That Prop 8 passed is nothing more than an indication that the country still has an awful long way to go, as far as social progress goes.
Republicans lost this election because they had no ideas. They collectively put their heads in the sand about how bad off an awful lot of America is, and they paid the price for it. Their solution was "Everything is fine under Bush" (it wasn't) and "Everything should be done the same way" (It shouldn't.)
People aren't stupid. They're not. You can't say you're the party of fiscal responsibility, when, under your last president, you've had unprecedented amounts of debt, and the only reason why job creation is up is because you started to count jobs no one else did. This especially rings false when the last president to actually have a surplus was a democrat. Either shape up or STOP LYING TO US.
When your big plan for how to clean up the economy is "Cut pork" and "Freeze all spending" people will KNOW you are full of shit. Republicans have lost a LOT of credibility by how much money has been spent in the past administration. The three trillion dollar war, however you may feel about it, does nothing but exacerbate a very real financial problem at home.
How do republicans come back? Simple. They wait for people to be pissed off with Democrats. Obama, or whoever comes after him, will need to fuck something up. A huge amount of our presidents are elected simply because people are pissed at the current regime.
How exactly do they need to retool? Maybe getting a shred of their supposed financial responsibility back. Maybe by getting a shred of their small government ideals back. Maybe by not fucking meddling in everyone's lives so goddamn much making asinine laws opposing stem cell research or homosexual rights, or online mother fucking gambling god DAMN it. This is the party that swears up and down that they're not here to tell people what to do. BUT THEY DO.
As of now, the Republican party has NO BUSINESS whatsoever calling themselves conservatives. What the fuck are they actually conserving?
Are they conserving money? No. A three-trillion-dollar war and a president who didn't realize he had the veto until someone wanted to pass scientific research says otherwise.
Are they conserving the environment? DRILL BABY DRILL.
Are they conserving the rights of the people? On a personal level, I'm mad as hell at the prohibition of Online Gaming. They're deliberately stomping on the rights of homosexuals, although they're not entirely to blame for this. (Prop 8 passed in California, of all places. God damn.) There's a whole can of worms with the Patriot Act and torture and whatnot I don't even want to get into because 1)I'm not too educated on all of it and 2)I'm not sure how far we need to go to protect ourselves. See #1
So what, prey tel, are the Republicans Conserving? Because I honestly have no idea at this point.
I'm not defending Democrats. There are a lot of loonies in the party, and there are some serious issues I wish they'd address more realistically, like the need for Nuclear Power, but at this point, our choice is between the PROgressive party, and the REgressive party. There IS no conservative party in the United States of America. I'm an ulcer-ridden, pepto-chugging, mad-as-hell democrat or libertarian until SOMEONE in the Republican party gets an idea as to what they're doing again.
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