re: #80 Political Atheist

Amazing how the social networks have amplified the bullies and assholes. TCOT is a sewer. This budget/military conservative wants the brand back from the abusers.

The party got sold. The budget/military conservatives a long time ago made themselves comfortable with the social conservatives, and have been voting with them steadily. I don’t quite know how it happened that way— it didn’t even start with Reagan, though he solidified it— but it’s been the deal for a long time. To vote Republican has meant voting for social conservativism for quite awhile.

Those Republicans who are not social conservatives all have a breaking point. Mine came very long ago, as I began to fully comprehend just how much the GOP really was going to fight gay rights tooth and nail.