Evolutionism isn’t a policy or governing philosophy.
Evolutionism doesn’t increase wealth and opportunity, or protect our liberties.
Evolutionism doesn’t keep government accountable to the people.
Trying (as Johnson appears to be doing) to turn the conservative movement into a giant crevo thread is about as smart as making UFO reasearch a major conservative priority. Talk about losing focus...and I say that as a six day creationist.
I agree. Neither creationism nor evolution is a governing philosophy.
That’s my point. Look at the post I was responding to.
The GOP should remain proud social conservatives, but Republicans are going to have to start running on something else.
Republicans are going to have to start doing some heavy lifting, educating the public about economics and wealth creation, about the source and nature of our liberties, about what Big Government statism means to their lives. Republicans are again going to have to make the case that more often than not, the government solution is worse than the problem.
Instead Republicans have become knee-jerk and intellectually lazy, the way Democrats used to be. It’s a sad day when it is the Democrats who have all the ideas and present a thoughtful case for them and the Republicans are the ones whose first and only instinct is to resort to fear tactics and wedge issues. This is what the Democrats did for 40 years while Republicans like William F. Buckley and later Rush Limbaugh were developing intellectual arguments for conservatism. Where did the conservative braintrust go? As Rush says, the blueprint is there. But it seems the GOP leadership doesn’t have the courage or wisdom to follow it. They may not even be aware it exists, or perhaps they just don’t believe in it. This is why it is time for new leadership in the GOP.