Posted on 07/25/2009 11:40:35 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Can this political marriage be saved?
BY GARY BAUER
Psychologists have discovered that the most important factor in predicting whether a marriage will succeed or fail is the existence of contempt. When one or both partners display contempt -- the intense feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior -- the union, ultimately and almost inevitably, will fail.
Psychologist John Gottman has even developed a methodology that enables him to predict divorce with an astonishingly high degree of accuracy, up to 90 percent. While watching a couple interact, Mr. Gottman looks for the subtle signs -- microexpressions such as an eye roll or a patronizing tone -- that reveal not just displeasure or disapproval, but also the hostile inflexibility that is a hallmark of contempt.
As a political analyst and Republican of more than 30 years, I am saddened to say this, but contempt has contaminated the Republican Party. And much of the contempt has been directed at one partner in the party's marriage, religious conservatives. If the Republican partnership is to survive, the contempt must end.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
So you do want the federal government to restrict and limit homosexuals and their practices in the military?
That 8% “gay” military?
You aren’t a crusader. Good enough for me. I’m anti-abortion too, but there’s not much we can do about it.
4rcane is pro-abortion, what made you think that he wasn’t?
So you do want the federal government to restrict and limit homosexuals and their practices in the military?
That 8% “gay” military?
In post #99, I asked you a question that you have yet to answer. Answer that, and I’ll provide you with a clear-cut answer for your most recent question since your level of reading comprehension missed it.
As you were! That’s post 100 that I asked you what you meant by “your types”. Answer that, please.
I guess we have to assume that you want to use federal power to go toward blocking homosexual freedoms in the military to protect the military from the damage that the gay culture would bring to it and it’s “8% Gay” members.
Noted, thanks!
Palin is an imperfect human being with flaws, but so is Romney, Jindal, Gingrich, Huckabee, and who ever else will seek the GOP nomination. At this point I don't see any potential GOP candidate that can generate the huge crowds and media hype that Sarah does when she speaks or appears at rallies and media events.
The eliets may look down their noses at Sarah but can their perfect Havard or Yale educated candidates attract thousands of supporters at a rally like she can? I think not.
I do. (giggle--a sort of little joke there, since the article is discussing "political marriages") But, I do believe it. I still say that there is simply a loosely connected collection of voters who, for whatever reasons, do not want to vote third party and will not vote for the dims.
Over the years, I’ve been called a “loserdopian” on this very board more times than I can count — merely because I support getting the feds out of the drug war, except as it directly relates to interstate commerce.
Anti-conservative forces try to convince social conservatives that small government/libertarian conservatives are mostly leftist libertines out to destry everything they hold sacred. At the same time they try to convince small gov/libertarian conservatives that social conservatives are out-of-touch, fascist zealots.
Neither is true, but it sure helps the statist Romneys, Bushes, Huckabees, etc. of the world to pit us all against each other.
“If the Republican partnership is to survive, the contempt must end.”
I agree -— TOTALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, it's importnat for me to understand why you've used the term "your types" when refering to me (and others). Are you insinuating that I am homosexual with that language or are you basically labeling me (and others); which one?
Can you disprove my claim that I've read the article in the Navy Times that showed a survey that estimated that some 8% of the armed sevices were homosexual. I, unfortunately, cannot locate the article but do remember reading it -- it had a break-down percentage for each of the branches. Do you have any citations that the percentage is less than 8%?
The thought of having to defend liberty -- at least liberty as a default position -- on a conservative message board is interesting, isn't it?
I was once called an uber-capitalist by a FReeper as though it was supposed to be a slur for me. I wore it as a badge of honor. And then any time I saw the guy in a debate where I took an opposing view, I linked-to or mentioned the post where he wrote it.
Should read: "or are you basically labeling me (and others) as homosexual sympathizers; which one?
I wasn’t interested in learning so much about you or your opinions I thought is was a simple question. I just wanted to know if you would use federal power to oppress homosexual expression and liberty in the military.
You made the claim that the military is 8% homosexual which would make it more like a gay Club Med, you need to support such a ridiculous claim.
The you type thing goes back to posts like #51. Since the conservative movement is primarily a social conservative/religious people voter movement, your type is the anti-social conservative minority that still chooses to vote with social conservatives instead of the democrat party like most of your type do.
It sure is. The same thing goes here on FR about sex offender registries, or opposition to police tyranny, or capitalism -- the contempt from some FReepers is palpable.
The fact is, conservatives can't win national office without these three factions: social conservatives, small gov/libertarians, and defense hawks. And each faction is guilty of contempt toward the others. As a result, Romney, McCain, Bush, Huckabee, etc. run the party.
I must admit, I have a certain degree of contempt for those conservatives that distrust market outcomes, defend government entitlements, and champion their sanctimonous moral convictions be 'solved' at the federal level.
A big difference is that a typical socon is a typical conservative of the same type that we have had since the beginning, he is the whole package and he is the majority of the conservative movement and tradition.
There is a modern branch of self described “conservatives” that are actually against it but they do like it’s economics so they have tried to make war against the conservatives, it is not the socons that are trying to stop anything, socons are fighting and voting for all three, Americanism, strong defense and conservative economics and low taxes.
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