...g decades, it will need to prevent the Hispanic voting bloc from going the route of the Black voting bloc (i.e., nearly 100 percent Democratic in any given election). Romney likewise adopted the party policies of opposing gay marriage and abortion (although he differed from the official party platform in that he argued for exceptions for abortion in the case of rape, incest, or when the mother’s life is threatened). While both sides of the aborti...
Photo from Wikimedia Commons This summer a slew of protests and counter-protests erupted across the United States over Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy’s comments concerning gay marriage. LGBT activists organized a “Kiss-In,” where homosexual couples displayed signs of affection in front of their local Chick-fil-A restaurant. In response, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee organized a “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day,” intended to counter the a...
...not always a linear path. There can be countervailing forces and imperatives. Some of these struggles take a long time but yes, I think in the long run I think it can work. ACE: President Obama recently showed support for gay marriage. Do you this issue should be left to the federal government, or should it be left to the states? How should action be taken? SN: We view the right to marry and to choose the person you marry as a human right and not...
...were nearly boiling with excitement for the November election. However, while it publicly seemed that Democrats were down in the dumps, the induced enthusiasm from such developments as Obama’s announcement of support for gay marriage and strict new voter ID laws (most notably in Pennsylvania, a swing state) that will likely affect traditionally Democratic voters (namely the poor) was in fact only dormant. The Democrats were waiting and watching,...
...y correct. The bad thing about these insights is that, like most conventional wisdom, they’re vague, blithe, and totally reactive. While Democrats need to talk better (or, according to some, straighter) on everything from gay marriage to tax cuts, all of the major recrimination theories— from endemic laundry listlessness to letting the Bushies set the frame of the debate to “moral values” to not fighting back against Swift Boat Vets—ultimately st...
...on more austerity; his cabinet is behaving amateurishly; his own popularity is disastrous; his government coalition already seems ready to collapse etc. Even the popular war in Mali seems to be dragging on and his law on gay marriage, which has broad support from his coalition, is being obstructed by the joint efforts of conservative politicians and mass street protests. His popularity, 10 months into his mandate, is the worst of any President s...
...nservatives, libertarians, fiscal conservatives, and paleoconservatives all stress different values. For example, Rick Santorum’s socially conservative idea that government has a moral Christian duty to oppose abortion or gay marriage directly contradicts Ron Paul’s libertarian conservative position that government has absolutely no right to decide on such matters. Understanding the Republican Party’s shift from the traditional conservatism (or p...
...uld much rather vote for a ticket with a pro-life candidate at the top of the ticket and a mildly pro-choice candidate at the bottom of the ticket than not vote at all, which would hand the election to the pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-tax president and vice president in office now. After the poll, the media brought Rice up here and there, but she didn’t get nearly as much press as Rubio or Portman, to name a few. However, after the Drudge Re...
...“George Bush freed more slaves than any other U.S. president,” but that during the second term of the Bush administration, anti-slavery became less of a priority as the religious right began to focus on other issues, like gay marriage. So far, President Obama’s attention to slavery has been lackluster. In 2008, Rick Warren pressured Obama to put an end to modern slavery, and Obama agreed it was a “top priority.” To date, Obama has made several pr...
...RINO, especially given his elite background, having attended Harvard and co-founded Bain Capital. Santorum, on the other hand, appeals to the evangelical base with his strict social conservative positions on abortion and gay marriage. To most democrats he comes off as completely insane, taking hard stances against contraception and pornography. Although we might actually be comfortable with Romney sitting in the Oval Office, Democrats would much...
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