Posted on 10/11/2012 8:46:12 AM PDT by AmonAmarth
Joe Biden, on his way to tonight's vice presidential debate in Kentucky, asks the press, "You ever see me rope-a-dope?"
From the pool report:
Vice President Biden arrived at about 10:50 a.m. at New Castle Airport. He climbed out of a gray SUV, greeted some military (see below) and then walked toward the press gathered near the wing.
Asked about tonight's debate he said, "Looking forward to it."
Asked about his strategy, whether it was rope-a-dope, he responded: "You ever see me rope-a-dope?"
Biden skips rope while Obama smokes dope.
Actually, the Whigs died of EXACTLY the same fate that will likely be the death blow to the GOP, they refused to embrace social conservatism.
The two social conservative issues of the first half of the 19th century are EXACTLY the same as the two issues today: personhood and the sanctity of marriage.
The Whigs back then were fine with each state and/or the courts getting to decide if Blacks were persons or not. The GOP today seems to be fine with courts and states deciding if the unborn are persons or not.
The Whigs wanted a "big tent" that didn't exclude anyone, so they were fine ignoring Mormon polygamy even though thousands of years of Judeo-Christian tradition had defined marriage as one man and one woman. Today, the GOP seems content to do the same thing with same-sex "marriage."
The GOP was formed in the 1850s by Whigs who refused to be silent any longer, their first platform said that it was imperative that the "twin relics of barbarism - Polygamy, and Slavery" be abolished. Within a few years the Whigs were gone and the GOP became the dominant party for the rest of the century. If the GOP of today continues to ignore and marginalize social conservatives, it too will go the way of the Whigs.
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