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Being tolerant of gay rights isn’t a play against the gay 2% of the vote.

It’s a play for the libertarians in the 36% MODERATE chunk of the vote. Those same moderates who may be leary of voting alongside social conservatives.

You don’t have to like the gays. In fact, you don’t even have to deal with them.

But we need the moderates.

Whatever RINOCare may or may not be the truth is that the left will always ALWAYS try to push universal healthcare because it is the single most effective avenue for fabian socialists everywhere.

If you look at the successful socialist incrementalist processes in Europe, it all began with government healthcare programs perpetrated around the same time FDR foisted his “New Deal Socialism” programs in the US.

The left MUST keep trying to impose government authority over healthcare because it’s the single most proven play in their playbook.

As conservatives we’ve been attempting to erode and privatize social security and medicare for four decades with little success. Once a social entitlement program is instituted the fabian socialist approach is to pack that institution with unionized voters who will never allow the institution to be repealed.

The challenge thus is to either prevent the institution of new entitlement regimes forever (which is a downhill battle in most cases) or PRE-EMPT SOCIALIST PROGRAMS and install a free-market based institution which serves the intended role whilst enshrining free enterprise, individual freedom and personal responsibility forever.

When GWB pushed medicare part D, a successful and extremely popular private-sector based pharmaceutical medicare benefit, what he ACTUALLY succeeded in doing was PRE-EMPTING the socialist clamor for free medicine with a program that employs dramatic free-market systems that encourage individual choice at minimal cost to the consumer.

Like Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D is immensely popular, fiscally sound, tremendously successful and HATED BY OBAMA. Even though Medicare Advantage has a proven track record (seniors under Medicare Advantage have a 27% less likelihood of going to the emergency room) Obama is so frustrated about its free-market approach that he’s trying to cut its funding just to diminish its effectiveness (and thus popularity).

If RINOCare isn’t some handout program like Obamacare and is instead something close to what the GOP has proposed that includes massive reductions in entitlements, privatization and personal Health Savings Accounts (like Singapore), then it is the conservatives best hope of blocking socialist incrementalism FOREVER.