Comments for Big Tent Revue http://bigtentrevue.org Tue, 15 May 2012 03:47:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Same-Sex Marriage: A Response by Same-Sex Marriage: A Response « The Clockwork Pastor http://bigtentrevue.org/2011/06/28/same-sex-marriage-a-response/#comment-2094 Same-Sex Marriage: A Response « The Clockwork Pastor Tue, 15 May 2012 03:47:59 +0000 http://bigtentrevue.org/?p=5174#comment-2094 [...] originally posted this on my political blog, Big Tent Revue in [...] [...] originally posted this on my political blog, Big Tent Revue in [...]

]]> Comment on The Long, Slow March by superdestroyer http://bigtentrevue.org/2012/05/11/the-long-slow-march/#comment-2093 superdestroyer Sat, 12 May 2012 20:45:29 +0000 http://bigtentrevue.org/?p=5480#comment-2093 Bruce, So your proposal is to alienate all of the social conservatives/fiscal conservatives in the hopes of picking up the fiscal conservatives/social libertarians. And what groups currently inside the Democratic Party fit the definition that you want to appeal to. My guess is that is no such thing as a homosexual fiscal conservatives and that homosexuals are very uniform in their support for higher taxes, more government, more entitlements, and more social engineering. The deal for the Republicans should be to package homosexual marriage at the federal level with vouchers for schools and allowing people to opt out of social security. Bruce,

So your proposal is to alienate all of the social conservatives/fiscal conservatives in the hopes of picking up the fiscal conservatives/social libertarians. And what groups currently inside the Democratic Party fit the definition that you want to appeal to.

My guess is that is no such thing as a homosexual fiscal conservatives and that homosexuals are very uniform in their support for higher taxes, more government, more entitlements, and more social engineering.

The deal for the Republicans should be to package homosexual marriage at the federal level with vouchers for schools and allowing people to opt out of social security.

]]> Comment on The Long, Slow March by Bruce R. Gilson http://bigtentrevue.org/2012/05/11/the-long-slow-march/#comment-2092 Bruce R. Gilson Sat, 12 May 2012 12:26:16 +0000 http://bigtentrevue.org/?p=5480#comment-2092 The Republicans are running an openly gay candidate for Congress in Massachusetts, as you have <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/27/a-strong-republican-for-congress-who-just-happens-to-be-gay.html" rel="nofollow">noted earlier.</a> Right now, most serious Republican candidates (i. e. not Fred Karger, who nobody's heard of) have to pander to religious conservatives. But there is no connection between economic conservatism and social conservatism. I agree that sooner or later this will change, but the change will only happen when the "social conservatives" become few enough in number that the Republicans are not afraid to alienate them. The Republicans are running an openly gay candidate for Congress in Massachusetts, as you have noted earlier. Right now, most serious Republican candidates (i. e. not Fred Karger, who nobody’s heard of) have to pander to religious conservatives. But there is no connection between economic conservatism and social conservatism. I agree that sooner or later this will change, but the change will only happen when the “social conservatives” become few enough in number that the Republicans are not afraid to alienate them.

]]> Comment on The Long, Slow March by superdestroyer http://bigtentrevue.org/2012/05/11/the-long-slow-march/#comment-2091 superdestroyer Sat, 12 May 2012 11:14:54 +0000 http://bigtentrevue.org/?p=5480#comment-2091 What is the upside of the Republicans support the homosexual agenda? It alienates all of the social conservatives. The affluent, organized homosexuals will still support the Democratic Party. Will still donate huge amounts of money to the Democrats. Will still support bigger government, higher taxes, more social engineering, and more indoctrination. Why should conservatives support a group that detest everything that is conservative? What is the upside of the Republicans support the homosexual agenda? It alienates all of the social conservatives. The affluent, organized homosexuals will still support the Democratic Party. Will still donate huge amounts of money to the Democrats. Will still support bigger government, higher taxes, more social engineering, and more indoctrination.

Why should conservatives support a group that detest everything that is conservative?

]]> Comment on On Dick Lugar by Rich http://bigtentrevue.org/2012/05/09/on-dick-lugar/#comment-2089 Rich Wed, 09 May 2012 15:52:43 +0000 http://bigtentrevue.org/?p=5477#comment-2089 I think it's a shame the GOP is moving more in the direction espoused by Van Dyke. I can't support that kind of party. I think it’s a shame the GOP is moving more in the direction espoused by Van Dyke. I can’t support that kind of party.

]]> Comment on Notes from a Chastened NeoMugwump by DonC http://bigtentrevue.org/2012/05/02/notes-from-a-chastened-neomugwump/#comment-2088 DonC Fri, 04 May 2012 04:36:37 +0000 http://bigtentrevue.org/?p=5471#comment-2088 I have started telling everyone I know who has any interest in politics that it won't make a bit of difference who gets elected president. If it is Obama - stay the course. If it's Romney - the Senate Dems will do everything in their power to do to him what the Repubs did to Obama. So we sit ... nothing will get done. I'm turning into an ol' fuddyduddy, believing that the U.S. is going to heck in a handbasket. Canada's looking better all of the time. Someone ... name one statesman ... or woman ... who worth a hill of buffalo turds. A very few left, and they are all going away. Someone tell me what in the world is going to make a whit of difference????? I have started telling everyone I know who has any interest in politics that it won’t make a bit of difference who gets elected president. If it is Obama – stay the course. If it’s Romney – the Senate Dems will do everything in their power to do to him what the Repubs did to Obama. So we sit … nothing will get done. I’m turning into an ol’ fuddyduddy, believing that the U.S. is going to heck in a handbasket. Canada’s looking better all of the time.

Someone … name one statesman … or woman … who worth a hill of buffalo turds. A very few left, and they are all going away. Someone tell me what in the world is going to make a whit of difference?????

]]> Comment on Notes from a Chastened NeoMugwump by Solomon Kleinsmith http://bigtentrevue.org/2012/05/02/notes-from-a-chastened-neomugwump/#comment-2087 Solomon Kleinsmith Thu, 03 May 2012 06:10:41 +0000 http://bigtentrevue.org/?p=5471#comment-2087 AE has failed mainly because of an absolutely terrible field plan... or almost a complete lack of one. If they had hired full time, front line field organizers all over the country instead of started paying back wealthy donors with small dollar donations (please read that last part dripping with disappointment), they'd have a ton more clicks on their site. There is a long list of problems they have gone out of their way to bring on themselves. AE has failed mainly because of an absolutely terrible field plan… or almost a complete lack of one. If they had hired full time, front line field organizers all over the country instead of started paying back wealthy donors with small dollar donations (please read that last part dripping with disappointment), they’d have a ton more clicks on their site. There is a long list of problems they have gone out of their way to bring on themselves.

]]> Comment on Bring Back Jack! by FT http://bigtentrevue.org/2012/03/23/bring-back-jack/#comment-2085 FT Tue, 01 May 2012 04:33:08 +0000 http://bigtentrevue.org/?p=5435#comment-2085 A person like Jack Kemp is the salvation of the GOP as we know it. A person like Jack Kemp is the salvation of the GOP as we know it.

]]> Comment on The Persistence of Racism by superdestroyer http://bigtentrevue.org/2012/04/10/the-persistence-of-racism/#comment-2064 superdestroyer Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:57:41 +0000 http://bigtentrevue.org/?p=5468#comment-2064 The real lesson for whites is to shut up about race and learn to use the language of obscuring. Learn to say that you are doing something for your children instead of saying that you would never seen your children to a school with a large number of blacks. Whites have to be even more careful in picking their neighborhood, their children's school, their career, and the university they attend since slip ups are so much easier and the downside of failure is even greater. The real lesson for whites is to shut up about race and learn to use the language of obscuring. Learn to say that you are doing something for your children instead of saying that you would never seen your children to a school with a large number of blacks.

Whites have to be even more careful in picking their neighborhood, their children’s school, their career, and the university they attend since slip ups are so much easier and the downside of failure is even greater.

]]> Comment on Just Press Play by Bruce R. Gilson http://bigtentrevue.org/2012/03/29/just-press-play/#comment-2058 Bruce R. Gilson Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:09:12 +0000 http://bigtentrevue.org/?p=5449#comment-2058 I just recently saw a quote that seems relevant: “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” You know who said this? <b><i>Jesse Jackson.</i></b> I just recently saw a quote that seems relevant: “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” You know who said this? Jesse Jackson.

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