Hey -- great idea. Let's keep the GOP a bastion for ONLY white, straight, pro-life Christian males and their stay-at-home spouses. Forget outreach to the gay community and the pro-choice community.
We don't want no 'big tent' GOP. We want a 'dunce cap' GOP. /sarcasm
Ultraconservatives who believe it is their religious duty to declare jihad on tolerance and big-tent-Republicanism is what drove me away from the Republican party in the first place. Fortunately in the South, Democrats are moderate and conservative enough for me to feel at home there.
BTW I am a pro-life, straight, white Christian male with a stay-at-home wife.
What, you think blacks, latinos, and others aren't ever pro-life? Not very inclusive, are you. By the by, I don't necessarily dismiss the Lee Atwater brand of politics, still, I am a broken glass republican. But, as a southern boy, you can't escape comprehending the breach of etiquette if one doesn't dance with the one that brung ya, can you? PS. NJ, from whence I came, was once a GOP strong-hold. Then, its GOP got suckered by buying into the whole relatavism, can't we all get along thing. Now it can't, or won't, support a decent GOP candidate--to whit: Brett Shundler--and its base is demoralized, and the larger RINO's flock to demos any chance they get, cuz they aren't really pubbies at all anymore--they've been so "Open" AND "Tolerant" Ooohh!!!.
And the base who could ELECT a conservative can't get the leadership to give up the bucks, in order to do so; in order to get the message out. That's reality. Your kind of inclusion is so eighties. We have to fight now for positive understanding of the moral authority of our position. And, I think it can be done. PS, Congratulations on the lifestyle choice, but the opposition has it in mind to legislate it out of existence so long as we are weak in conviction and therefore numbers. IMHO. V's wife.