True. This is doubly true when it comes to abortion. Most people abhor the practice, but also empathize with destitute women who find themselves pregnant.
There is also an unspoken and sinister motive among the country club Republicans that no one talks about but everyone recognizes: given what we pay to subsidize an urban disadvantaged kid, publicly-funded abortion is a smart expenditure on a cost/benefit basis.
Religious types would never think this way; other Republicans like to believe about themselves that they do not think this way, but in the end they vote that way.
That is the dirty little secret about the Republican Party.
Do you really believe this? Who would you cite as being as having this point of view?
You see very clearly my friend - you see very clearly.
I can plead guilty to your description myself. I am sorry to say, but I do plead guilty.
I believe you are right. And I would go further. I believe there is hypocrisy in the other positions also.
Think those same movers and shakers want the “mob” to have uninfringed gun rights?
Or that they hold the same contempt for gays?
It used to be that all candidates ran with some rote slogans thrown to Jews about supporting Israel. Last example was Bush’s promise to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem. Did he believe it when he got the Jewish cheers? I imagine just as much as he believed that there would be the enactment of a marriage Amendment because he “supports” one- with a wink to Mary Cheney’s dad.
It used to be that they threw true believers to the lions. Now they throw tainted meat to the true believers. And the believers are just as hungry as were those lions.
It’s all pathetic pandering to those who want to believe.
Sometimes a true believer is a candidate. On the Left a Kucinich, on the Right a Hunter. The have the identical chance of being elected. And if by some miracle, everyone else- candidates and voters alike after a meteor hits Earth- dying maybe, they get elected, they too will “moderate” to the norm.
But when an accomplished successful honest man, or as honest as a politician can be, comes along and tells you what is without treating the electorate like children to be told fairy tales, some are vitriolic that he burst their fantasy.
And who can blame them. Fantasy beats reality every time.