It's obvious that Chuck Baldwin and the Constitution Party don't consider being a Fiscal Conservative a critical issue. Let the single issue zealots go form their own party, we don't need them.
When they are gone the GOP will gain more than enough moderate voters from the Democrats to replace the Religous Zealots .
Tick tock...
When they are gone the GOP will gain more than enough moderate voters from the Democrats to replace the Religous Zealots .
Thanks for at least being honest. I will tell you right now that the Republican Party will be in big trouble if they decide to reject Christian conservatives. I know you don't like to hear this but some six out of seven voting-age Americans are Christians. What makes evangelical Christians so powerful, Pew found, was their consistency on the issues. "The fact that this group expresses a consistent set of conservative political attitudes and is extremely active politically makes evangelicals Christians a powerful voting bloc,They're more apt to vote than other groups. With priorities going beyond core moral concerns over abortion and homosexuality, two-thirds of self-proclaimed religious conservatives are likely to vote, versus roughly half of all Americans. This is a very powerful bloc and if people like you say we can get these votes from moderates, think again.
When they are gone the GOP will gain more than enough moderate voters from the Democrats to replace the Religous Zealots .
Thanks for at least being honest. I will tell you right now that the Republican Party will be in big trouble if they decide to reject Christian conservatives. I know you don't like to hear this but some six out of seven voting-age Americans are Christians.
What makes evangelical Christians so powerful, Pew found, was their consistency on the issues. "The fact that this group expresses a consistent set of conservative political attitudes and is extremely active politically makes evangelicals Christians a powerful voting bloc,They're more apt to vote than other groups. With priorities going beyond core moral concerns over abortion and homosexuality, two-thirds of self-proclaimed religious conservatives are likely to vote, versus roughly half of all Americans.
This is a very powerful bloc and if people like you say we can get these votes from moderates, think again.
So how long has Chuck been "vision challenged" anyway?
Absurd. Without the Evangelicals the Republican Party would have gone the way of the Whigs in the 1970s.
Face it. Without Evangelical Christian social conservatives, Dems would own both houses of congress and the White House, the 1994 Republican landslide would have never happened, and this forum (if it existed at all) would be filled with speculation as to which Rockefeller/Gerald Ford clone would be most likely to give President Gore a good run before losing in 2004.
Neither apparently, do Republicans. The Congress has been spending like a bunch of drunken whores. Wilson raised taxes after promising not to do so. Arnold will likely follow suit only through fees and fines that ammount to little more than official extortion, at least, that's what he says he'll do.
Of course, he also says he will force the entire State and Local governments to replace their vehicle fleets with outrageously expensive "clean vehicles," he promises to build hydrogen stations to fuel a non-existent vehicle fleet, he promises to regulate and enforce indoor air quality standards in private homes, he promises to destroy all timber harvesting in the Sierra (which will burn it to a crisp and cut local tax revenue), his "pollution" control plans will hand over ag land to developers and keep the maintain the State's critical shortage in electrical generating capacity...
What a guy!
What is a fiscal conservative? Someone who balances budgets? Would that be by raising taxes or lowering spending? If Arnie follows his puppetmaster Pete Wilson's example, his election will result in colossal tax increases to pay off Warren Buffett's friends.
If you think so much of Arnie, run him as a Libertarian Party candidate. He is certainly no Republican.
Fiscal conservatism cannot stand on its own.