When Santorum drops out, Newt should pray to the God that the gays make vomit that Santorum either withholds his “endorsement” until very late in the game, or swings it toward Romney. Newt does not need this kind of fundamentalist vote going to him-—the MSM and Obama will use it against him.
The only appeal Santorum can count on is this small group of
fundamentalists whose BIGGEST issue, or at least the one that distinguishes them from the other candidates, is precisely this kind of issue, one that does not have much importance to the masses of voters Newt will need both to win the nomination and to win the Presidency.’
GO AWAY RICK!
True. The Rick Santorum diehards would probably be a liability.
Ditto to GO AWAY RICK!
I don't agree with you at all on this.
Homosexuality is a wedge issue, not only for conservative Christians but for lots of non-Christians who view homosexuality as disgusting and perverted.
As one farmer put it, “even pigs don't FY— that way.”
It's also a key area on which President Obama disagrees with large numbers of black pastors. I'd personally love to see a conservative evangelical black pastor given lots of media time by pro-homosexual media who think reporting on his views with hurt Republicans.
I'm very much aware that there's a lot of homosexuality in the neo-conservative part of the Republican Party. I'm also aware that for the economic conservative and libertarian parts of the Republican Party, lots of Republicans oppose the government “getting into bedrooms.”
Okay, fine.
If the only way Republicans can win races in California and Massachusetts and New York and other left-of-center places is by being economic conservatives who think limited government means the government doesn't promote morality, I don't have a problem with saying that I'll take the votes in Congress of a Republican who agrees with me on 90 percent of issues when the alternative is a Congressman from the Democratic Party who disagrees with me on 90 percent of issues.
But don't try to argue that most Americans don't care about homosexuality. Despite all the efforts of the movie industry to glamorize gayness, it hasn't succeeded, at least not yet. Ronald Reagan was absolutely right about the dangerous power of mass entertainment to corrupt America, and what the movie and television entertainment industry is doing with homosexuality is a key example of that, but it hasn't yet succeeded in doing so.