I think not.
Charles Johnson seems to be conveniently forgetting the Judeo-Christian principles that founded this country and made it to be the country it is today where anyone can become their own squawk box.
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Good to know where the flakes at LGF stand. Good riddance.
I’m OK with social conservatives being a solid core of the GOP as long as they are firm believers in limited government as well. No more Mike (”I love God and gubmint cheese, too”) Huckabee types.
Social conservativism isn’t the problem. The problem is that the Republicans are tied to Wall St. and big business and a lot of Americans have problems with CEOs destroying companies and walking away with millions.
I always enjoyed Sliders, but never dreamed I'd get in an episode. Looks like I did because the RATS on my world are talking about redistributing wealth by giving tax credits to people who don't pay taxes, mandating a new retirement plan through an additional 5% payroll tax and destroying 401(k)'s. I'd better check on what else is different on this world since 1988. Maybe the Amiga is the dominant computer as it should have been on mine.
HOGWASH!! So MONEY is the only thing that counts in this country???? Then let it fall in the ocean because it wasn’t founded and graced by GOD to be MONEY BASED.
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“As much as anything else, this election was a referendum on the social conservative agenda”
Sure it was, which is why abortion, gay marriage etc. got almost no attention in the election. One question on abortion tied to judges inthe debates and one question regarding gay marriage in the VP debate.
by the way gay marriage failed in three large states.
No I think we should double-down on being spineless, Country-Club, DC cocktail creates of Washington DC. WHO IS WITH ME!?!? Let’s all get invited on Rachel Maddow and trash conservatism woohoo!
Well wasnt the reasoning behind McCain being the best the Republicans could offer, because he was Maverick and didnt toe the conservative line? Look how that turned out.
“Those days are long gone. Since 1988, Democrats have become more conservative on economics – and Republicans have become more conservative on social issues. “
That is quite simply, wrong.
Both parties are in fact, more liberal on economics than they were in 1988 The Dems have moved to outright anti-capitialism, high taxation, and redistribution of the wealth. Republicans have moved away from a free market approach to a managed economic approach.
The Republican party has not changed on social issues. Hollywood/MSM has moved to the left and it seems as though the Republicans have moved to the right (would a TV show titled “Sex in the City” been even possible in 1984? Was gay marriage even thought of in 1984?)
The GOP needs to do a “Day in the Life” film of an average American to illustrate the burden that government places on people.
Progressives have taken over the schools,colleges and media and government jobs. The rest of the country will catch hell. Watch.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!! Charles Johnson is on crack if he genuinely believes anything even remotely along those lines!
"Moderate" Republicans were given carte blanche opportunity to demonstrate, once and for all, that they knew how to win at the national level, this year.
They got exactly the candidate they wanted. They got exactly the party platform they wanted. The campaign was run exactly the way they wanted it run.
How'd that end up working out, again...?
Frum is a RINO. He thinks we’ve become more conservative on social issues? I don’t think so. It’s just that killing babies is not something to negotiate.
No way on EARTH that conservatives can win without social conservatives. And religion is not incompatible with being in college, or at least it should not be. I believe Newman Clubs and other organizations are doing pretty well in many places. Not, certainly, among leftists, but among Young Republicans.
I’d be sorry to lose Little Green Footballs. They have often been useful, and do a lot of good stuff.
As for Huckabee, he is not conservative at all. He’s a snakeoil salesman. I think Evangelicals would have figured that out, eventually, but they tended to take him at his word when he appeared on the national scene.
If fiscal conservatives, constitutional conservatives, and social conservatives can’t work together, then forget it. The conservative movement will be dead. That’s why liberals and the MSM always try to drive wedges between them. Conservatives should not be helping them do that.
Calling Jindal a fundamentalist is about as wrong-headed as one would expect for a country-club Republican to get.