Hahaha. Opposition to gay marriage=homophobia! That’s a riot!

I did point out that a majority of blacks oppose gay marriage in polls that I saw, which was in contradiction to what the Crystal lady asserted. I don’t equate opposition to gay marriage to homophobia and hatred for gay people…that’s a liberal construct.

Enjoy your years in the wilderness. And keep up the brilliant suggestions.

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Kemp’s outreach here mirrors the conflict within the Democratic Party over the DLC plan (focus resources on Democratic strongholds) versus Howard Dean’s 50-state plan (don’t ceed huge portions of the country/blocks of voters simply because they’ve voted Republican the last few cycles).

To do that, they accepted that certain issues that were important for those northeast/west coast urban voters – such as gun control – were going to be taken off the front burner. They pretty much announced that someone being anti-gun control wasn’t going to keep the DNC from supporting them in their elections, and wasn’t going to invite primary challenges.

And the Dems did that without any illusions that the hardest core pro-gun voters were ever going to vote Democratic. But for folks for whom the 2nd Amendment is a secondary issue it was a sign that the Democrats weren’t as extreme anymore as they’d been led to believe.

And yet, that’s what I keep hearing from the GOP base. They are perfectly content to let the GOP be the party of older white people. They have no interest whatsoever in working to appeal to Hispanics (who are the fastest-growing voting bloc in America). They have no interest whatsoever in working to appeal to young people. And no one has taken up Jack Kemp’s cause of outreach to African-Americans. Rather, they wrote a party platform that reflects their views, and they’re presenting it to the rest of America on a “Take it or leave it” basis.

This insularity is going to doom the GOP–if it’s not changed. No one seems to notice that married white Protestants, the GOP’s bread and butter, are now down to only 51% of the electorate–and that percentage keeps dropping.

In the general election, Giuliani would have suffered similarly to McCain – I can’t remember anywhere where Giuliani seemed ready to draw a distinction between how he’d govern, and how Bush had governed over the last 8 years. That was an anchor for any Republican.

First of all, he was honest with them about having a different view on abortion. He stuck to his guns and didn’t try to pander or flip-flop, the way Romney had done. They respected that.

Then, he recited some reasons why they should support him: His strong stance against crime and urban decay; his staunch support for Israel; his strong stand against Islamic terrorism (he reminded them that he was willing to call it “Islamic” in public).

There are a number of reasons why Giuliani didn’t win the nomination. But lack of support from Christian evangelicals wasn’t one of them. After all, McCain managed to win the nomination without their support.