A Rift In The Making?
The conservatives in America have could teach a class on how to use factions for political gain. Whether you're talking about baiting bigots and racists, schmoozing with God-fearing Christians or pandering to Friedman-ordained Wall Street types, the American Conservative has been able to pull off spectacular, if temporary, alliances.
The Tea Party phenomenon is just the latest in a long line of attempts to re-brand and re-tool the conservative element within the GOP. But while this has been going on, there's been another interesting development: the potential fracturing between conservatives and libertarians, as evidenced by Ron Paul's one vote loss to Mitt Romney in the last Conservative Something Something Convention.
But more to the point, there's been recent comments by noted "voices" of conservatives dismissing the previous Conservative Something Something Convention as being too libertarian.
It seems strange that this is the stance being taken. The GOP probably don't want their racists out in front (right?). The Wall Street types will go with the money, potential or otherwise. Sooner or later, Christian Conservatives will realize that a ban on abortion and gay marriage isn't happening anytime soon (it didn't happen under Bush's Administration). Seriously, why split with a voting block that has been so politically useful over the years?
The Tea Party phenomenon is just the latest in a long line of attempts to re-brand and re-tool the conservative element within the GOP. But while this has been going on, there's been another interesting development: the potential fracturing between conservatives and libertarians, as evidenced by Ron Paul's one vote loss to Mitt Romney in the last Conservative Something Something Convention.
But more to the point, there's been recent comments by noted "voices" of conservatives dismissing the previous Conservative Something Something Convention as being too libertarian.
It seems strange that this is the stance being taken. The GOP probably don't want their racists out in front (right?). The Wall Street types will go with the money, potential or otherwise. Sooner or later, Christian Conservatives will realize that a ban on abortion and gay marriage isn't happening anytime soon (it didn't happen under Bush's Administration). Seriously, why split with a voting block that has been so politically useful over the years?
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