If you are saying we can win elections by being meaner, I disagree with your opinion, and I think the evidence is clear that being mean does not get the independents to vote for your candidate.
If you are arguing that personally you don’t want to be nice, I’m not telling you what to do in your personal life. I’m saying what the public face of the party should be, if we want to win elections.
We need to be the party that opposes special rights for homosexuals, that opposes condoning homosexual behavior, that opposes making homosexuality “normal”. But if we are the party that hates homosexuals, we won’t win elections. And i want to win elections, and since I don’t believe God called me to hate homosexuals, I don’t feel I’m compromising my principles by suggesting this course of action.
I hate the homosexual agenda. I’m talking about standing up courageously against the homosexual agenda. That’s what I’m talking about.
And it seems a lot of Repubs are not willing or able to do that. That is sickening and is going to cost elections.
The problem with your course of action is that opposition to gay marriage is twisted into gay hate by both the liberal media and homosexual groups.
Opposition to gays in the military brings the same response.
Opposition to teaching children that the homosexual lifestyle is no different and on the same level as a traditional nuclear family bring even more cat calls of “right-wing hatred”.
We are damned if we do, damned if we don’t so why bother to compromise our position on this issue?
I for one do not believe that the majority of Americans, when confronted with the truth of the radical gay agenda being foisted upon this nation, would approve with their agenda. In fact, it would seem the more people learn the more they are apt to change minds - to our side.
For the GOP to win, we need a solid platform with firm principles on all issues that affect America. When Conservative beliefs are clearly and honestly explained more people find they are in full agreement with those positions. Many go even further and start working towards advancing the Conservative platform.
When the GOP platform tries to conform to the latest special interest group or bends the platform in an attempt to garner a few thousand more votes, we all lose.
The GOP didn’t lose power after 94 and 06 because of Conservative positions - they lost by going first against the base, then the moderates in the party and finally by not standing up to liberals who ran smear campaigns against Republicans Goebbels would be proud of.
Any issue you can think of will work using this simple formula, including the issue of homosexuals jumping on the
Conservative platform solely to spread their own agenda.