renie408 (7,483 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
Dear GOP, you wanted them...well, now you have them. How's that workin' out for ya??
The GOP has courted every nut job single issue voter in America for the past 30 years. Well, now they have them all under their 'big tent' and they are starting to eat each other.
Isn't that lovely?
Okay, let me see...wimmins' rights (especially "reproductive" rights)...no, not us. Gay rights...nope not us either (marriage and, evidently, hospital visits). The "poor", which, according to your definition includes everyone who thinks they're entitled to something someone else has...we missed the boat on those people too. Blacks, whose rights evidently consist of handouts while the live on liberal inner city plantations, not us again. Not that we don't have minorities, we just don't call them names (can you say Uncle Tom & house Negro...I knew you could) and expect them to worship us for handouts. But then, we believe everyone is quite capable of thinking for themselves and running their own lives. Illegal aliens (oops undocumented workers & drug dealers) no we don't court them with offers of special favors either. Well, we'd like them to go home and come in the legal way so that it's not a slap in the face to those who did it the right way...no, not us either.
About the only divide we have is between RINO elites and normal (conservative) Americans...check the surveys, DUmmies and see how many believe in our values and how many believe in yours. Granted we do have different religions and those with no religions. Of course, conservative Atheists don't get all bent out of shape when someone says Merry Christmas or when confronted with a Nativity at Christmas. But they're more tolerant and have a better understanding of the 1st Amendment. We have gun owners & non gun owners but one group is not trying to take away the rights of another. We have people from all socioeconomic levels but we don't covet what others have and we respect everyone equally. What the hell do I care how much someone else has? It's none of my business, I've got enough going on in my own life. But then, we value freedom more than money so there's that. So I guess I don't know who I'm supposed to consider a "nut job single issue voter". Still, I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard someone on the left say they're the "big tent" party. By now I'd have as much money as those greedy, rich conservatives.
Cindie