The "culture war" is bullshit
Republicans often style themselves "culture warriors", defenders of morality and "family values" against immoral liberals who allegedly do nothing but commit adultery, divorce each other repeatedly, dress in drag, kill unborn children, support homosexuals, and try to take people's firearms away.
While I disagree with their sanctimonious blathering, I always assumed that however misguided, they were actually sincere in their beliefs. But Digby has pointed out something that makes him (and me) wonder whether most of them really believe any of that stuff. Apparently, Giuliani is leading all other Republican candidates:
While I disagree with their sanctimonious blathering, I always assumed that however misguided, they were actually sincere in their beliefs. But Digby has pointed out something that makes him (and me) wonder whether most of them really believe any of that stuff. Apparently, Giuliani is leading all other Republican candidates:
Giuliani holds a 2 to 1 advantage over McCain among Republicans, according to the poll, more than tripling his margin of a month ago.Now, Giuliani has done just about everything that these folks supposedly loathe (at least when liberals do it), including all the sins I listed in the opening sentence of this post. The same people who were livid when Bill Clinton got a blowjob from an intern are leaping into the arms of a cross-dressing, twice-divorced adulterer who lived with gay people. Remember: IOKIYAR (It's OK if you're a Republican). Digby concludes:
The principal reason was a shift among white evangelical Protestants, who now clearly favor Giuliani over McCain.
...if Rudy Giuliani becomes the GOP nominee it means the culture wars are as fake as William Shatner's hair. Once people realize that, perhaps we can stop talking about how so many people are allegedly against choice, gay rights and other progressive values in this country. Clearly, they don't care much about any of that, nor do they care about Lieberman's nonsense about setting a good example for the children. The Christian Right supporting Rudy Giuliani proves that the culture war is nothing but a GOP scam and we can stop obsessively worrying about offending these people with our godless, fancy-pants, big-city ways.
Good for Rudy Giuliani for(inadvertantly) pulling back the curtain on this hoax.
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If you know gay Republicans, you know what I am talking about. In their case, many people feel sorry for them thinking they are 'self-hating'. But that is completely wrong. They actually adore themselves, and love decadent gay sex. It is the 'other' they despise. The so-called fifth column liberal Elitist. Remember when Andrew Sullivan wrote so nastily about 'hairy-backed SF homos'?
I haven't seen Jesus Camp. I probably should. But it's hard for me to look so closely at the Christianist movement. I don't want to think about my fellow Americans thinking like that. But I suppose I ought to look it in the eye if I'm going to be opposing it.