It’s not just the Huckster Elmer Gantry whom has damaged Republicanism and conservatism for 2008. It’s his gullible minions and followers and the politically unprincipled and unaligned movements of the “Values Voters”, “Social-Conservatives”, the Evangelicals, and the Monomaniacal Single-Issue Anti-Abortion Party.
These folks were brought into the conservative movement 40 years ago with the naive and strained logic that conservatives and Religionists shared some kind of underlying motive related to liberty and freedom and the role of government.
Turns out (as Barry Goldwater then predicted), the Religionsists have virtually destroyed the GOP, and conservatism is next to go (if not already gone).
A book could be written about this, but it’s time for those who care to focus on this Elephant In The Living Room and to stop worrying about the ineffectual and artless RINOs. The damage they’ve done and can do is just a fraction of what’s been done by Social Conservatives, Values Voters, Evangelicals, and the Huckster Elmer Gantry supporters.
I think it’s time that true conservatives should start to consider moving to the Libertarian Party. It’s going to be easier to take over and eliminate the extremist positions of the Libertarian Party than eliminate the RINOs out of the Rep party. Let the Reps die on the vine and create a true conservative, libertarian party that can compete. We can’t do it this year, but it’s time to look at it for the mid-term elections.
Thats an over simplification of FREE republicans.. You know people not afrais to use the words Socialist or Communist..
Actually your term above is a way to say (BOHICA-A-SUALI).. Bent over here it comes again.. AND.. shut up and like it.. The issue is not just this Presidential election cycle, its the last maybe 4 or 5.. Republicans are being played for fools.. successfully.. Are you a FOOL?...
Religionists are not now nor were they ever a problem for the Republican party.
You certainly couldn't be referring to the same Goldwater who couldn't convince more than 1 in 3 Americans to vote for him. Compared to him, Bush is a political savant.
Huckabee is an loon but so was Goldwater. Any nutcase that believed in UFOs should never have held statewide office let alone run on a major party ticket.