It is very easy to see why the GOP is in decline, at least those who just drink the conservative Kool-Aid and nothing else. The GOP is dead until they become the party of small government that
doesn't get into people's bedrooms. The GOP says they are into
individual rights over group rights on one hand while on the other
interfere with a person's most intimate life decisions. Don't like
homosexual marriage? Don't marry a homosexual. Don't like abortions.
Don't get an abortion. Want your children to go to a school where they
pray to Jesus every morning, where they teach the bible or creationism
as fact? Send them to a religious school. You don't do anything to
inspire the people who probably agree with 90-95% of the GOP platform.
You force many of us who want to vote for the Republican party to vote
for the party of big-government social justice because of your attitudes
that reflect a culture war that essentially ended decades ago.
The GOP has offered neither a strong intellectual argument or a convincing emotional one to convince people to vote for them. Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity do not even begin to compare the conservative intellectuals like William F. Buckley or Irving Kristol of the last century. If your tent is not big enough for Republicans like Chris Christie (basically those from states with large urban populations) because he dared jump off the bandwagon for five minutes because he realized that the destruction NJ suffered after Sandy was more than one state could bare alone, then you have no future.
There are so many legitimate issues to fight Democrats on such as drones, spying, unfair taxes etc. More and more people just don't care about gay marriage or abortion. The bible is book on how to get to heaven while on earth, not rule the heavens and earth. There is no pent up demand for the type of conservatism many have deluded themselves into believing is wanted and the sooner you realize the better off this country will be. There will be no true opposition party otherwise, unless the RINOs either kick the "conservatives" out or form a third part that will make the current GOP as relevant as the Whigs.
The GOP has offered neither a strong intellectual argument or a convincing emotional one to convince people to vote for them. Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity do not even begin to compare the conservative intellectuals like William F. Buckley or Irving Kristol of the last century. If your tent is not big enough for Republicans like Chris Christie (basically those from states with large urban populations) because he dared jump off the bandwagon for five minutes because he realized that the destruction NJ suffered after Sandy was more than one state could bare alone, then you have no future.
There are so many legitimate issues to fight Democrats on such as drones, spying, unfair taxes etc. More and more people just don't care about gay marriage or abortion. The bible is book on how to get to heaven while on earth, not rule the heavens and earth. There is no pent up demand for the type of conservatism many have deluded themselves into believing is wanted and the sooner you realize the better off this country will be. There will be no true opposition party otherwise, unless the RINOs either kick the "conservatives" out or form a third part that will make the current GOP as relevant as the Whigs.
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