Leave it to the Republican Party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
While nearly every poll definitively affirms that Democrats are in deep doo-doo come November and as leftist talking heads like Chris Matthews have already conceded a likelihood that Republicans will take the Senate in the 2014 mid-term elections many of the GOPs highest profile personalities obtusely refuse to take yes for an answer. Theyre evidently hell-bent on disenfranchising the partys pejoratively tagged social issues" majority.
Stupid stupid and stupid.
From mealy mouthed moderate establishment-types like Chris Christie to dovish libertine libertarians like Rand Paul it seems a majority of the GOP rock stars are scared gutless to set a single yellow-nailed pinky toe on the fevered culture war battlefield. They say its time to raise the white flag on traditional values.
Guys Im here to tell you the social issues" arent going away. But keep up this fatalistic nonsense and the GOPs Christian-conservative base just might. Morality-minded Americans are sick of it and we will choose fidelity to principle over surrender to ill-perceived pragmatism" every time.
Take presidential wannabe Rand Paul. This guy who by all appearances was shaping up to be a thoroughbred in the 2016 primary horserace may have just snapped a leg before the gates have even chimed open.
In a recent interview with the uber-liberal online rag Vocative.com Paul could hardly wait to take a matchstick to the official Republican Party social issues" platform (i.e. the sanctity of marriage natural human sexuality and morality ending the abortion holocaust religious liberty the Second Amendment and the like.)
Said Paul:
I think that the Republican Party in order to get bigger will have to agree to disagree on social issues. The Republican Party is not going to give up on having quite a few people who do believe in traditional marriage. But the Republican Party also has to find a place for young people and others who dont want to be festooned by those issues."
In other words the Republican Party must become a wussified version of the Democratic Party.
Democrat-lite.
Rand Rand Rand. This is the same failed tired reach-out-to-the-needy-independents strategy that brought us Presidents Dole McCain and Romney. What is it about the GOP that has it constantly biting the hand that feeds it while begging for a little scratch-behind-the-ear action from the fickle fingers of independent" indifference?
Theres an interesting aside to Pauls Vocative.com interview. My friend and nationally syndicated talk radio host Steve Deace made an interesting point in a recent email.
Wrote Deace:
By the way the website that Rand Paul did the interview with when he talked about needing to agree to disagree on social issues has stories titled Shame Free Guide to Hookups and Five Questions for the Creator of Direct Your Own Porn.
Can you imagine if Obama or any national Democrat figure for that matter gave an interview on public policy to a website that produces such content? Every conservative group in the country would be decrying how this is more evidence of Americas moral decline" said Deace.
Its also evidence frankly of the GOPs moral decline and loss of its historical moorings courage and resolve to stand firm on the transcendent non-negotiable issues of life liberty and the natural family marriage and human sexuality.
If the big ol dumb elephant continues on this ill-fated trajectory I can guarantee that the Christian-conservative base will abandon it as it has abandoned us. Although wed rather take the Ronald Reagan approach and reform the party from within I can promise you that we will if that becomes a lost cause form a new principled conservative values voters" third party.
If that happens Democrats will rule the roost indefinitely.
Now that is scary.
In his email Deace offered some wise counsel to Rand Paul and others who are squeamish on the social issues."
Heres what a libertarian like Rand Paul could say" he advised. Until somebody can prove their definition of rights doesnt cost somebody theyre already God-ordained rights the burden of proof remains. And right now were seeing these new rights costing people their free speech and religious freedom rights that were established at the founding of this republic. And thats something Americans of all persuasions on the marriage issue should be opposed to."
As Ive noted before Ronald Reagan often spoke of a three-legged stool" that undergirds what I call complete conservatism." The legs symbolize a strong national defense strong free-market principles and strong traditional social values. For the stool to remain upright it must be supported by all three legs. If you snap off even one leg the stool collapses under its own weight.
Why the GOP establishment seems determined to snap off the traditional social values leg thus collapsing the entire Republican Party stool defies all explanation.
Back in January I praised Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus for making several public pronouncements in defense of the social issues"-conservative Republican Party platform in general and the unalienable rights to both life and religious liberty in particular.
Reince you may want to have a sit-down with your party leadership and tell them to get their head in the game. If they dont we the GOP base may just decide to take our ball and go home.
Understand this: We social issues" conservatives (read: complete conservatives) will never stop playing the game. But if the Republican Party doesnt quit moving the goalposts we may just have to go stake out a new playing field.
Leave it to the Republican Party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
While nearly every poll definitively affirms that Democrats are in deep doo-doo come November and as leftist talking heads like Chris Matthews have already conceded a likelihood that Republicans will take the Senate in the 2014 mid-term elections many of the GOPs highest profile personalities obtusely refuse to take yes for an answer. Theyre evidently hell-bent on disenfranchising the partys pejoratively tagged social issues" majority.
Stupid stupid and stupid.
From mealy mouthed moderate establishment-types like Chris Christie to dovish libertine libertarians like Rand Paul it seems a majority of the GOP rock stars are scared gutless to set a single yellow-nailed pinky toe on the fevered culture war battlefield. They say its time to raise the white flag on traditional values.
Guys Im here to tell you the social issues" arent going away. But keep up this fatalistic nonsense and the GOPs Christian-conservative base just might. Morality-minded Americans are sick of it and we will choose fidelity to principle over surrender to ill-perceived pragmatism" every time.
Take presidential wannabe Rand Paul. This guy who by all appearances was shaping up to be a thoroughbred in the 2016 primary horserace may have just snapped a leg before the gates have even chimed open.
In a recent interview with the uber-liberal online rag Vocative.com Paul could hardly wait to take a matchstick to the official Republican Party social issues" platform (i.e. the sanctity of marriage natural human sexuality and morality ending the abortion holocaust religious liberty the Second Amendment and the like.)
Said Paul:
I think that the Republican Party in order to get bigger will have to agree to disagree on social issues. The Republican Party is not going to give up on having quite a few people who do believe in traditional marriage. But the Republican Party also has to find a place for young people and others who dont want to be festooned by those issues."
In other words the Republican Party must become a wussified version of the Democratic Party.
Democrat-lite.
Rand Rand Rand. This is the same failed tired reach-out-to-the-needy-independents strategy that brought us Presidents Dole McCain and Romney. What is it about the GOP that has it constantly biting the hand that feeds it while begging for a little scratch-behind-the-ear action from the fickle fingers of independent" indifference?
Theres an interesting aside to Pauls Vocative.com interview. My friend and nationally syndicated talk radio host Steve Deace made an interesting point in a recent email.
Wrote Deace:
By the way the website that Rand Paul did the interview with when he talked about needing to agree to disagree on social issues has stories titled Shame Free Guide to Hookups and Five Questions for the Creator of Direct Your Own Porn.
Can you imagine if Obama or any national Democrat figure for that matter gave an interview on public policy to a website that produces such content? Every conservative group in the country would be decrying how this is more evidence of Americas moral decline" said Deace.
Its also evidence frankly of the GOPs moral decline and loss of its historical moorings courage and resolve to stand firm on the transcendent non-negotiable issues of life liberty and the natural family marriage and human sexuality.
If the big ol dumb elephant continues on this ill-fated trajectory I can guarantee that the Christian-conservative base will abandon it as it has abandoned us. Although wed rather take the Ronald Reagan approach and reform the party from within I can promise you that we will if that becomes a lost cause form a new principled conservative values voters" third party.
If that happens Democrats will rule the roost indefinitely.
Now that is scary.
In his email Deace offered some wise counsel to Rand Paul and others who are squeamish on the social issues."
Heres what a libertarian like Rand Paul could say" he advised. Until somebody can prove their definition of rights doesnt cost somebody theyre already God-ordained rights the burden of proof remains. And right now were seeing these new rights costing people their free speech and religious freedom rights that were established at the founding of this republic. And thats something Americans of all persuasions on the marriage issue should be opposed to."
As Ive noted before Ronald Reagan often spoke of a three-legged stool" that undergirds what I call complete conservatism." The legs symbolize a strong national defense strong free-market principles and strong traditional social values. For the stool to remain upright it must be supported by all three legs. If you snap off even one leg the stool collapses under its own weight.
Why the GOP establishment seems determined to snap off the traditional social values leg thus collapsing the entire Republican Party stool defies all explanation.
Back in January I praised Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus for making several public pronouncements in defense of the social issues"-conservative Republican Party platform in general and the unalienable rights to both life and religious liberty in particular.
Reince you may want to have a sit-down with your party leadership and tell them to get their head in the game. If they dont we the GOP base may just decide to take our ball and go home.
Understand this: We social issues" conservatives (read: complete conservatives) will never stop playing the game. But if the Republican Party doesnt quit moving the goalposts we may just have to go stake out a new playing field.