Posted on 09/08/2010 7:01:19 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
If you’re a conservative activist or major Republican donor, you have some interesting social options in front of you this month. Tea or cocktails? A small-government rally or a fundraiser for same-sex marriage? Pack yourself in with the grass roots at a mass meeting or rub shoulders with the legal elite in a posh drawing room?
But more is at stake than options on a menu of social gatherings. With the same tension that has existed in past efforts by some GOP elites to play down social issues or envelop them in a “Big Tent” — but with far more intensity than ever before — the perennial, or more properly quadrennial, identity crisis among Republicans is boiling to the surface.
It’s already clear where the glamour resides. The cachet is to be found with those elite Republican fund-raisers and political maestros, who favor not just a tamping down of social issue activism but an embrace of avant-garde ideas like same-sex marriage.
The reaction to Ken Mehlman’s admission that he is homosexual and regrets his involvement on behalf of preserving traditional marriage is typical. The former Republican National Committee chairman and campaign manager for George W. Bush was greeted with cheers Washington, and quickly rechristened “one of the sharpest and most energetic political talents” in the land.
The same cachet is bestowed on Steve Schmidt, the California-based political consultant who guided John McCain’s 2008 campaign. Announcing that he would co-sponsor a fund-raising cocktail party for the group sponsoring the legal challenge to California’s pro-traditional marriage Prop 8, Schmidt told The Huffington Post that there “is a conservative case to be made in favor of gay marriage.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The "elite" Republicans - the kind who approve of sodomite marriage and abortion and so forth - are the problem, not the solution. They need to be purged ASAP.
The full court press is ON people!!
And we are getting the ball stolen and turned over and can’t get an inbound pass.
Does the GOP have NO ONE capable to bring this ball down the floor? No one wants to even touch it.
Poor handlers, tepid shooters and traitorous coaches will NOT win anything.
We are getting our asses handed to us on this issue. ALL Pun intended.
This was written by Frank Cannon? I had no idea he moved into political writing. 35 years ago he was one of the best detectives money could buy. Also drove the coolest Lincoln Mark 4.
AMEN!!
There is NO small government “conservative’: argument for same-sex marriage......what do they wish to “conserve” by same-sex marriage?
A libertarian minimalist would argue against any marriage laws-——not letting judges redefine marriage to include same-sex marriage under old laws....
If marriage is anything or everything, then it’s nothing....
Just like if “It’s all good” then nothing is bad and if nothing is bad, then nothing is good, either.....
Opposite-sex marriage promotes diversity and nature......
Same-sex marriage promotes same-ness and exclusion of “the Other”.
Joseph Sobran had it right when he defined homosexuality as “a tragic disability”.........it’s not about hatred or bigotry....
You don’t destroy human civilization because you want to protect peoples’ feelings and turn a private matter into a public one.....
It’s conservative to allow people privacy in the privacy of their own bedrooms and leave ultimate judgment to God......but that’s not what same-sex marriage is about....
It goes too far beyond “tolerance”....
How does denying same-sex marriage interfere with the “right-to-privacy”? How does it interfere with the right to “love” whomever you please? It doesn’t.
same-sex marriage <==> square circles
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This is a push by the left to normalize homosexuality. Since Prop 8 it has been intense. And it will only get worse. We MUST get rid of Rinos in DC and our state governments. They are not listening to American voters. And we have said "NO". Clean house at all levels of government because, make no mistake, they intend to force acceptance of deviancy on us any way they can.
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This shouldn’t surprise you.
Politico is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Washington Compost. What would you expect but leftist propaganda ? Especially the insidious kind like this.
Sadly, I don’t think this is propaganda. At least not in fundamental terms. There is an uncomfortable accuracy in the assertions the author makes about the GOP’s wishy-squishy positions on social issues.
And it make come home to roost, whether for the GOP or the conservatives, remains to be seen.
Agree COMPLETELY!
These elitist have no moral compass and as such no foundation or clear direction -the supposedly unyielding conservative principles they do embrace today are like leaves blowing in the wind subject to change -just as they are --spineless RINOs...
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