Republicans Should Avoid Social Issues

NewsMax ^ | 031912 | Wayne Allyn Root

[Fred]

Rick Santorum could be the worst thing to happen to the GOP — ever. Worse even than George W. Bush. And that’s saying a lot. Bush did so much damage to the GOP brand, he almost destroyed the party forever. It was George Bush who brought us Barack Obama. Few Americans voted for Obama, they just voted for ABB (Anyone But Bush).

Now the GOP has a golden opportunity. Obama has wrecked the U.S. economy from sea to shining sea. He has turned off voters by the millions. By historical standards, based on the current disastrous economic and unemployment numbers, Obama is virtually unelectable. Obama is a magician. He has made voters forget Bush in only three years. That's a pretty darn amazing trick.

The proof is in the recent polls. This has been perhaps the worst month for the GOP in modern political history. The message is no longer jobs, rising gas prices, chronic long-term unemployment, or crumbling real estate.

The message is about women’s health, the right to use contraception, Planned Parenthood funding, Rush Limbaugh’s use of a crude term to describe a young female law student, and whether Republicans like sex, or hate women. It just doesn’t get any worse than this. And in recent polls, Mitt Romney is leading President Obama.

[KantianBurke]

“But I liked Bush.”

Then you weren’t paying attention. He was and is a pitiful disgrace.

[steve8714]

Who is your alternative currently in the race?

[bopdowah]

Forget social issues - it’s all about the Economy, Stupido!

I’m absolutely convinced that Newt Gingrich is the junkyard dog we need to rip Obama a new one and send him slinking back to his Chicago slime pit with his tail between his legs. Newt has plenty of DC experience as Speaker, executive ability from his many enterprises, and a silver tongue that’s razor sharp! He’s fast on his feet, delivers it straight up with no hemming and hawing, and is often witty. His work with American Solutions was very impressive and as we’ve seen recently, Newt is able to put into words what the vast majority of Americans really believe. His fevered brain also has plenty of ideas for making government work better for taxpayers. Is Newt pure as new-driven snow? No - none of the presidential candidates are in line for sainthood. Whatever Newt’s “baggage”, it pales next to Obama’s habitual lying and outright corruption - and unlike Obama, Newt is 100% American! Newt is like Larry the Cable Guy: send him to DC and he’ll “Get ‘er done” for all of us. Newt has “Been there, done that! Junkyard dogs are not show dogs, but they’ll save your bacon!

I am damn mad at what Obama and his fawning bootlickers have stolen from us - you should be too - and I want someone to represent me! Newt Gingrich is that man! Sic ‘im, Newt!

[cripplecreek]

We must not let the MSM define Rick Santorum. Period.

Plenty of FReepers who puff their chests out and brag about fighting the media happily jump on that media bandwagon at the first opportunity.

America is a mess because so many lack a moral basis and I'm not talking about the left this time. After all, look at how many bashed Michele Bachmann for suggesting $2 gas but are now treating another candidate like a messiah for saying the same.

[steve8714]

Newt has no chance at the nomination, for reasons unrelated to his fitness and all related to his experience.

[loboinok]

Few Americans voted for Obama, they just voted for ABB (Anyone But Bush).

No need to read any further than that!

[trappedincanuckistan]

“The GOP took back congress in 2010”

It wasn’t because they campaigned on waging a war against birth control or online porn. It was made possible by a broad “get the government out of my life” coalition.

[ConservativeTeen]

No, Wayne (2008 Libertarian VP nominee), we pro-life/pro traditional marriage social conservatives will not go to the back of bus.

[yldstrk]

Why is he a pitiful disgrace?

[CodeToad]

Because the liberals, read: children, want to have their way or else they throw a temper tantrum???

[Night Hides Not]

The two issues are one. Free market economics can't thrive as a system without honor and integrity.

Well said, FRiend.

Wall Street, i.e. the financial services industry, has proven itself incapable of self regulation.

Crony capitalism is rampant, as winners and losers are made through federal regulatory and tax policy.

We took an overnight trip to Houston over the weekend. While driving south on I-45, I noticed a string of literally hundreds of tanker cars taking crude down to Houston for refining. Thanks to Obama's veto on the Keystone pipeline, Warren Buffett (BNSF Railroad) will reap the benefits of that veto.

And you hear nothing but crickets coming from the RNC or Romney. That cozy Obama-Buffett relationship would be in my daily talking points if I was running for Prez.

[cripplecreek]

I think Gingrich would need to win nearly every remaining state by wide margins to get the nomination. Even that may not be enough considering the way the table keeps getting tilted in favor of Romney.

Between them, Santorum and Gingrich hold enough delegates to put themselves within 100 of Romney.

[Kenny]

Rick Santorum could be the worst thing to happen to the GOP

Actually the worst thing to happen to the Republican party is Republicans eating their own. I've never seen Democrats go after other Dems like that which is why they'll eventually win.

[cripplecreek]

"It was Sunday morning early in the year 1776. In the church where Pastor Muhlenberg preached, it was a regular service for his congregation, but a quite different affair for Muhlenberg himself. Muhlenberg's text for the day was Ecclesiastes 3 where it explains, 'To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted...'"

"Coming to the end of his sermon, Peter Muhlenberg turned to his congregation and said, 'In the language of the holy writ, there was a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away.' As those assembled looked on, Pastor Muhlenberg declared, 'There is a time to fight, and that time is now coming!' Muhlenberg then proceeded to remove his robes revealing, to the shock of his congregation, a military uniform."

"Marching to the back of the church he declared, 'Who among you is with me?' On that day 300 men from his church stood up and joined Peter Muhlenberg. They eventually became the 8th Virginia Brigade fighting for liberty."

"Frederick Muhlenberg, Peter's brother, was against Peter's level of involvement in the war. Peter responded to Frederick writing, 'I am a Clergyman it is true, but I am a member of the Society as well as the poorest Layman, and my Liberty is as dear to me as any man, shall I then sit still and enjoy myself at Home when the best Blood of the Covenant is spilling? ...So far am I from thinking that I act wrong, I am convinced it is my duty to do so and duly I owe to God and my country."

[JCBreckenridge]

Well said.

GWBush won, Reagan won.

HW Bush, lost, Dole, lost, McCain, lost,

Seems to me whenever republicans stand up for social conservatism they win.

[steve8714]

Kennedy’s remarks were a fib in response to a lie.

[donna]

Add the USA to the list, but DON’T TALK ABOUT IT!

Marxism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Feminism...

“The place of the family as a shut-in petty enterprise was to be occupied, according to the plans, by a finished system of social care and accommodation: maternity houses, creches, kindergartens, schools, social dining rooms, social laundries, first-aid stations, hospitals, sanatoria, athletic organizations, moving-picture theaters, etc. The complete absorption of the housekeeping functions of the family by institutions of the socialist society...”

- Leon Trotsky -

[steve8714]

Homo? Married 14 years with three kids? Who does he think he is, Prince Charles?

[cripplecreek]

Restoring Honor Rally. A pro American rally based in faith



Yeah lets tell these people that its a loser to speak of faith.

[dforest]

The tax stucture can be changed. The biggest killer of the economy and social structure is Obamacare. With it, the country is all but dead, and so is your freedom. It is the most important thing to rid ourselves of if we want any future.

Rick Santorum makes a great case against Obamacare.

He talks about the economy a lot if you follow him, but you won’t see it on the MSM because they want to feed the notion that all he talks about is social issues.