Evangelicals wouldn't have had to complain so loudly had they been listened to between elections. The RINOs want us in their coalition but don't want to make any concessions on issues that are important to evangelicals.
Values voters (ie practicing Catholics and Evangelicals) were the key change in the country's political alignment in the Reagan revolution. Reagan brought a lot of former dems into the party that way. My observation is that Values voters are generally also in favor of tax decreases, smaller government, devolving power to state governments, and pursuing the WOT. OTOH, moderate R's are generally in favor of higher taxes, larger government, and a nuanced approach to the WOT. Undecideds are even worse than the moderate R's. Have your coalition with them and watch taxes go up and the federal gov grow at twice it's currently unacceptable pace.
So what Armey really wants to do is toss the strongest support for smaller government out in the name of smaller government. Armey's a smart guy but he's way off base on this.
One more point, I run the GOTV for a large swing county. It's those folks you and Armey so despise that stuff envelopes, walk precincts, and man the phone banks. 90 plus percent. Good luck finding RINO's or moderates willing to work. I've had no luck in that regard.
"I run the GOTV for a large swing county. It's those folks you and Armey so despise that stuff envelopes, walk precincts, and man the phone banks."
That's true here. I volunteered countless evenings manning the phone banks for President Bush and walking/driving door to door passing out literature to registered voters.
EVERYONE there at the hall was a pro-life Christian conservative, working for GWB because he was going to stop the rush towards liberalism in this country.
If there had been a Giuliani-type running I know not one of us there would have raised a finger to help him, seeing as he supports abortion, gay marriages and ewants to outlaw handgun ownership in this country.
Ed
Agreed. I was thinking the same thing when I read those comments. It would seem the idea of small government died with the Bush administration, as recently suggested by Fred Barnes. So why isn't Dick Armey whining about them?