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Originally Posted by WanganRunner
The GOP is going to be hugely re-organized following their upcoming crushing defeat. The social conservative are going to get hung out to dry as the party refocuses on capturing fiscally conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats. The GOP of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney is effectively dead, you'd better be able to find yourself a place in a new GOP that more closely resembles the "Rockefeller Republicans" or else you'll find yourself marginalized.
Social conservatism is dead in America.
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Oh no, my friend, social conservatism is NOT dead in America. Not by a long shot. There are too many born-agains and bible-thumpers out there to allow social conservatism to die. I live in a bastion of conservativism with a bunch of Orange County transplantees. It sickens me.
You would be appalled by how many "Yes on 8" signs I see around here. (For those who don't know, Yes on Proposition 8 in California means that you want to add an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage.) Churches around here are gigantic, and the number of attendees corresponds.
This country was founded as a secular country. A quick look through the Constitution yields no mention of god other than "in the Year of our Lord." The neoconservative, socially very conservative Republicans do not understand this. They are attempting, through legislation, to force their religion upon us. They are attempting to force their morality on us. They are doing exactly that which caused the first pilgrims to make their way here.
The social conservatives will probably continue to dominate the GOP, but there will be a defection of the social liberals/fiscal conservatives to the Libertarian party, a new version of the Democratic-Republican party, or even the Democratic party. The Libertarians are a bit too hardcore for anyone who's been a member of the GOP for a while; they've gotten used to spreading "freedom" and big military spending.
John McCain is a poor choice for president because he doesn't believe in the Constitution, plain and simple. The same goes for Barrack Obama. This country needs no more deviations from the plan.