Posted on 02/02/2009 9:17:17 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior
Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee wants the GOP to reach out to candidates who support gay marriage and are pro-choice. Steele told Fox's Chris Wallace that it was "important" to reach out to those voters.
WALLACE: You are one of the co-founders of something called the Republican Leadership Council which supports candidates who favor abortion and gay rights.
STEELE: Yes.
(watch video)
WALLACE: Does the GOP needs to do a better job of reaching out to people who hold those views?
STEELE: I think -- I think that's an important opportunity for us, absolutely. Within our party we do have those who have that view as well as outside and my partnership with Christy Todd Whittman was an effort to build a bridge between moderates and conservatives.
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No, reaching out to them is not the thing to do: The thing to do is to uphold conservative values (even some values that may be at odds with some of their stances), and if they then decide to follow us: fine (then they hold other conservative values in higher reguard than their “gay” or “pro-choice” views), and are friends, but we should NEVER compromise on THESE PRINCIPLES (Any) E V E R@!
you are going to see the Republican party slide down the slippery slope by courting gay/pro-choiccers as once they jump board you bet your bottom dollars they will want to be represented 100% even though they would account for .01% of the total vote. The writing is on the wall, we have become the party of come one come all we want your vote above all else and our parties principals are secondary to winnin elections...
Welcome to the new and improved Republican party 2.0 complete with Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the next trendy idea that comes along. Don’t worry that the same RINO message is the same, this time for 2010 and 2012, it is a can’t lose, we have the INTERNETS!!!
great post
trouble is that even there are a couple here who are pro homo and pro abortion so even on this conservative website there are liberal republican supporters and while we have them then we will keep getting RINO’s
the homo’s know our platform, traditional marriage and homosexuality or it’s agenda of marriage, teaching in schools and adopting is not the platform of the GOP that is the Dem platform of which most of this country is against.
It was the war and the media which clouded their voting
God help us!
Well the way I see it is you’re going to have a demi-lite mee too party, RINO, big-corporate welfare party, then you’ll have a Libertarian-Consitutionalist-RR Conservative-Christian Party. And you’re right the RINO party will probably go the way of the WHIGS and ~Never~ win another election ~ever~ again!
I’m not religious but I find homosexuality disgusting as do most of the country.
I don’t fall the I know a homo and he is nice crap either, They are different people when they are with their own on their freak parades
It’s explicitly true, for the simple reason that we have 377,000 registered voters in CA.
Oh, I see. Life no longer goes with liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Choosing infanticide is synomous with freedom now! Wouldn’t the founders be surprised!
We need to be done with group think all together, we need to be about individualism, NOT VICTIM and group mentality!
He was chosen because he is black.
The Republicans are doing nothing but going tit for tat with the dems. Dems have Hillary Reps. have Sarah Palin (who I like btw), Dems have a black President, Reps. have a black Chairman of the GOP.
I know many people here love Michael Steele but whenever I’ve seen him, he’s seemed kind of wishy washy to me. It does not surprise me in the least that he wants to court the gay community and the pro-choice crowd.
You see, I guess I’m in the middle here.
I’m all for, 1)Strong Defense, low Taxes and the U.S. Constitution first,..
but I’m also Pro-Choice and believe Gay’s and Lesbians actually exist and aren’t some make believe mental illness. Not that they should be married, but we also shouldn’t keep their freedoms of life commitment away from them.
I am also Agnostic, not Atheist, I just can’t choose one of the 600,000 religions in the world yet but fully enjoy all of them just as much and their diversity.
This is why a definition of what is a Conservative/ Republican is can be fuzzy.
/left New England long ago
Funny, you have NOW changed from "proving" I called for the GOP to move left, to focusing on a one-liner I added at the end of a post.
No mention that by YOUR standards, Palin is pro-gay.
No mention that you LIED about me supposedly saying the GOP should go left.
So that's your big, final defense--you can't post A SINGLE CLIP "proving" I claimed the GOP should move to the left...so you say "Ha, no one's FReepmailed me!" in response to a wisecrack...and that proves...what?
But as you can see - I've pinged a few FReepers who have taken you to task. A few FReepers who have tried - as I have to point out the foolishness of your posts.
They have? They haven't posted anything to me.
Nothing, nada. Zip.
So again--where are all these cut-and-pastes of my words "proving" your lie that I have repeatedly said on this thread that we should move to the left?
Nothing. Nada. Zip.
Where is your proof that I didn't post that Palin did so because of the constitutionality--which I posted before you even brought it up?
Nothing. Nada. Zip.
Looks like you are outnumbered.
So far it's you and...you. And your constant shifting of your claims each time you are shown to be wrong.
You are not alone in voicing your support for Steele and his call for more gays and more pro-abortion voters.
What does "you are not alone" mean? I thought your point is I AM alone.
But you are in the minority. And you are wrong.
In my hoping more people can be converted to conservative beliefs, like Reagan?
If you want to be against Reagan, who went from pro-abortion to pro-life, from Democrat to Republican, I'll take being "alone" over being with people like you--who lie, and are caught looking stupid over and over again--any day.
But what do I know. I'm an idiot, huh?
I'm glad you finally admitted it.
You've been challenged on your lies.
You couldn't come up with any facts.
You stand exposed as a liar who doesn't know what he's talking about--insisting Palin's first veto WASN'T about same-sex partnerships, posting some completely unrelated thing about budgets, and when proved wrong say "Oh, I MEANT to do that."
At least you admit your idiocy, in a weird way, but at least you've done it.
Thanks for that, at least.
Game, set, and match to DW.
Bye. And please--let this be a lesson to you; next time, you really should look things up before shooting your mouth off and displaying your ignorance.
Try this:
http://www.freestateproject.org/
,
http://christianexodus.org/
two examples
http://www.republicoflakotah.com/
Ronald Reagan had a gay way back when on his staff when he was Governor, his attitude was live and let live.
What I don’t like ,and I am sure Reagan didn’t either, was extreme Left Wing in your Face gays and I am with him there.
But, if Palin is at the top of the (G.O.P.) ticket in 2012 I expect the AIP to support her.
From the Constitution:
“nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;” (5th amendment)
“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” (14th amendment)
The US Constitution acknowledges, and codifies, the fact that government has no legal authority to take life without due process of law-ie-the person is accused, tried, and convicted of a capital crime.
So, yes, conservatives are PROLIFE.
Conservatives are conserving US Constitutional law AND honoring God’s laws-which the Declaration of Independence & US Constitution set out to do as well.
Personhood *(universal personhood-Life, Liberty and “pursuit of happiness”) is the front to fight abortion on.
The Republican Party is not a conservative party, it is a moderate party. To the left is the Democrat Party, I am not sure which party is to the right of the Republicans.
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