom for Christians. Jews and Muslims enjoy a certain deference for their religions in USA public life. Christians do not. At my local mall, a “White Rabbit” came for the last few weekends. Gd forbid they call him an Easter bunny. Passover is allowed to speak its name: no one calls it Flat Cracker Week. During Ramadan no one has to say The One Where We Eat Only After Sundown. But we have Holiday Trees and White Rabbits so as not to offend non Christians with the actual names of their holiday.
Sme of these social issues are pure freedom issues and we need to keep fighting for them.
Lifestyle choice is freedom. If people can marry anyone they like, then people should also be free to homeschool, to raise their children in any religion, and to refuse medical treatment or eat weird things.
It’s all about the constitution. Liberty.
You destroy Virtue, you collapse civil society.
“Free Republics need to promote public Virtue.” (Montesquieu). The only purpose for “education” is to teach Virtue (all Founders and goes back to Socrates).
Sex Ed in public schools is destroying the morality of children. Google Lukacs and how he collapsed Hungary with Sex Ed.
All economic disasters come from a immoral society-—you can’t have an flourishing economy if there is no trust.
That is why the Marxists try to group everyone and make them hate each other. Fear is essential to totalitarian society. (Montesquieu).
That aside. You can’t promote Vice-—it corrupts the next generation.\
All Marxism promotes Vice-—so we need a police state.
No, might not vote Democrat, but might not just vote - at all. At some point, they're gonna start shooting instead of voting.