re: #155 Charles Johnson

So maybe they should stop making social issues their number one priority. The GOP’s laser-like focus on destroying women’s rights and gay rights is pretty darned obvious. It’s a party with no real ideas - they focus instead on magical thinking that “fixing” these social issues will fix everything else.

The smarter ones know this is bullshit, of course, but they’re right there helping out the true zealots, who have become a majority in the GOP.

Agree that the GOP should move away from social issues, but unfortunately that is not going to happen quickly. It used to be respectable in the GOP to hold social conservative views personally, but to leave that up to individuals to run their own lives. I could live with that, but the evangelicals want to tell everyone how to live their lives and won’t back down.