The church broke the GOP

[lindysalsagal]

It's very simple: The blind insistence of medieval religious fanatics to drive the GOP has killed it. And the GOP played right along, because they have no better ideas.


The GOP only really cares about one thing: money. And in their moral bankruptcy, they have allowed a false pseudo morality to impersonate ideological validity.

And americans aren't buying.

The GOP has sold it's soul to a fabricated past, and the women of america simply won't allow them to take us all back to the 9th century.

The church broke the GOP. And the GOP let them.

[malaise]

1. Well even that racist jackass Goldwater warned them about

the consequences of 'sleeping with the Xtian right wingers'.

[Freddie]

2. The GOP has been using Fundies

If it weren't for Fundies voting against their own interests because "Democrats kill babies", there would be no GOP. St. Ronnie, a man who rarely set foot in a church, is the person responsible for this unholy alliance which continues to this day.

The REAL Republican Party--Mittens and the Very Rich--could give a flying f*ck about abortion and gay marriage.

Is the exposure of the extreme anti-woman attitudes of the Fundie wing of the party finally backfiring? I think so. There's a *huge* difference in saying you're "pro-life" vs. forcing women to bear the spawn of rape and being opposed to contraception. Look at polls by gender and our side is finally getting this point across.

[lindysalsagal]

5. Well said. n/t.

[RagAss]

3. Actually, the GOP broke the church...

the 1% used the fundy sheep for votes in 2000 and 2004 and when America woke up in 2008 and saw through the bullshit, the GOP still tried to rally these pitiful lost souls using a scorched earth approach that put women in their crosshairs....when this fails, I assume we will watch a new GOP rise from the ashes with another fucked up plan.

[lindysalsagal]

6. The GOP forgets that fundies want their social security and medicaid.

I'll bet that the monthly check trumps all the b.s. xtian ideology, when push comes to shove.

[RagAss]

10. Yup...and they are too stupid to see that the people they support....

are fixing to steal it !!!

[MrScorpio]

4. They should have reconciled that both the Bible and the Const. aren't the singular Laws of the Land

It's either one or the other and yet, they chose the Bible. Why else are they so afraid of non-existent "Sharia Law?"

It's not the Constitution that they're afraid that it would supplant, it's the Bible as their supreme giver of laws that they're afraid that they'd have to give up.

The next time you come across a winger spouting off about "Sharia Law", please point that out to them.

[quaker bill]

7. Other than outlawing beer and bikinis, what do they object to?

With the exception of these two provisions, Sharia law and the Republican platform are pretty similar.

[MrScorpio]

8. All fundamentalists travel the same road

Even though they fail to see it that way

[quaker bill]

9. One quibble

You are generally correct that the fundys have driven the GOP out of the mainstream.

My quibble is with the statement "and the GOP let them".

Just like with the dems, the GOP is simply the people who show up at the meetings. The more fundys that show up at the meetings, the more fundy the GOP becomes. The GOP itself has no ability to "let" anything happen.

As the GOP has lost relevance in the world of ideas, and has consistently failed deliver on anything to include its own promises, anyone near the center of political dialog has left the GOP or been forced out. What remains are RW deadenders. This increasingly small group believes in their theories despite abysmal failure on every occasion that they have come close to implementation. Their answer is that these notions have not been tried hard enough or pure enough to work. They also think that those who disagree, are corrupt, stupid, unAmerican, immoral, lazy or some combination of all the above.

This is what the grieving process looks like when an idea dies.

[meow2u3]

11. The GOTP is using the fundies to go after their Social Security checks

In other words, they're just like the fundie preachers who con their followers into donating money to their "ministry" (read: luxurious lifestyle).