Tsa`ah
10-31-2008, 10:48 AM
As I've said in the past, conservatives (the real conservatives) really need to take a good look around the "conservative party.
It started with as a trickle with the Newt crowd, talk radio picked up the banner as personalities such as Rush became prominent at center stage ... only to have the Hannitys, O'Reilys, Savages, and Malkins to join in as a choir. Then .... it happened. You were sold down the river by a guy claiming he was a "compassionate" conservative. Soon God was talking to him and evangelical nut jobs flocked to him.
We've seen science challenged as a farce, we've watched tax dollars find their way to institutions that are tax exempt. We've seen campaigns waged from the pulpits and theology worming it's way into our laws and potentially our constitution.
To think that the same divisive theological mind set courted by southern democrats until Kennedy. The same "patriotic" radicals that help sway over elected officials during the McCarthy era ... the very type of person that presidents such as Carter and Reagan refused to allow influence over the majority, were able to creep into the back door of another party before Reagan passed.
These are the people that sunk the McCain that was endeared by moderates, independents, and centrist republicans and democrats alike. These are the people that McCain jumped into bed with due to ambition. Ambition that led to the selection a Jr Bush in a skirt.
For nearly a decade your GOP has truly turned into a God Only Party. It has permeated beyond the central party figures and into the Senate and House campaigns. Godliness has become synonymous with patriotism ... not any Godliness, just good old gay hating, non-Christian condemning, divisive asshats that are nothing more than stone's throw from the Phelp's clan.
If your name is funny, if your skin isn't the right tone, if you dare criticize US policy ... you're not only less than patriotic, you're not only anti-American ... you're a sympathizer, appeaser, a potential terrorist. If you're not a God fearing Christian American ... you're suspect at best.
Recently we've heard about a republican House member, Bachmann ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann), rip a page right out of the McCarthy era by calling on the media to investigate congress for "anti-American" sentiment. This from a woman who has done her damndest to have Intelligent Design taught as a science ... a woman who gives out sermons from the stump ... a woman that God spoke to.
Frankly, I could probably list many more .. but this is rapidly becoming a wall of text. So I'll just wrap it up with NC and Liddy Dole.
Liddy Dole, bless her 72 year old heart, had to carpet bag to her home state ,after a 59 year absence, to run for Senate in order to succeed Jesse Helms (and what a prize that douche bag was). Dole represents everything her husband wasn't ... and that's the new breed of Republican (I'm sorry ... I just can't bring myself to refer to any of them as conservatives).
This year, recently, Liddy has been losing ground to her Democratic rival Kay Hagan. In desperation, Liddy has released a new campaign commercial (http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/1008/Dole_still_keeping_the_faith.html) that claims her opponent is Godless and accepts "Godless" money. Never mind that this really shouldn't be an issue ... but to flat out lie? Hagan and her family have attended the same church for multiple generations. Kay Hagan has taught (maybe still does) Sunday School.
Is this the "conservative" party you people are comfortable with? Do you see any good ever coming from this?
It started with as a trickle with the Newt crowd, talk radio picked up the banner as personalities such as Rush became prominent at center stage ... only to have the Hannitys, O'Reilys, Savages, and Malkins to join in as a choir. Then .... it happened. You were sold down the river by a guy claiming he was a "compassionate" conservative. Soon God was talking to him and evangelical nut jobs flocked to him.
We've seen science challenged as a farce, we've watched tax dollars find their way to institutions that are tax exempt. We've seen campaigns waged from the pulpits and theology worming it's way into our laws and potentially our constitution.
To think that the same divisive theological mind set courted by southern democrats until Kennedy. The same "patriotic" radicals that help sway over elected officials during the McCarthy era ... the very type of person that presidents such as Carter and Reagan refused to allow influence over the majority, were able to creep into the back door of another party before Reagan passed.
These are the people that sunk the McCain that was endeared by moderates, independents, and centrist republicans and democrats alike. These are the people that McCain jumped into bed with due to ambition. Ambition that led to the selection a Jr Bush in a skirt.
For nearly a decade your GOP has truly turned into a God Only Party. It has permeated beyond the central party figures and into the Senate and House campaigns. Godliness has become synonymous with patriotism ... not any Godliness, just good old gay hating, non-Christian condemning, divisive asshats that are nothing more than stone's throw from the Phelp's clan.
If your name is funny, if your skin isn't the right tone, if you dare criticize US policy ... you're not only less than patriotic, you're not only anti-American ... you're a sympathizer, appeaser, a potential terrorist. If you're not a God fearing Christian American ... you're suspect at best.
Recently we've heard about a republican House member, Bachmann ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann), rip a page right out of the McCarthy era by calling on the media to investigate congress for "anti-American" sentiment. This from a woman who has done her damndest to have Intelligent Design taught as a science ... a woman who gives out sermons from the stump ... a woman that God spoke to.
Frankly, I could probably list many more .. but this is rapidly becoming a wall of text. So I'll just wrap it up with NC and Liddy Dole.
Liddy Dole, bless her 72 year old heart, had to carpet bag to her home state ,after a 59 year absence, to run for Senate in order to succeed Jesse Helms (and what a prize that douche bag was). Dole represents everything her husband wasn't ... and that's the new breed of Republican (I'm sorry ... I just can't bring myself to refer to any of them as conservatives).
This year, recently, Liddy has been losing ground to her Democratic rival Kay Hagan. In desperation, Liddy has released a new campaign commercial (http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/1008/Dole_still_keeping_the_faith.html) that claims her opponent is Godless and accepts "Godless" money. Never mind that this really shouldn't be an issue ... but to flat out lie? Hagan and her family have attended the same church for multiple generations. Kay Hagan has taught (maybe still does) Sunday School.
Is this the "conservative" party you people are comfortable with? Do you see any good ever coming from this?