Fall Of The Religious Right?
Has the GOP turn their back on the religuos right? Can the GOP win without them?
TH-I don’t see glee oozing from between every comma in David Kirkpatrick’s New York Times magazine article this past weekend on the “evangelical crackup.” He’s a good reporter, whose coverage of conservatives I regard as generally well balanced. On the other hand, it isn’t hard to visualize street dancing and fireworks displays outside Clinton headquarters. Kirkpatrick’s focus is on the glug-glug sound as evangelical enthusiasm for conservatives and Republicans drains from the tub.
No one can predict, for certain, the speed or volume of the drainage. It suffices momentarily to note the potential effects of this once-unlooked-for phenomenon. Didn’t Republicans used to own the religious right? They sure did.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:38 am
I found this passage interesting:
For the harder task of cultural transformation and the spreading of Truth many evangelicals have shown scant appetite. They’d rather sign petitions and pass out campaign literature.
I’ve personally found this to be true. I’ve done “Hands on Atlanta” for several years now and the only churches that show up to help are mainstream denominations and black evangelicals. The white evangelicals don’t come.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:54 am
The GOP is still wholly owned and paid for by the religious right.
It’s the fiscal conservatives that no longer have a place in the GOP.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:45 am
Dingleberry
And the religious right may (or may not be) big #1 with the Creator, but in politics they are too big and bulky. They ignore way too many important issues. And this article from Ludwig Von Misses “inspired” me to become a blogger. Even though I’ve linked to this one before: http://www.mises.org/story/2232
October 31st, 2007 at 10:01 am
I agree that the fiscal conservatives have lost out.
I also agree the Christians, like atheists and secular humanists all want the federal government to push their agenda instead of letting each society do it.
Until we return to our founding principle of a “republic,” we will continue our decline due to centralized power at the federal level and redistribution of wealth in a manner that will continue the loss of value of the dollar, the wage gap widening, the manufacturing jobs leaving and tax revenues not keeping up with spending.