Posted on 06/13/2013 1:44:28 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The fight for the soul of the Republican Party intensifies this week as Republican leaders gather in Washington to court religious conservatives.
The Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group created by former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed, is launching a conference Thursday designed to strengthen the evangelical influence in national politics while giving many religious conservative activists their first look at potential 2016 presidential candidates. …
Reed told The Associated Press that religious conservatives have a simple message for GOP leaders: “Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the pro-life, pro-family and pro-marriage positions that candidates have taken and will take in the future are not a liability at the ballot box; they’re an asset.”
The Republican National Committee does not necessarily agree. Just three months ago, (Reince) Priebus endorsed an RNC report that linked the future success of the Republican Party to more tolerant attitudes on social issues such as gay marriage. …
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That’s what the liberals did.
It’s the one that WORKS. Winners write history.
GOP leaders court social conservatives
***Yeah, right. And the bear is catholic, and the pope poops in the woods, and the fireman’s house burns down every Tuesday due to Lightning.
I think the correct word is “stalk” not “court”.
Gravitate to a third party... perhaps to the US Constitution Party and swell their numbers. The infrastructure for an existing party is already in place.
All of the above! A, B and C, all those approaches need to be enacted with the mantra, “Why pass any new laws when current laws don’t mean anything!”
Remove the plank on social issues and the Republican party becomes the Liberaltarian party that can't get elected to anything anywhere.
Let the Demonrats be the party of queers, commies, and race baiting poverty pimps. Target them as exactly that and don't allow any Demonrat to claim to be anything but one or more of those three wings of the party.
The GOP is moribund.
Interesting headline, that.If Republican leaders have to “court” social conservatives then they are outside of social conservatism. If social/economic conservatives i.e. real Conservatives, do not shed the Republican Party very soon and become a new party then conservatism has no future in America.
Unfortunately Communism and Islam, Islamic Communism as it were, are progressing much faster than conservatives are taking over the GOP from the inside. Actually conservatives are NOT making progress in the Republoican Party. Most of the Tea Party candidates become establishment Progressive Republican officeholders.There is a small number that speaks forcefully but they are not enough and that number is only shrinking from ideological attrition, Marco Rubio being the most blatant example.
That is what it is.
Court? LMAO They ignore what I want, but call me for money on a regular basis. I tell them NO. Not much of a relationship.
You’re idea sounds intruiging, but is it really doable? You have people like me who have been Republicans since birth so it would be hard to let go. But after witnessing their response to the NSA scandal I’m beginning to say ‘screw the GOPers.”
Social issues? It seems the GOP can’t even get the THAT part correct
How about Liberty, Freedom and the Constitution? Those/most ‘social issues’ become moot w/out Life and Liberty. But, oh, those ‘crazy’ (L) who want to XYZ; at least they are basing their platform on A1S8 and/or 9th/10th.
Stake it, chop of its head, burn it and nuke it from orbit...the GOP is dead and no friend to We the People nor the Constitution (if the current NSA fiasco didn’t give a clue).
The fact remains that Liberaltarians can’t get elected to anything. Can’t get elected = there must be a reason for that = powerless.
And yet your denigrate and blame THEM for the ills of today....
Let me know how ‘working to re-take the GOP’ is going for you. I’m sure the party will be re-taking the Senate right after amnesty is passed.
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