"Baptized as a baby into their religion, you can’t change that – but somehow being gay is a choice"
Yet, there are those people who are neurotically morally deficient, clinging to the notion that everyone who is poor or sick deserves what they have because somehow they didn’t try hard enough. The craziest thing is that many of these people call themselves “Christians,” and justify their position by claiming that “God helps those who help themselves” – a quote not in the Bible.
I agree with true conservatives on issues that include limited government, the death penalty (with due process) and gun rights, within reason. I have no issue with war, when justified, and I believe that those people who succeed should be held up as examples to others. I believe in small business, fair immigration policy and responsible capitalism.
Yet, those people in the GOP have been incredibly silent and allowed rabid people such as Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rick Santorum and other loonies to drive the bus and dictate policy.
These are people who call for making government inconsequential in our lives, unless you happen to make lifestyle choices they don’t agree with. They are all for letting people rear and educate their kids in religious-nutcase environments, but God forbid you want to smoke a joint in the privacy of your own home.
They believe that if you are baptized as a baby into their religion, you can’t change that – but somehow being gay is a choice. They believe that someone born over 2,000 years ago was the Son of God, but someone born 50 years ago in a U.S. state isn’t an American.
They think it is perfectly acceptable to spend trillions of dollars on failed foreign policy and prop up dictators or people such as Osama bin Laden who eventually turn on us, but it is a travesty to use tax dollars to take care of our own people or rebuild our infrastructure.
They oppose abortion, yet simultaneously oppose birth control or sex education that would prevent that pregnancy from happening in the first place. They call themselves “pro-life,” but clamor for the death of prisoners or even people who can’t afford health care. Believing that you are not your brother’s keeper is the greatest hypocrisy of those who wrap themselves in flags and wave crosses.
“Forget you, I got mine” is not true conservatism. That doesn’t represent working-class or middle-America values, and if the GOP wants to get back to possibly gaining my vote, they need to realize that.
I know there are good, decent people who call themselves Republicans yet they are allowing the nutcases to speak for them. I don’t know if it has become a majority or just a rabid and shrill minority that has come to dictate policy, but the reasonable people need to take the wheel back before it is too late. My fear is that it is too late.
Shayne Felberg
Augusta
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