You were in the SPAM filter.

I dug you out.

In the end, too many people spin out of self-control to keep their paying job when their paying job is in jeopardy. Parker’s a perfect example.

“Loose”? So who’s this illiterate, SG retard?

But why, I wonder, do you, SG, waste your time nitpicking comments for typos and imprecise statements only to respond with cliches and platitutes? If you weren’t the blatantly imbecilic embecile that you are, you could at least entertain us with something lively or informative or insightful. Instead, we get a st(R)ing of mo(R)onic meande(R)ings: Unadulte(R)ated Folde(R)ol.

Cheers

Frum left today.

Brooks may be right; ‘traditionalists’ may win over ‘reformers’ in the GOP party, if flag-ship mags are any indicator.

Of course, this doesn’t mean it will make the party any better or more powerful.

Jay McDonough looks at the numbers and explains the problem with more quantification:

It strikes me there are a couple issues here. The first is Ms. Parker’s contention the Republican Party is erring by placing all it’s eggs in the Evangelical basket. Demographics highlight the problem for Republicans: In a 2007 study, 26% of voters identified themselves as Evangelical Protestants and about two thirds of evangelicals identify themselves as Republicans.

OK. some math: If two thirds of Evangelicals, totaling 17% of all voters, identify themselves as Republicans and 27% of all voters identify themselves as Republicans, that means Evangelicals represent 63% of the Republican Party. That’s a big chunk of the Republican Party and, to Sullivan’s point, a blindly loyal component of the Party. That’s pretty hard to ignore.

(And, by the way, that group of “party intelligensia”, who’s conversations Ms. Parker eavesdrops now represents a very small faction of the GOP. Like it or not, those are the folks who are now the minor players in the Republican Party).

Though it’s hard not to agree with Ms. Parker. If the Republicans have any hopes of reemerging a broadly based, issues centric party and avoid becoming known as just the party of Evangelicals, they will have to figure out a way to not only keep that Evangelical constituency but grow their party with policy that’s compelling to more moderate voters.

But the other issue from Mr. Larison: For all the allegiance the Evangelical community has shown the Republican Party, they’ve not really gotten much in return. A couple Supreme Court Justices, but no Constitutional amendments on same sex marriage bans or overturning of Roe v. Wade. No prayer in school and public displays of Christian symbolism. Apart from some world class pandering, the Republicans haven’t provided much for this fairly loyal and sizeable constituency. Those Evangelicals may become impatient with the GOP at some point.

Those Republicans has managed to paint itself into quite a corner here.

This former communist also stated the greatest difference between us and the USSR was God. Probably the reason all the commie fellow travelers and their useful idiots are spending so much time and effort to eradicate God from the US of A.

Good description of your basic useful idiots type follows.

We stand by our assertion that FDR was “the most notorious violator of Constitutional federalism in the 20th Century.” He launched a myriad of socialist programs, the effluent of which plague us today. Roosevelt, by decree, redefined the role of the central government — and was class warfare’s greatest advocate. FDR proclaimed, “Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.” Of course, that was not an “American principle,” but a paraphrase of Karl Marx’s Communist maxim, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” (That’s a fine sentiment when mandated by the heart — not the state.) FDR set the stage for the entrapment of future generations by the welfare state and the incremental shift from individual freedom to dependence on the state. Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev said of Roosevelt’s “New Deal” paradigm shift, “We can’t expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.” Indeed, FDR, the benefactor of a great inheritance of wealth like so many Leftist protagonists, was nothing more than what V.I. Lenin called Western Leftists who took the side of the Socialists in political debates: “Useful idiots.”

Snerd

Had to correct part of your post snerd.