Monday, April 1, 2013

Dead Elephant News: "Social conservatives fight back."

Yet as some party intellectuals are openly wondering if the heyday of the Religious Right has come and gone, social conservatives are now responding with ferocity, indicting John McCain and Mitt Romney for their losses and bluntly warning that the GOP will cease to exist if the party abandons those voters who are in the party because of, not despite, its platform on culture. If cultural conservatives are headed toward extinction, they are making clear they won’t go away without a fight.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Arn't they already the Whig party? They've lost their way and are drifting in the chaotic winds of polling. You can't trust them to stand up for or articulate any issue - even one supposedly core to their beliefs.

I don't have to agree with every policy or belief a party has, but I have to know what it stands for to make an informed decision on how to vote.

A party that stands for nothing deserves to go away just like the Whigs did - and the quicker the better.

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry but as a libertarian 3per I can't see any difference in those who would ignore the Constitution and the lawful limits imposed on government which restrain the majority from violating the unalienable rights of everyone else in order to establish their ideal society of "family values" and dictate what is or is not moral by law.I refuse to believe that our founders intended a government powerful enough to tell us what we can or cannot place in our own bodies or that we need to sacrifice liberty for security,and more then I would accept a government run by collectivists who think they can order me to buy a product and tax the hell out of me "for my own good",as well as dictate to me what rights I do or do not have based on what they say is for my own good or for the "good of the children".

Time to obey limits on what government can do,time to leave people the hell alone,time to live by the credo that my rights only end where the next persons rights begin-
Not where bloated,out of control government -from either side of the isle- sets arbitrary "laws" ending rights it has no place legislating about to begin with.

To hell with both the moron AND the moral majority.

David Forward said...

I find it interesting that the cultural warriors on the right, and especially those in the Republican Party are claiming to be fighting for individual liberty against the destructive elements of the progressives who are grabbing more and more power over society, yet their alternative to the liberty restricting laws of the progressives is to institute their own social laws defining how people should or shouldn't live.

When you have the boot of tyranny crushing your neck,it matters not whether it is a right or left boot.

William Flatt said...

So the morally-self-righteous wing of the Boot On Your Neck Party has finally spoken...

Now can we finally bury the dead elephant, or has it already turned zombie?

Obamazombies are bad enough, but what really scares me are people who profess to be fellow Christians, who hardly study their Bible, who don't make a concerted effort to live a more Christlike life, who can't even get the 4th Commandment right (the 7th day Sabbath, FYI, was never abolished or transferred to the pagan 'Dies Solis' - 'Venerable Day of the Sun'). At least the Catholics are being honest when they say that the change of observance from Sabbath to Sunday was instituted by the Church of Rome and IS a MARK of the Church's ecclesiastical authority! ....anyhow....

All forms of collectivism to impose a twisted and corrupt version of religious text is jihad by any definition.

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
- Thomas Jefferson

Paul X said...

What we have here, is far too many people (on all sides of the political spectrum) minding somebody else's business. When social conservatives give up on their love for government, I will be impressed. But I don't expect it to happen. The internal contradictions will continue to shred the movement.