upvote for dean.

Howard reiterates something I've been saying for a while now - the moderate majority of the GOP is drowned out by louder, richer neo-conservative and right-wing extremist voices.

Social conservatism is turning into a platform pushing only state-sponsored hate - hate for sick, the poor, and the queer. The platform will continue to divide the GOP until the party is torn asunder. Moderates will continue to jump ship, re-register as Democrats or Libertarians, and eventually, the only base the GOP will have left are the under-educated, rurally-located peons that have been the backbone of all the worst, dirtiest, and most ethically-impaired political parties in history - your typical backwaters, gun-toting, cheap booze-swilling, hate-and-tobacco-spit-spewing hick, the type of person most easily swayed into voting against their best interests, the type who latch on to catchy expressions, no matter how patently false the statements may be, the type that can be manipulated and prodded into action and response far out of proportion to the given problem.

I also view Social conservatism as really just a backdoor to theocracy (let's see the anti-socialists bend their heads around that...). Every theocratic regime has always enforced a strict, socially conservative cultural and moral code. They have more in common with the "ter'rists" they purport to hate than they would like to publicly admit, and should rightfully be called out for it.

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