Barry Goldwater once said (and I am paraphrasing here, anyone with the actual quote handy, I’d appreciate it) that “the religious are going to ruin the GOP”. Now, I’m more than aware of how Goldwater drifted left for lack of a better term later in his life, but last night I couldn’t help but wonder about Goldwater’s remarks on what we now call the “religious right”...
...did he happen to foresee the day where a very sizable portion of the GOP would simply vote for somebody (like Huckabee) because he’s a preacher?
Repeat after me: Single issue voters.
They see Christian and forget about just how bad an overbearing, meddling federal government can be.
Here’s the quote:
“Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy.
They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.”
The immoral presstitutes are claiming evangelical when the support is from mainstream protestant voters.
The numbers of actual evangelicals is very small, a minority of protestants
We’re in this mess not because of the religious right, without which the GOP would have never achieved majority status. We’re in this mess because of George Bush’s “compassionate conservatism”. Huckabee won because he’s liberal on a ton of issues and even Republican voters are now scared of true right-wingers.
“did he happen to foresee the day where a very sizable portion of the GOP would simply vote for somebody (like Huckabee) because he’s a preacher”
You, too, missed the point this writer was making. They didn’t vote for Huckabee because he’s a preacher. They voted for him because the others simply were not acceptable to them in a social conservative vein. This is one piss poor field of candidates to choose from when Huckabee is the best they have. Duncan Hunter is both social & fiscal conservative. He would pass the evangelical test if people were adequately informed.