Comments on: Social conservatives ponder future role in GOP

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:07:01 +0000

Hah. I gots 89% and I’m a Canadian of European extraction.

Although I had to bite the bullet and give the obvious answers even if I disagreed, multiple choice tests being what they are.

By: Stevemd2

Stevemd2 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:20:41 +0000

.” I’m guessing that gay people get better scores than straight people. Other studies have shown that gay people excel on intelligence tests, are more likely than heterosexuals to go on to college, and are much more likely to vote”. Quote.

The repubs appear to be dominated by right wing religious people who in afghanistan would be called the taliban. Of course these people, blinded by religion, are victims of the super-wealthy of the republican party, whose real goal is the defined by their God of Greed. And they use religion to blind the repub lesser educated people, while they steal them blind. And under Bush republicanism, they stole the whole country.

If you recognize how the repubs made ‘liberal’ a dirty word to some people, we need to make the repubs “Bushites” – and you can guess what profanities it needs to mean in peoples minds.

By: Jason21TX

Jason21TX — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:11:13 +0000

Let them go back to their social conservatives. The ignorant, religious christian taliban, etc.

It will be their demise. GOOD RIDDANCE.

Maybe the war against religious terrorism needs to be fought her at home.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:00:01 +0000

Actually, the GOP got trashed in this election not because of their conservative social values, but because they lost credibility as custodians of the economy. Traditionally the GOP has touted the Dems as fiscally irresponsible and themselves as careful accountants. The Bush Administration sank that idea completely. Even many social conservatives voted Democrat this time around because they felt that the GOP was incapable of arresting the economy’s downward spiral that had begun on their watch. But as we saw with three more bans on same-sex marriage winning at the polls, a Democrat victory does not automatically mean that America has swung far to the Left. We should be wary of getting cocky. Especially because now the GOP will be looking for any angle they can attack the Dems on, and gays and abortion are already at the top of the list.

By: RJLigier

RJLigier — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:17:58 +0000

Exactly. It’s readily apparent that this nation is exclusively interested in social liberalism or social conservatism. Better the social liberals find common ground regarding fiscal and personal responsibility, national security, and limited government with like minded social liberals than for conservatives to continually monitor social liberals undermining core principles regarding conservativism. I hire social liberals and social conservatives because I am federally mandated to do so and because I want the best workforce. Politically speaking, I’m not required to join your party if I disagree with your political positions nor do I want individuals who cannot provide constructive debate.

By: blacksteel

blacksteel — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:27:28 +0000

From Candace Gingrich: A Letter to My Brother Newt Gingrich

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/candace-gingrich/a-letter-to-my-brother-ne_b_145739.html

By: Theo

Theo — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:04:58 +0000

I scored a 90.91% on the civics quiz-what does that say about me?

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:19:55 +0000

I made 94% on the test, called Our Fading Heritage. The average score was 49%, a fairly low F. I’m guessing that gay people get better scores than straight people. Other studies have shown that gay people excel on intelligence tests, are more likely than heterosexuals to go on to college, and are much more likely to vote. I think poor civics knowledge is probably part of the reason why we in the US have let our country slide into its current economic and social mess.

If the Republican party continues to embrace intolerant, socially conservative values, maybe Democratic influence will keep growing and we as a nation will finally catch up to the rest of the Western world on LGBT rights.

By: blacksteel

blacksteel — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:58:01 +0000

Morgan said: “I decided right there and then to take the plunge and flee the GOP for good. … A good decision, not a perfect one, but one I do not regret making.”

I’ve known many others like you who eventually became ex-Republican gays. My own family was 100% Republican and vilified Democrats. But, as soon as I reached voting age, I knew which party supported my economic and social interests. I registered as a Democrat.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:27:33 +0000

For years I was a Repugnantkin for no better reason than my father (who went Independent after Richard Nixon) and my grandfather were. My grandfather was a polite, soft-spoken gentleman with never a mean word to say about anyone. As were the other men his age he knew and sssociated with. He played golf and belonged to a philosophy club. He dearly loved his wife and was always very considerate of her. He was very gracious to the African American woman who helped my grandnother keep up the house. Those days of polite, soft-spoken, mild-mannered, gentlemmenly men we knew who were living in the Midwest in the GOP are a thing of the long ago past. In a another bygone era. We did the dishes by hand, and used a scrub board in the concrete sink, clothes washer with wrinnger arm, hung clothes on the line to dry, kept potatoes and onions in a storage room in the basement.

A long time ago dated in my life from 1955 to 1966 when I came to Maryland from Shaker Heights, Ohio at age 12+.

the GOP party and I grew apart about 20 some years ago starting with Patrick Buchanan and the nasty, nasty televized GOP presidential convention featuring that awful antigay Patrick Buchanan pledging cultural war.

Eventually I switched to the Democrat party after Trent Lott compared homosexuality to alcoholism and kleptomania, that was the “straw that broke the camel’s back” for me.
I had enough of Jesse Helms, Newt Gingrich, Trent Lott, Patrick Buchanan, Pat Robertson, Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition, Jerry Falwell, Rick Santorum etc and wondered how I could continue to remain in a party filled with these awful tyrants.

My chance to switch to Democrat party came at Montgomery County, Maryland’s Gay Pride Day which was being held back then at Montgomery College.

There was an official from the local Democrat party who could help me to switch parties by having me fill out a form to change political parties, so I decided right there and then to take the plunge and flee the GOP for good. That happened in 1997, 11 years ago I believe.
A good decision, not a perfect one, but one I do not regret making.