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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato (429-347 BC)

Thursday, March 28, 2013

The Family Values Meltdown Continues

Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: The GOP's meltdown over marriage and the sanctity of life continues. Tuesday, former Republican Senator Larry Pressler announced his support for same-sex "marriage," calling it the "new conservative position." Tellingly, Pressler made his announcement on Al Gore's Current TV.

He could not be more wrong. There is nothing conservative about redefining marriage. And there is nothing conservative about turning to unelected judges to invalidate the will of the American people. That is called liberal judicial activism, and conservatives have rightly opposed it for decades.

In 2006 the voters of South Dakota approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. If Larry Pressler was entertaining the notion of a political comeback, I suspect he would not get half the votes he did last time after coming out of the closet to support redefining marriage. He is another out-of-touch politician who thinks he knows better than the people of his own state.

But Pressler joins other politicos like former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman and Nicolle Wallace in denouncing supporters of normal marriage as bigots. When Pressler was in the Senate, he was always someone conservatives had to worry about.

Not surprisingly, Pressler voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and publicly campaigned for him in 2012. Huntsman, of course, served in the Obama Administration while Obama was taking over the healthcare system, raising taxes and promoting abortion. Nicolle Wallace, who I debated on Fox News Sunday last week, famously aimed her vitriol during the 2008 campaign at Sarah Palin rather than Barack Obama.

My point is simply this: The Republicans who are now coming out and insisting that we should downplay values issues have never been full members of the team to begin with. They are part of the same establishment that bitterly fought Ronald Reagan.

Huntsman, Pressler and Wallace don't understand Middle America and do not appreciate the values of hard-working, men and women of faith. There are millions of blue collar folks -- Nixon's Silent Majority and former Reagan Democrats -- who vote for Republicans because of values issues not because of GOP promises to protect billionaires from tax hikes.

The more GOP elites signal their disdain for values voters, condemning their deeply held religious values as bigotry, the more they risk losing them. In the end, the very elites who claim they are trying to save the party will end up causing its crack-up.

An Opportunity
In the days leading up to the Supreme Court's hearings on marriage, Democrats tripped over each other trying to get to the nearest microphone to be the next to embrace same-sex marriage.

Some of them are up for reelection next year and come from states that have passed marriage protection amendments by wide margins. If the GOP will take a second to stop preemptively surrendering, they might discover some real opportunities are right in front of them. For example:
  • Senator Mark Begich (D-AK) now supports same-sex marriage. Alaska voters approved a constitutional amendment preserving normal marriage by a vote of 68%-to-32%.
  • Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) endorsed same-sex marriage this week. Virginia voters approved a marriage protection amendment by a vote of 57%-to-43%.
  • And yesterday Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) announced her support for men "marrying" other men. It has not even been one year since the voters of the Tar Heel state approved a constitutional amendment preserving traditional marriage by vote of 61%-to-39%.
Talk about having a Senate seat handed to you on a silver platter! Most politicians would give their right arm to win with 61%. I believe this seat could be easily won if the Republican candidate is bold enough to articulate a strong stand for traditional marriage. We could teach them how in 30 minutes, but I doubt anyone in the RNC apparatus is even thinking about it.

The fact that Begich, Warner and Hagan feel free to publicly oppose the vast majority of their constituents shows they have concluded that the GOP will be afraid to use it as a campaign issue.

The party elites may be backing down but, my friends, I am not! With your support, this political action committee will do everything we can to defeat politicians who oppose our values!
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Gary Bauer is is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families where his articles are also shared.

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Ron Bartels said...

Noah had to separate from the world for a while due to sin. So should we. Secession is in order for those states who want to remain free and serve the Lord. If other states decide to repent, then the nation can be restored.

3/29/2013  
Anonymous Reed Chambers II said...

I am going to encourage each Republican County Committee to amend its By Laws, to provide that each past or present --Republican President, Republican Vice President, Republican Presidential Cabinet Officer, each Republican Member of the US House of Representatives and also each Republican Member of the US Senate, upon the effective date of the By Law Amendment becoming effective, thereafter be considered as "Honorary Ex Officio Luminary Members" of the County Republican Party; the second proposed By Laws Amendment would be to authorize the GOP County Committee to expel any individual from the County Republican Party: (1) for registering as a member of any other political party; (2) for endorsing a Democrat candidate for election (think former US Secretary of State Colin Powell); (3) for abandoning conservative Republican principles and publicly endorsing or joining with Democrats to pass legislation that the overwhelming majority of Republican legislators are opposed to; (think Senator Larry Pressler) (4) For disgraceful conduct unbecoming a Republican Public Official; (think of a future GOP version of a Bill Clinton or some sort of a financial swindler extraordinaire. Then, from time to time expel some well-deserving Honorary Ex Officio Luminary Members of the County Republican Party for violating one or more of the "Big 4" political suicide activities, and then news release this "dishonorable discharge" from the GOP, both nationally and also in the home state of the errant disgraceful political Benedict Arnold, now officially an expelled Republican.

3/29/2013  

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