If the GOP surrenders the field in the Culture War to the sodomite libertines and their pro-sodomy libertarian allies, then any victory it may enjoy will be at the cost of its core principles. The Republican Party is supposed to be a
conservative party, both socially and economically; if the GOP sacrifices its social conservatism for the sake of electral success, then it forfeits the right to call itself conservative, and becomes a
de facto libertarian party.
Western civilization is defined not by laissez-faire economics, but by the Judeo-Christian ethic, whih displaced the ethic of the warring pagan cultures of Europe and baptized them into a single Christian civilization. If the libertarian wing of the GOP suceeds in ousting or rendering irrelevant the socially conservative wing that champions the Western ethic, the American voter will be limited to a choice between two parties which both advocate a revived pagan ethic, the dismantling of the Judeo-Christian ethic, and with it the end of Western civilization as we have known it -- a Pyhrric victory.
I personally would rather suffer under a blatantly pagan Democratic regime than a crypto-pagan Republican administration -- the pagans on the left at least give it to you straight.
If the GOP surrenders the field in the Culture War to the sodomite libertines and their pro-sodomy libertarian allies, then any victory it may enjoy will be at the cost of its core principles.
The Republican Party is supposed to be a conservative party, both socially and economically;
if the GOP sacrifices its social conservatism for the sake of electral success, then it forfeits the right to call itself conservative, and becomes a de facto libertarian party.
-bchan-
Yes indeed, the Republican Party ~is~ "supposed to be a conservative party, both socially and economically"..
-- It is not, and hasn't been, -- for quite a some time. Since it stopped supporting our constituton, as written, in fact.
-- The only faction of the GOP that still does so is represented here at FR on the RLC forum, where JR posted their positions, some time ago:
REPUBLICAN LIBERTY CAUCUS POSITION STATEMENT
Address:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/721810/posts Perhaps you could read the above, and point out where the "sodomite libertines and their pro-sodomy libertarian allies" have stated their
agendas?