Posted on 07/30/2014 8:30:49 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
Republicans on K street are helping members of their party shift their stance on gay rights issues.
Kathryn Lehman, a top GOP lobbyist and partner at Holland and Knight carries a list of 40 to 50 Republican offices in the House and Senate she visits on behalf of Freedom to Marry, a group that backs same-sex marriage.
"The issue is losing its toxicity from a Republican perspective," she said, mentioning that the list was a fraction of that size when she first took on Freedom to Marry as a client in 2011.
Lehman... helped to write the Defense of Marriage Act while working on Capitol Hill...
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The GOPe relies way too much on consultants, who I suspect are mostly liberal Democrats. They should listen to their constituents for a change.
The only recourse left is, is we (conservatives) are tired of being betrayed and are leaving the Republicans Party and forming our own party. If you don’t like it, then tough.
If you (the GOP-e) want to talk about why we shouldn’t leave, then first of all stop attacking Tea Partiers and never do this again. And defend them when Dems attack them. Secondly, always defend our position on traditional marriage. Third, no more borrow-and-spend, ever.
Do these three, and we will then compromise on the three major issues that you in the GOP-e want.
If not, then adios...
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Just start digging the grave now. The GOP is dead.
“GOP candidates run on traditional issues, and then bait and switch and spend most of their time defending banker-bailouts, defending borrow-and-spend and increasing the deficit, won’t reach out to Tea Partiers and so on.”
...and I contend they have never changed they were always squishy and if you really knew them, you too would know. They were never Conservative, more like fence sitting moderates. They cannot stand real conservatives, way too much principle and not nearly enough go along to get along.
From blacktie-dc.com
https://www.blacktie-dc.com/photos/photodetail.cfm?id=1680
Enthralling.
from a liberal blogger:
Republican Lesbian Who Helped Write DOMA, Is Now Lobbying To Repeal It (focus on Kathyrn Lehman)
I won’t provide a link to this, you can find it yourself or just trust me....
The GOP-e has the BIG $$$, the Super Pacs, and several so-called “journalists,” columnists, and media types practically in their pockets.
But conservatives/Tea partiers are the ones who get out and vote. The GOP-e can't win on their own. They may have the $$$, but 400-500 GOP-e big time $$$ spenders won't do very well when it is 400-500 votes versus 75,000,000 Dems voting.
If conservatives don't go and vote, no Republican wins. Period.
And what I posted in post #43 isn't asking too much of the GOP-e, either.
Sadly, this woman who promotes perversion on Capitol Hill is a graduate of two institutions that are religiously connected:
Education
Oral Roberts University, B.A.
Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, J.D.
http://www.hklaw.com/Kathryn-Lehman/
Sad.
I assume that you didn’t intend for your post to look like it was addressed at me?
Quite honestly, I couldn’t care less about the gay marriage issue. I’m not for it, but it’s inevitable that it will be accepted everywhere. Judges are tyrannically overruling votes on it, so there’s nothing that will be done through legislation.
There are more important things going on in this country that need to be addressed. The fact that this issue is at the top of everyone’s radar just stuns me. The media and Hollyweird have FAR too much influence on the culture of this country.
but they keep saying we should vote for the “lesser evil” on election day.
Sometimes there is nothing but evil. Better to skip the race than endorse any evil.
Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz need to form that Freedom Party already.
bump
You were/are correct that the GOP-e and libertarians are at war with conservatives. The GOP-e is at war with conservatives on both fiscal issues and social issues, and libertarians are at war with conservatives pretty much just on social issues.
A truce can be reached with libertarians: Conservatives can say they will no longer support an unending war position, and libertarians can drop their attacks on conservatives over social issues. One for one.
Together, libertarians and conservatives can tell the GOP-e that their war on conservatives has to end, or conservatives will leave.
The Whigs were all about compromise and getting along with the Democrats. The Whigs tried to silence Whigs who were pro-personhood (they had the odd belief that a person couldn't own another person) and who believed in the sanctity of marriage (they opposed polygamy).
Eventually the socially conservative Whigs such as Abraham Lincoln formed the Republican Party and the very first GOP platform in 1856 called for the containment of the "twin relics of barbarism — Polygamy, and Slavery" (four years later, they were calling for the complete abolition of slavery and polygamy was put on the back burner until after Reconstruction).
So, the GOP was FOUNDED ON SOCIALLY CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES and was the dominant national party for over a half a century as a result. This happened when the REJECTED compromise. If the GOP no longer stands for conservative principles, then it no longer deserves to have conservatives in the party.
I agree! Anyone who shifts their core beliefs while running or thinking of running is not worthy of trust.
We can deal with those so-called “more important things” and others (like this issue) as well, given that we can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time.
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