Posted on 08/26/2004 6:26:18 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
Some GOP'ers have a message for Britney Spears: Stay home.
The belly baring pop star is being courted to attend the Republican in New York next week, according to the Chicago Sun Times, and that has sparked outrage among some conservative groups.
'Through her immature antics, Ms. Spears has probably done more to undermine sexual morality than all of the misguided legislation introduced in the United States over the past decade,' the Illinois Family Institute wrote in an e-mail to members.
'It would be the height of hypocrisy for a party that claims to represent wholesome values to celebrate her.'
Citing Spears lesbian smooch with Madonna, her 'general immodesty,' and her annulled 56 hour marriage to childhood friend Jason Alexander in Las Vegas, the group is urging Republicans to call the GOP convention hotline to protest any appearance by Spears.
The IFI isnt the only conservative group that wants Britney to stay away from the GOP convention.
'I do hope she won't be there,' Andrea Lafferty of the Traditional Values Coalition tells the scoop.
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Britney could raise the ratings and help with fund-raising. I'm sure the party leaders wouldn't get all high and mighty about whether she is worthy of being a Republican, they need to reach people, and Britney would help.
I think Cooper has the right perspective: ""If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."
For the reasons given by Cooper, we don't need Alice Cooper and we don't need Britney Spears. Only morons need people like that in order to decide how to vote. Is the republican party willing to compromise their principles in order to attract the moron vote?
Hey, votes is votes.
Now, seriously, if you think that we can elect a candidate just with the base alone, you're wrong.
I think Jessica Simpson might be a better example, but we shouldnt bar folks just because they may have made some bad decisions.
I would rather appeal to the moron vote and get a President who does believe in our values and will implement conservative principles (not to mention conservative Supreme Court Justices!!), than fail to appeal to the moron vote and get stuck with President John Kerry!
If you get up on stage dressed like a slut and simulate sex acts, then what should I call Ms. Spears? A wholesome teenage idol?
The purpose for bringing Britney Spears to the convention would be to appeal to those who idolize Britney Spears. Britney has demonstrated a flagrant disregard for purity and has done much to bring down the moral climate of our culture. In that sense she is no better or worse than many of her peers. Calling her a "slutbag" is perhaps a bit over the top. But then calling her a "role model" for our youth is ludicrous. She is not a "role model". She is the very symbol of our national moral decay.
IF the republicans feel they need to cater to that decay in order to win, then I believe they have lost. We are a party of ideas not people. We are a party of principle not popularity. We ought to appeal to people's intellect and their sense of honor, duty and country and not to their purient interests and their sense of sight.
But then I've been wrong before. How about you?
I'll take a lap dance too :-)
The pubbies are never going to get the moron vote. Most morons dont vote. The ones that do vote will invariably vote for the democrat because "democrats care about people and all republicans care about is big corporations". Then when they are done they go punch a clock at Microsoft or General Motors and complain that they don't make enough money.
Not for nothing, but I think business success has little, if anything, to do with morality or a just moral climate. In fact, I'd wager the opposite were true: the less hung up on morals a businessman is, the more money he can make.
Thanks Tony.
BTW, do you think I'm over the top with the "slutbag" comment? Is that an "un-Christian" thing to say?
If so, what should I call a person who dresses like a prostitute and simulates sex acts on stage?
She's a silly little piece of eye-candy who happens to be the flavor of the moment. I have no problem with your language---it's what she wants dirty old men like me to think she is, but it's such a marketing put-on, it's really quite sad.
" Hot Women is not a bad image for a political party....."
Wipe off all the cosmetics and rinse the hair dye , etc ...and what you end up with is a trailer-park trash broad pure and simple .
Who do you think wins elections? We may run the pillars of the community as candidates, but they don't win without the "common man" vote.
In 1998 I was helping Ernie Fletcher in his second Congressional race in Kentucky. In 1996 he had done well, but come up a little short. In '98 we went to a small town to campaign. The contact in that town started out by saying, "Ernie, you won the saint vote two years ago with no problems. They're your friends and they're supporting you this year too. But you need more to win. Today, I'm introducing you to some sinners!" We went around half that afternoon speaking to people in liquor stores, pool halls, etc. And by golly, he won that county, which he didn't do in '96!!
I'll never forget that as one of my greatest lessons in politics.
"(You don't mean Raquel Welch, do you?)"
I do! sorry, Something under the desk raised the keyboard while I was thinking of her and trying to type. LOL
I must have missed the memo, but when exactly did the GOP or any party become the lone repository of and defender of "wholesome values"? LOL...
Perhaps we should put a "morality meter" or something outside of each polling place on election day to prevent "unwholesome" Americans for voting for the GOP.
Why don't you just move to South Carolina and set up your little slice of Heaven on Earth and leave the rest of us alone, allright?
Ted Nugent probably has some tales to tell from his younger days..
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Is Brit "showing" yet?
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