re: #203 cronus

4 out 10 McCain voters to be exact. Nobody is more concerned than I am about where some SoCons have tried to take the party and I will not pledge unconditional support for any Repub until I know their views on energy policy, fiscal discipline and science. But that said, winning a presidential race without SoCons is a pipe dream.

Really, social moderates aren’t the ones, and haven’t been the ones who yell RINO at every person who isn’t in lockstep with them on a few pet issues.

The So/RelCons are the ones whose behavior is exclusionary. They aren’t shy about flat out demanding that their entire domestic platform be enshrined as THE domestic platform of the GOP, and any slight verbal deviation from an extremely hard-line stance on abortion or gay marriage/civil unions elicits screams of fury from them.

One recent example—Michael Steele’s comments about abortion. He was given up for adoption as an infant, and he said that he was glad his mother hadn’t chosen to have an abortion. Steele is pro-life and has been pro-life his entire political career, and the substance of his answer didn’t indicate he’d suddenly changed, but because the phrasing was odd, … “off with his head!”

dumb, divisive, and unpleasant