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How did conservatism become so preoccupied with religious righteousness?

It is the "deferred interest & penalities" on the price of Nixon's "Southern Strategy"....

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"It is the "deferred interest & penalities" on the price of Nixon's "Southern Strategy"...."

So, we end up with nobody talking about taxes, irrational spending, budget deficits or trade imbalances. We talk about a morning after pill, the teaching of comic book theology as science in Kansas and the moral righteousness of a conservative base. I guess I am just having a bad day. As a conservative I know what I believe and what I want. As a person of faith I am inclined to treat that part of my life more quietly, more introspectively and certainly to keep my faith issues outside the blood sport of partisan politics.