When Republicans Shill for Democrats on Social Issues

In the last few days we’ve entered into a new phase in the campaign: Paul Manafort, the designated grownup in the Trump palace, has embarked on persuading Donald Trump to stop his degrading Twitter rants, and on persuading the RNC to learn to love its new, likely, master. “That’s what’s important for you to understand,” Manafort told the RNC. “That he gets it, and that the part he’s playing is evolving.”

Seen in this light, it is not clear that Trump’s decision to disappoint the pro-life movement by abandoning the strong party-platform language that pro-life advocates have worked for years to insert is actually a misstep rather than a tactical shift.

Or that Trump’s nearly simultaneous decision to throw the people of North Carolina, now under fierce attack by Hollywood and Silicon Valley, under the bus is also not intentional.

The professional political class hates social conservatism. Ana Navarro, the unfiltered voice of the Washington professional GOP, immediately tweeted her derision for the North Carolina law, saying she couldn’t imagine how to enforce the “bathroom stall police.”

Ted Cruz once again showed he understands who is responsible. He correctly told Glenn Beck: “You’ve got the Obama Education Department suing to try to force junior highs to let teenage boys shower with teenage girls.”

Beck seemed unaware of the fact. It has received scant media coverage. (I am trying to imagine some equivalent GOP-crafted education regulation that would be ignored by radio talk-show hosts and most of TV, including Fox News.)

“Aside from flabbing their lips,and using it as a campaign tool, what have the Republican House & Senate or President Ever done on ‘Social Issues’?”

You got that right, heights.

I happen to be strongly pro-life, among other things. However, I cannot tell everyone reading this post how many hundreds of different people have, over the decades, told me that the can’t vote for the Republican candidate because of social issues. They agreed on foreign policy, defense policy, economic policy, etc., etc. - but they were so turned off by the image (in their minds, but isn’t that what counts?) that the Republicans wanted to control their lives.

Most of the social issues are things that a President, or even the federal government, have NO BUSINESS WHATSOEVER being involved in. Abortion should be a state-level issue. Who gets married to whom should be a state-level issue. Who goes into which bathroom should be a state-level, or local-level issue. What is taught (or not) in our schools should be a state-level issue.

If we Republicans/conservatives would simply stick to the issues that a President and the Congress should be involved in, and leave the rest to the side (for the state and local candidates), then we’d win every Presidential election, and control the Congress for decades. The Dems are DEAD WRONG on every issue of importance, and most people know it - so why give them a reason to vote for those Leftist hacks? Win the big elections, and by the act of leading this country the right way you will have a tremendous influence over social policy. It is a decades-long process, just as the moral degrading of our country was a project that took decades to accomplish. With little or no power to change the moral tone, we Republicans/conservatives will continue to fail.

Unfortunately, the whole bathroom issue is just another in a long litany of STUPID positions taken by our side. Now, just to be clear, I am HORRIFIED that some lecherous guy might go into the girls’ bathroom and leer at (or worse) my 14-year-old daughter. I am DEAD SET AGAINST this latest garbage from the godless Left. But how stupid do we have to be to fight it in this manner? How easy do we have to make it for the other side to make fun of how stupid we are? After all, HOW do you enforce this stuff? Do you have Bathroom Police? Do you force everyone entering a bathroom to show a birth certificate? This is a tailor-made, purely Alinskyite tactic, used ONCE AGAIN very successfully to make every conservative look like an ass. I, for one, am glad that Trump didn’t go after that bait just to pander for votes - and I am just as certain that he would NOT want guys going into the same bathroom as his wife, daughters or grand-daughters.

This is an argument NOT about goals, but about the MEANS by which those goals can, politically-speaking, be accomplished. You want to stop same-sex marriage, abortion, guys going into women’s showers, etc., etc.? Good, so do I - but you CANNOT do that when you’ve been losing the education battles since the 1960s, when we get the likes of Clinton and Obama as President, who lead by BAD and IMMORAL example. Putting the cart before the horse is no way to get down the road to your destination.

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