Note none of these issues have anything to do with Christianity, per se..
It is only GOPe trolls on this site who keep trying to divide conservatives and Tea Party by making us the inheritors of The Moral Majority — which tea party is definitely not.
The GOPe fixation on Tea Party religious affiliation should be turned back on them...the scary truth for the GOPe is that basic Tea Party principles are cross party American beliefs-- the Establishment cannot allow the message to leak into independent or moderate democratic thinking -- they need to use the wedge of old time Falwell politics to try to keep Tea Party down.
All the above discussion on the religious makeup of Tea Party seems like GOPe troll bait to me...
I agree with JimRob' anti GOPe sentiments above!
Interesting comments, and I largely agree…with a few caveats. I don’t know about any GOPe trolls on this site - and I think everyone on this thread is in agreement with anti GOPe sentiments.
And the GOPe certainly thinks, like Bush did, that all “conservatives” - (who the hell ever they are in the mind of the estab type) - can be bought with a few bones for pro life, etc. That’s why they’re co opting Huckabee, thinking he’s their ticket into the TP.
He is not, but he is a ticket into the unthinking among the social ONLY cons.
I don’t think anyone has ever seen any such “GOPe fixation on Tea Party religious affiliation”, so you made that up.
You made it up to hide the fixation of social liberals/libertarians on the Tea Party religious affiliation to continue the effort to divide and defeat conservatism.
Why would it bother you that tea party members and supporters, know that they are typical for true conservatives, and are more religious and more social conservative than typical republicans, and much, much, more so, than the libertarians who are always trying to move the GOP even farther left than the one the tea party is fighting?
If the tea party doesn’t want to be ambushed by the left/libertarians, then they need to know that their fellow tea party members are not libertarians/rinos.
RAND PAUL: “I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, will have to agree to disagree on social issues,” Paul advised. “The Republican Party is not going to give up on having quite a few people who do believe in traditional marriage. But the Republican Party also has to find a place for young people and others who don’t want to be festooned by those issues.”