PoliCHARTZ - Thread of U.S. Politics & the Presidential Election

[Aiemond]

akuma587 said:

fkusumot said:

The economy is irrelevant compared with religious identity. What this campaign may be doing is stripping most secular Republicans and independents from the GOP coalition. We could be left with a purely sectarian-Christianist rump, which will control the GOP for a generation. And McCain will have distilled Rove's religious coalition in eight weeks more effectively than Bush in eight years!

What we may be seeing is all the dangerous trends I identified in "The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom and the Future Of The Right" being brought to faster and more potent fruition by the combination of an economic crisis, a black Democratic candidate and a far-right Christianist unknown like Palin. It is as if the McCain-Palin campaign is acting as a purgative of moderate or centrist Republicanism in this atmosphere. What this could portend is that the GOP could become reduced to a George Wallace rump - even more than it now is. And from that scorched piece of earth, it will be much harder to recover in the short or medium run. Source

God help us all if the Republican Party manages to come back into power stripped of everything but is sectarian Christian philosophies...that will be a horrifying sight.

I don't hate the Republican Party, I just hate the Religious Right. If Republicans would act more like Libertarians I would be much more open to what they had to say.

 

This is one of the major reasons I no longer lean in the republican direction.