#54 Tim Garret:
” And if you truly dissect your ideology… I think you’d see that you are actually supposed to be Pro-Choice and Pro-gay rights.”
If we’re going to talk about “Truth” here, then let’s have a heaping helping of it all the way around the table.
Both of the narrow interest groups that you’ve identified as your own form of “litmus test”:
(“Abortion and gay rights. At least for us young independents (I am 26). It is those two issues that instantly will put most of my peers into the democratic column.”)
Are Statist to their very core. They seek to empower the government, and you cannot empower the state unless it be at the expense of the citizenry.
If you support “Gay Rights”,(so-called), you will be supporting a VAST increase of the Federal bureaucracy modelled consciously along the lines of Affirmative Action and suchlike.
Okay…so what? I hear you replying…well, once you create jobs programs for civil servants, then the government has a vested interest in never making the “problem” go away, see? In fact, I could argue that the rise to prominence of these issues on the national stage has as much to do with bureaucrats and their lawyer allies looking to strike another rich vein of identified “-ism” to mine.
Now, to specifics of truth.
Abortion. Don’t be taken in by the characterization of GOP or Conservatives as being this monolithic “Borg”, of identically lockstep position seeking to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Nothing could be further from the Truth.
Fact of the matter is that I reckon most folks would rather abortion be, as Clinton put it: “Safe, Legal…and Rare”.
I don’t want to see abortion criminalized, and being realistic, there’s no way it could be.
But if you’re over 21, I don’t want to subsidize it.
And THAT’s what the Leftist thrust concerning abortion is REALLY about…little more than a public subsidy to abortionists and the host of counsellors and co-ordinators and other parasites in symbiosis with them.
Gays and Gay Marriage. As much as they’d deny it, Gays aren’t looking for a state marriage license to validate their relationships, but rather as a cynical maneuver towards societal affirmation of their sexual preference/orientation,(scientifically, the jury’s still out on “born” or “learned”).
And the goal of getting this affirmation, the “Stamp of Approval” on their lifestyle is to allow them to get into the schools openly and gain access to the children.
Because if gayness is a “learned” behavior more than a hereditary one, then Gays would be extinct…unless they can recruit new bed partners.
Where better for them to do this than in the schools, among impressionable and vulnerable children?
And lastly, yet another nugget of truth:
” Does it shift to the center and follow the likes of Moderate Republicans like John McCain?”
Well, the GOP didn’t get enough of your votes to overcome the number of votes that was lost from the base.
What do you think the answer is going to be?
