Sorry for the false alarm
It turns out the brand-new American Conservative Party [sic] web site* is determined to be a completely irrelevant blip in the ideological fracturing of the Republican Party. Bill Quick, the blogger organizing the effort, has issued a rather dictatorial edict declaring that social conservatives are not welcome unless they keep their mouths shut on the national level. You can see my farewell to them here.
* As Bill has explained here at TBR, he doesn't really want to form a new political party. He wants to set himself up as the Republican version of Kos, and he's just using the name to catch people looking for somewhere to escape the GOP carnage. I added the gratuitous [sic] because even Barry Goldwater joked about being among "the new liberals of the Republican Party" later in life. If you want to form something called "American Conservatism" and win elections with it, it better be the one defined by the Reagan landslides and not the Goldwater landslide or you'll never get very far.
Comments
Anyone who visits Quick's post now will note that he and his libertarian hangers-on are welcoming the departure of all who "throw down gauntlets and ultimatiums" - laughably ignoring the hypocrisy that their preconditions for debate are what prompted my withdrawal in the first place.
I'm rather embarrassed that I got involved with these ...folks... at all. *sigh*
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February 10, 2008 09:15 PM
Well... I agree with Fred Thompson's approach to this touchy issue. Social issues are best dealt with as state/local issues. There is more than enough division across the US to make agreement at the national level impossible.
Why the constant drive to have all levels of government be the same? Is this not redundant? Different levels have different purposes.
If Christians wish to "take back the nation", more power to them. As long as they don't ask the federal government to do it for them. I strongly agree with the concerns of social conservatives, but not at a national level.
It is the demand that the social leg of the stool be taller than the other two that has unbalanced the three-legged stool of Conservativism (Social, Fiscal, Defense).
Roe v Wade must be over-turned and state laws such as those on anti-sodomy should be allowed the states. These are "community values" types of issues. There are places where these laws would be impossible to enact and others where they would be impossible to avoid. This is good.
If we want to increase the impact of social issues, we (not the government) need to get out and convince people that our view is correct.
Using the government to enforce our views smacks of another form of government..
I agree that the Christians have a point. They need to make it, not legislate it.
Posted by: Rob | February 15, 2008 12:31 AM