[puroresu]

It’s true that the country club Republicans have been around longer than the social conservatives. But that’s because no one until the 1960s was trying to use federal power to force abortion, the homosexual agenda, militant secularism, leftist public school indoctrination, and other such things on the populace. The rise in the religious right was in response to that threat. When that threat arose, the Democrats endorsed it, seeing it as a way to amass federal power and push America left by creating a culturally Marxist society. The country club Republicans yawned and looked the other way because all they cared about was taxes and spending. If it hadn’t been for the religious right, we’d be much further to the left than we are today.

[Leisler]

Plenty of Country Club Republicans, like Mitt’s parents, were for Planned Parenthood, gay rights, forced busing( Only working class white neighborhoods). High taxes and regulations supported existing business and provide entries to barriers from competition. Many Republican businessmen have no problem with using taxes and regulations to line their pockets. Lawyers and farmers come to mind. Real estate types like to use tax money to build stadiums to boost their city, a la, GW Bush, although I think they got the citizens to vote for it( not sure ).