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A republican could actually stand for something instead of acting like he was born to obstruct: he could insist on the end of bloated college payrolls and course offerings which drive up the cost of tuition; the phase out of state employee pensions, the immediate repair of roads and bridges, the end of easy tenure in large city schools, and the expedited treatment of nuclear plants.

You could pull in a lot of nominally liberal votes by being for some constructive things instead of against things.
There is nothign “unconservative” about insisting that city hospitals work, schools aren’t bankrupted by unions etc.

But, some repubs let the issues be hijacked by noisy one-issue people from the media. Worse, they tend to be “PEOPLE MAGAZINE” issues like gay marriage and undoing Roe v Wade that ought to be sidelined in serious discussions.

GOP candidates ought to refuse to discuss gay marriage and abortion, and insist they be left to state level resolution.

Any repub that wants to undo Roe v Wade belongs in the Catholic Church, not politics. Similarly, any repub that wants to make gay marriage a main issue is automatically reduced to a minor candidate and forfeits any serious respect on larger issues.

The GOP has to decide sooner or later if it prefers electoral extinction while supporting artificial “wedge issues,” foisted on the GOP by Democrats (laughing as the GOP takes the bait and offends people right and left) –or if it exists only to support Wall Street tax breaks and oppose gay marriage.

GOP “social issue” voters –spoiled babies–have to decide if they are really doing anyone a service by petulantly folding their arms and insisting- as the ship sinks- that they will oppose any candidate that is neutral on gay marriage, while letting the the budget bloat, schools disintegrate, the US Supreme Court get another liberal and Ms California be dissed by that pestiferous blogger. THAT is what you want to allow simply to prevent a bunch of gays from getting maried? Does the word “proportionality” mean anything to you?

The GOP then has to talk to the People, not the media. Bush’s error: it never was an error made by Nixon or Reagan.

And another thing: i know gay people that work harder, are more honest and that I’d trust with my life. I cannot look them in the face and defend oppsoition to gat marriage if that is what they want, even if it will result in them getting a nagging spouse and financial collapse in the event of divorce. How the social issue voters can do that is beyond me.

The GOP is on the wrong side of history on this issue. It’s use of it for temporary gain is hurting it and killing the country. Like Dad quit work to fill out noise reports on a neighbor and we’re all getting slaughtered while oblivious dad defaults on hsi amin job.