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Riehl World View —
... I'm not actually a strident social con, more of a social moderate. But this statement from lgf is, unfortunately, in a word, dumb. I might even agree with lgf to a degree, but the social con agenda wasn't even on the agenda this Fall. And it certainly wasn't pivotal in the race. Hell, even Obama shifted to the right on the issue to get elected. ...
P. J. O'Rourke: We Blew It
Little Green Footballs —
... Bravo. P. J. says it better, of course, but this is a very similar point to the ones I made in this post: Should the GOP Double Down on Social Conservatism? ...
More social conservative bashing
Southern Appeal —
From Little Green Footballs , about a week ago: If the GOP decides to go in the Bobby Jindal direction (fundamental Christianity, creationism, hard-line anti-abortionism, aggressively anti-gay rights), it will be committing political suicide. As much as anything else, this election was a referendum on the social conservative agenda, and the social conservatives did not win. I really don’t understand the logic here. Was this election at all about social issues? From what I saw, social issues were very rarely discussed — the primary issues were the economic crisis and the Iraq ...
