I didn't support Goldwater's Republican party. That was a monumental disaster. I supported Reagan's.
Posted on 04/17/2009 1:01:30 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
McCain Strategist Warns GOP Risks Becoming 'Religious Party' Steve Schmidt urges Republicans to begin voicing more support for civil unions and gay rights.
FOXNews.com
Friday, April 17, 2009
John McCain's top adviser from the presidential campaign urged fellow Republicans on Friday to warm up to gay rights and warned that the GOP risks becoming the "religious party" with its opposition to same-sex marriage.
Steve Schmidt, in his first political appearance since the election, spoke at the Washington, D.C., convention for the Log Cabin Republicans -- a grassroots group for gay and lesbian Republicans.
He urged Republicans, in the near-term, to endorse civil unions and stop using the Bible as rationale for gay-marriage opposition.
"If you put public policy issues to a religious test, you risk becoming a religious party," he said. "And in a free country a political party cannot be viable in the long-term if it is seen as a sectarian party."
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Thanks Reagan Man.
They are not. There is an article in the Washington Times today that states the Republicans just reported a first quarter debacle while the Dims are raking in the cash.
I wonder when, or even if, the Republicans will start to understand they will disintegrate unless they become conservative again.
Not.
Steve Schmidt is not a “Republican”, I have been convinced it was he who did the trashing of Palin to Carl Cameron... and it was he who didn’t let McCain run the campaign we all wanted him to run (well he and McCain’s long time speech writer friend).... People need to know it was Steve Schmidt who ran Arnold Schwarzenegger’s re-election campaign and made him move to the left to win that election and told him he needed to govern more to the left as well... it worked in CA and Schmidt evidently felt it would work in fly-over country (something Schmidt clearly doesn’t understand yet).
If you are trying to push the GOP Big-Tent garbage, it will not work.
What needs to happen is that the important issues of each conservative faction need to be supported:
1. For Social Conservatives, Pro-Life and Heterosexual Marriage.
2. For Fiscal Conservatives, limited government
3. For Neo-Cons or those who want a strong Military, give them what they want.
4. For States Rights people, focus on that, but without leaving out the two primary issues important to the Social Conservatives.
There is a sweet spot concerning the issues where the important issues are all addressed.
It just means that one group cannot tell another group they can’t have what is important to them. Reagan managed to do this, we can and must do it again.
Well most people in this Nation identify themselves as Conservative in present polling and hussein and his ilk are instilling so much pain in the populace that their days are numbered. The repubic party can take advantage of this and win... but not by endorsing butt piracy and infanticide. Ignore you CONSERVATIVE REDNECK HILLBILLY BASE and you will lose! Ignore who it is that we are and what it is that we truly believe and the repubic party will die.
If the worst comes to pass... Patriots will fight to our last breath to see that at least some of America lives under GOD and the Founder's intent. Don't believe me... watch and see. Molan Labe!
LLS
I still think McCain was a shill for “The Divine One.”
That's not what they're demanding. They're demanding a revolutionary change in society, with government tampering with a traditional institution that has existed for thousands of years. Often this tampering is done by raw government power over the objections of the electorate. And then they demand a whole plethora of expansions of government power to force business owners, private landlords, private organizations, and even private individuals to “accommodate” their chosen lifestyle. They demand access to our kids’ minds, and access to kids themselves via change in adoption law. Once they get that, they demand that people who won't turn kids over to homosexuals be forced out of the adoption business. They demand speech codes prohibiting any expressed opposition to their behavior. They try to force their way into every private nook and cranny of society.
Yet, people here act like these totalitarian freaks are Goldwaterites circa 1964.
I don't agree with much of your post. But, I would add that it's also about the tax code, specifically the inheritance tax code. If a gay dies and wants to give his estate to his gay partner without the federal and state government taking over half of it, I don't have a problem with it.
If a gay is in a hospital and his/her gay partner won't be admitted because they're not family, I have a problem with that.
I think my biggest problems with Gay marriage, or civil unions, but gay marriage in particular, is the hidden language that's written into some of these laws. For instance, because of gay marriage legislation in Massachusetts, the Catholic Services had to shutter because of the adoption rules that the state imposed - that's wrong. And, that goes to your point about the gay mafia legislating acceptance of the gay lifestyle in the heterosexual community.
I'm Catholic. I believe that two men in flagrante delicto probably puts them on the hell express. But, as an American citizen, I don't believe it's my problem nor is it my responsibility to ensure their eternal salvation. If they want to live in an religiously abhorrent way, that's their problem, not mine. And, if they want some of the priviliges that married, or common-law couples enjoy, I'm not going to loose any sleep over it.
Incidentally, I believe my position is very close, if not identical to Dick Cheney's - hardly a liberal.
Schmitd’s sister is gay and from what I’ve read this is and has been very personal with him — and like I said above — this is his beef with Palin and if we all knew the full truth he probably had a lot more influence on Megan McCain’s currently confused thinking than many of us really know.
I am still waiting to meet a Republican who voted for McCain in a primary outside of Arizona.
This is phrased very well! Another great phrase that has appeared on FR in this same vein:
It amazes me that that liberals can see beyond their differences and vote for each other’s perversions, but conservatives can't see beyond our own agendas and vote for each other’s virtues.
Suck it hard Schmidt. Just because you got to have coffee a couple times with Rove and breath some of his exhalation, does not give you any more credibility than a crack whore telling us she is disease free.
Be gone.
CORRECTION: It should have read "I don't DISAGREE with much of your post."
My apologies.
Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Words are not defined by governments or States, they have, or in some cases now had specific meanings. Once you start changing definitions to meet certain group movements, everything is up for grabs.
Let's take a look at how the word regulated in the 2nd amendment and how the meaning has been distorted to justify gun control, the meaning of the word as defined in it's time no longer applies hence the battle we now face for the only right we have that shall not be infringed. We could also look at how changing word definitions could/would alter the meanings of contracts, but I think you see my point
Altering semantics is a common ploy of the left and but another reason this cannot pass.
I guess it shouldn’t surprise us that John would hire someone like this. Whose idea was it to pull Palin in then? They must have realized John would tank without her.
“Just because Steve Schmidt has a lesbian sister doesn’t mean I should change my beliefs to satisfy him!”
Agreed. I see, I didn’t know that about him, it’s that ‘tribal’ identity thing again. I’ve got family that are liberal fools, too, doesn’t mean I want my country run like they think. Their thinking is quite primitive.
LOL
In bold for emphasis. Schmidt and teletubby Meghan can go bite a pillow.
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