11-05-2008, 02:39 PM | #11 | |
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But on the other hand, change will be difficult. If the party drops the religiously-motivated social rhetoric, it risks losing the voting bloc that has perhaps singlehandedly kept the party viable. To end its love affair with fiscal mismanagement, it will have to stop the overindulgent defense spending and stop offering fake tax cuts; and in the case of the former, the party loses its identity (that is, its identity outside of the religious right), and with the latter, it loses its most effective selling point. The fact that Palin -- the embodiment of compassionate-conservative religious-right politics -- is still being heralded as "the rising star" of the party, makes me wonder whether the party is really going to be willing to reform. |
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11-05-2008, 02:40 PM | #12 |
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11-05-2008, 02:44 PM | #13 | |
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Do you think all your reborn donut-eating friends would really vote for a Democrat if the GOP dropped its social platform? Or would they just not vote? |
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I thought when the students at our religion's owned university protested the tights worn on those well rounded buttocks at Gold's Gym the RR would welcome us and our Mitt with open arms, alas our belief on Jesus' geneology did us in. We will survive!
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11-05-2008, 02:46 PM | #15 |
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Oh absolutely...I was just joking. One of the values in my mind (to the Mormon church) of dropping the social platform is that it would make Mormons think for themselves in a political sense and not an "us against the Satan-controlled world" sense. Mormons used to be heavily Democratic.
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With the Mormons leading the charge in California maybe the RR will let Mitt gently lead them by the hand.......
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11-05-2008, 02:46 PM | #17 |
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No I don't. We're not part of a cohesive unit, and we belong nowhere. In many respects, Mormons are wannabees. But they are more effective when they are Harry Reid, or Mitt Romney, pragmatists with no label.
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