re: #151 Lidane

The sad thing is, this isn’t even conservatism. It’s religious fanaticism and misogyny being given the cover of conservatism because the GOP are too chickenshit to tell the American Taliban types to fuck off and get out of the party.

That’s because “American Conservatism” is more or less dead.

As a mainstream cause Conservatism for Conservatism’s sake in America, wouldn’t have a chance of winning a presidential election.

However when the still twitching corpse of American Conservatism is animated by the plague of Theological Rule… it can make that dead body limp about and win a few more elections.

Only when the two work in tandem do they have a choice.

An actual “conservative” Candidate without the support of the Socons has no chance in a state wide race (see John McCain 2008), and in turn an actual Socon candidate without any conservative layer of plausible deniability (see Sarah Palin 2012 god willing) has no chance in a national election.

The problem is that because the Socons are energized and the real conservatives take poorly to change, the later doesn’t realize/doesn’t want to admit/ doesn’t want to take action over the issue the former has stolen their party right out from under them.