So to be a Conservative you have to believe in God? And since RINO means Republican In Name Only, does that also mean to be a “Real” Republican you also have to believe in God?
Your comment just points out the problem with the Republican Party as currently constituted. If you do not agree with the Social Conservative agenda of religious Republicans you are not a real Republican.
But unlike you however, I have no problem with people believing in God, I just don’t believe myself. I don’t think that people who believe in God are not true Conservatives or Republicans or whatever. Your religious faith is unimportant to me. It is someones political philosophy I am interested in.
Keeping up this attitude will drive away even more people from the Republican Party. If you want to be “pure” and losers that is fine with me. I would rather have half a loaf than none at all.
To be a conservative, as the term is understood in the United States, it’s nearly impossible to be so while also being hostile to those who believe in God. “Real” Republicans support the party “planks” that are socially conservative. They’re there for a reason, because a large number demand it.
If you spend as much time and exertion on demanding fiscal conservatism as we spend on demanding social conservatism, we’d be getting somewhere. Everyone has priorities.
I don’t like paying high taxes, and I don’t like government seeping into every facet of daily life. History shows that this will lead to religious persecution, and we’re beginning to get more than just an inkling that history is about to repeat itself. This is where our interests coincide. It’s the basis of our political coalition.
Absolutely, what you want is a winning party made up of Libertarians and RINO's, the fact that the party has to sell its soul matters little to you.
We have a long line of losers that agree with you. GW was a narrow exception, less than 50% of the vote, but he was certainly no conservative.
I am not saying one has to be Christian to be conservative, but John Adams certainly thought it wa important.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798 John Adams "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.