Avoid Social Issues, GOP Urged (Homosexualists, Pro-Aborts Co-opt Tea Party Movement)

Politico ^ | Sunday, November 14, 2010 | Ben Smith and Byron Tau

[LomanBill]

[I’m arguing that the entire social conservative agenda can be advanced on a platform of limiting the size and scope of government {that invites homosexual activists into the seat of power}]

 

You're delusional if you think homosexual activists will limit themselves to fiscal conservatism, and refrain from pushing their fatally liberal social agenda -- once they get access to POWER.

 

 

[metmom]

IATZ

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

LCR is not exactly a conservative group, anyhow, so I’m not sure why the article painted them as such.

[DJ MacWoW]

He was registered for four years before making his first post.

Well, even one fingered someone can type faster than that. I do. :-)

[little jeremiah]

Zotfest here. Have fun, one at least.

[Ol' Sparky]

What matters right now, 300 congressional Republicans all opining on the nature of homosexuality and Other Things That Don’t Matter, or saving America from bankruptcy?

Now, you're out of the closet as to why you hate Sarah Palin so much and are coming up with lame arguments why she can't win. You're either liberaltarian or social liberal.

It's another brain-dead argument. Republicans have plenty of time address both fiscal and social issue. They either do both or lose.

You want for more years of Obama, keep trying to screw over factions of the conservative base. That is the only way he can win.

[metmom]

IATZ

[DJ MacWoW]

Maybe if we bring up the "social" issues we will lose some votes we need.

That's not how it works. And the social issues directly impact the fiscal ones. Anyone that ignores that is stupid.

[MrEdd]

Maybe if we bring up the "social" issues we will lose some votes we need

Social issues are a higher priority than fiscal issues for social conservatives.

Here is a clue you are not bright enough to understand on your own:

Unemployed people deprived of their ability to work by a socialist government tend to move right in their thinking

Social conservative not only have zero intentions of compromising social issues to achieve fiscal goals...it pays off to hold true.

Social conservatives literally do not need those votes you describe if they are playing for the long haul. We will get many of them as people come face to face with themselves when they have more time than money on their hands, and no more rich government helping them go play some more.

[only1percent]

Let's think about history a bit.

Traditional social mores were never chiefly sustained or enforced by the power of the government (federal or state). They were sustained and enforced privately: in the family, the church, neighborhood, and the workplace. By the far the most important thing the government did was not be in the way.

Without papering over important differences, we all ought to be able to figure out a way to get behind the campaign to stop the liberal elite from taxing and regulating us into living our lives the way they think is proper.

[little jeremiah]

You have no clue about the difference between States’ Rights and Nanny State Federal Government.

Libertarianism is merely the ultra kook fringe of leftism.

[Screaming_Gerbil]

So what do you suggest Republicans do?

Pick their battles.

Slash government spending. Shrink the size of government by simply defunding it.

The rest will sort itself out. Social liberalism cannot survive without the teet of Big Government.

We concentrate all of our ammo on one target — spending — and don't let up.

Great advice that I feel is worth repeating.

[Ol' Sparky]

I'd be happy if they'd focus on any ONE issue and get 'er done. In this case, focus on shrinking govt.

They don't have time to do more than focus on issue?

And, they can address social concerns while shrinking government. They can cut off money to Planned Parenthood and pass legislation that prevents a penny of taxpayers' dollars from funding abortion.

[LomanBill]

>>that are uncomfortable with “Social Issues”

Maybe that’s because they’ve been indoctrinated and desensitized with politically correct purple bovine excrement — you know, the pro-homo propagandafest the MSM is selling these days?

Meanwhile, some of us are STILL capable of observing relevant self-evident Natural Truths — such as “Gay” penguins in the San Fransicko zoo, that WEREN’T — for OURSELVES.

Is the activist exploitation of reproductive dysfunction a CHOICE? Yes, it is.

NO SALE.

[little jeremiah]

Here’s another noob/retread troll.

[LomanBill]

[Fear of opening up a "divisive" debate is whats wrong with the REPUBLICRAT WASHINGTONIANS that we aim to take down...]

 

Exactomundo! Right on Target, FIRE FOR EFFECT.

[little jeremiah]

Screw you, troll.

Thanks to enough idiots on SCOTUS no states can make such laws now.

The right to sodomy is not protected under the Constituiton. That’s your fantasy, noob/retread troll.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Any society that promotes the wanton mass-destruction of innocent life will cease to remain a civilized society. The two items are as incompatible as fire and water. They cannot coexist.

If people who refuse to acknowledge this remain in control, barbarism will reign. It's already knocking on our doorstep. This is not some inconsequential “social issue”, you blithering, self-absorbed neanderthals. This is everything. Everything.

[little jeremiah]

Which Tea Party are you referring to?

[Ol' Sparky]

We are more likely to win over blacks and Hispanics with social conservatism.

Actually, social conservatism is the key to winning over Catholics and Reagan Democrats as well. That is one of the reasons both groups moved heavily toward Republicans in this election cycle.