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To: LowCountryJoe
Some conservatives (perhaps a minority, as you suggest) don't care nearly enough about the social issues as we do the economic/fiscal issues.

Of course it is a minority, look at the voter categories in posts 13 and 19, who are you voting with on those charts, I'll bet that you find yourself voting with the socon evangelicals, but where are most of the anti socons in those charts, they are voting democrat by huge margins.

You still have to show us that the military is massively homosexual. One out of twelve GIs are not homosexual as you believe.

125 posted on 07/26/2009 2:05:48 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: ansel12

Do you read for understanding? And do you have some kind of aversion to answering point-blank questions the first and second times they’re asked?


127 posted on 07/26/2009 2:11:31 PM PDT by LowCountryJoe (Do class-warfare and disdain of laissez-faire have their places in today's GOP?)
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To: ansel12

Socons are not the only folks who traditionally support republicans in wide margins. Libertarians have historically overwhelmingly voted GOP. From a 2006 analysis of the 2000 and 2004 elections:

“For those on the trail of the elusive swing voter, it may be most notable that the libertarian vote shifted sharply in 2004. Libertarians preferred George W. Bush over Al Gore by 72 to 20 percent, but Bush’s margin dropped in 2004 to 59-38 over liberal John Kerry. Congressional voting showed a similar swing from 2002 to 2004. Libertarians apparently became disillusioned with Republican overspending, social intolerance, civil liberties infringements, and the floundering war in Iraq. If that trend continues into 2006 and 2008, Republicans will lose elections they would otherwise win.”

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/html/pa580/pa580index.html


129 posted on 07/26/2009 2:21:15 PM PDT by ellery (It's a free country.)
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