AUH20
I admit it, I had to look that one up..
he religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives. . . We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn’t stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.”
- Senator Barry Goldwater, September 15, 1981, speech to the U.S. Senate.
problem is, the God-warriors don't believe that.. or they don't believe that it was a 'success', but more like a catastrophe that we've never allowed it..
and unfortunately, it's not just the God-warriors.. congressional, non-GW, GOP'ers fall all over themselves trying everything they can to go against Obama. You can't tell me McConnell or Cantor buy one word of Bachman's or Santorum's God stuff, but if they can hurt Obama.. or think they can, they go all 'borg' with whomever is leading the GOP primary polls.. It's that "Borg" like style that's killing the GOP.. and worse than that, it's killing liberalism.. because they are soooooooooooooooooo far right, that to try and even get close to meeting them half-way means a giant step over to the right..
maybe that's the goal tho... to destroy the party so they can build it back up in the image those few select shot-callers want to make it into..
my question to people like Mike is, I know you're not a God-warrior, (in fact in his case he's an avowed agnostic boarding on full-blown atheism...) so how do you cast your vote for either Santorum, who's so far right he's in mullah/sharia law territory.. or Romney who follows the leader to score points even if that leader and the points change weekly.. isn't your country better with Obama? even if you don't agree with 50% of what he does? You know he's not going to govern thru his religious-colored glasses, nor is he going to change direction when the wind blows..
I guess the answer to that depends on your status.. if you're white,hetero male, you're pretty safe.. but anything else and you're going to be in trouble if any of these GOP candidates win..
