Do you really believe that? I'm truly astounded.
The Republican party has been cowed for years by liberal political correctness. Whenever some issue comes up, like gay rights, AIDS, abortion, you name it, they bend over backwards in order to prove they aren't 'mean ol conservatives.'
Yes. The formula seems to be: A Dem accuses a Pub of doing or saying something non-PC, the media shouts it to the rooftops, the Republican says,"I'm Sorry....I'm Soooo Sorry. Please forgive me, etc."
Disgusting.
“The Republican party has been cowed for years by liberal political correctness. Whenever some issue comes up, like gay rights, AIDS, abortion, you name it, they bend over backwards in order to prove they aren’t ‘mean ol conservatives.’”
Who in the GOP been cowed on abortion? Not most of them.
Being prolife is a bulwark of the GOP platform.
As for ‘gay rights’, I would want them to have no more and no less rights than others, but why use their verbiage when its not really about ‘rights’ any more. We need to do the compassionate thing for kids and defend traditional marriage. If in the process you prove you are not mean, so be it. Its how we win arguments.
Conservatives as a whole are not mean-spirited so I would hope and expect them not to let that label stick, by advancing their viewpoints in ways to deflect such bogus criticism. that’s not being ‘cowed’.