GOP Chairman Racicot Defends Meeting with ‘Gay’ Pressure Group [Alienating the GOP base]

www.cwfa.org ^ | Robert Knight

[ElkGroveDan]

Gay people are citizens, and Marc is giving them the respect they deserve.

Yes they sure are citizens. But the question is do they deserve special laws based on behaviors they chose to partake in?

Do Pedophiles deserve respect? Necrophiliacs? Cannibals? If they are differnet, please tell us WHY they are different.

They are all "citizens" who have chosen to engage in behavior that most of society has agreed is repulsive. Should we pass special laws everytime someone thinks up some new sick behavior? That is what the debate about, not whether or not they are citizens

[Polycarp]

and having madg comment on homosexual issue threads is like reading Communist propaganda...why bother?

[F16Fighter]

"No, you miss my point...Group threats don't work."

Sorry I misunderstood the gist your post Mabel, although "groups" can work with the right leadership and focus.

Right now, there isn't much of either.

[ChuckMartelRox]

That would be the tinfoil hat brigade.

So, do you think certain segments of the GOP perceive Christian conservatives as "the tinfoil hat brigade"?

[F16Fighter]

"Who thinks the GOP is waiting for just the right moment to put a knife in the back of its conservative Christian wing?"

"Knife"?? They may be a bit dumb at times, but hardly suicidal.

The GOP hopes to swoop in under the 'conservative Christian Wing' radar to avoid exposing it's obvious and pandering attempt at constructing it's All Things For All People 'Big Tent.' They will have to tread carefully...

As long as the Democrats keep on self-destructing, the GOP just may succeed in convincing 'centrist-moderates' that Dubya and the Pubbies may just be socially and fiscally liberal enough to give them shot.

[Randjuke]

The GOP hopes to swoop in under the 'conservative Christian Wing' radar

So it's a great right-wing conspiracy against the great right-wing conspiracy? We're going to need some new secret handshakes.

[k2blader]

Bump for later read and browse.

[breakem]

your 21 agrees with a guy who equates NAMBLA with the Log Cabin Republicans. Just wanted to know if you realized that and were doing it knowingly.

[breakem]

You call another poster a propagandist, ROTFLMAO. Here's some of your highlights Culture of Death, juggernaught, Culture of life, gaystapo............

On second thought, who better to recognize a propagandists.

[Quick1]

Exactly. In 2000, the gay vote went 25% for GWB, arguably handing him his margin of victory (1.1 million votes). Gore did win the popular vote by around 500k or so, unless you are talking about 1 million votes in Florida. Maybe I'm mistaken on what you mean by margin of victory.

[Quick1]

Do Pedophiles deserve respect? Necrophiliacs? Cannibals? If they are differnet, please tell us WHY they are different. Well for one, the fact that children, and dead people cannot give consent, while two adults can consent. I simply don't subscribe to the nanny government that watches everything people do in their bedrooms. If I choose to recieve oral sex (sodomy) from my wife, is that bad?

[Theodore R.]

“I would agree that is a matter of pause to me. I confess to some naivete.”

I'm not buying the line that Marc Racicot is naive. He is a seasoned hard-nosed politician -- the man G.W. Bush turned to secure the ballots in FL in November 2000. Racicot is conservative but he is NOT A CONSERVATIVE. And I don't think he believes in the family-values agenda other than to secure the votes for Bush in 2004 of those who accept this agenda. Racicot, if I am not mistaken, is a former Democrat. Perhaps there are elements of the "democratic process" that he can't shake loose even while serving as RNC chairman and soon as the new Bush campaign manager.

[ChuckMartelRox]

You're evading the question in post 67. It's very simple to answer: yes or no?

[DLfromthedesert]

So you condone aliens voting? That is AGAINST the law, but what-the-hey; standards are passe.

[CyberAnt]

Well ... I'm the BASE - and I'm not going anywhere.

[Trace21230]

"Gore did win the popular vote by around 500k or so, unless you are talking about 1 million votes in Florida. Maybe I'm mistaken on what you mean by margin of victory."

Seeing as how the difference in Florida was 537 votes, it is highly likely that the 25% of the gay vote that Bush got put him over the top and into the presidency.

It was probably the difference in other places as well. Who knows, if Bush can get 30 or 40 % of the gay vote, he takes WI, IA and some other close ones.

My point is that a gay person's vote counts just as much as Mr. Morality's vote; we should not concede anyone's vote.

Trace