Signs of the GOP times

A slanted piece designed to make us all think that knuckle-dragging reactionaries run the GOP. A strawman not even set up that well by Mr. Novak. So Repubs don't automatically make elected officials delegates, and Mr. Grassley isn't one - big deal !!!!

"If you're only in it for yourself then abortion doesn't matter. If you plan to leave a long term legacy, it does. If your 1.7 children are taught to abort the unplanned and limit their reproduction then they will have no effective vote against the offspring of my 9 who have been taught to revile the murder of the unborn and to treat all children as a blessing. I'm likely to have 30 to 40 grandchildren. You're likely to have 3 - if they live to be born."

Yes -- "in the long run, we shall all be dead." It's not just Keynes's homosexual economics that ignores long term legacies.

"the 'real' members of the homeschool mafia drive 15 passenger vans with little Jesus fishes on the back. We also practice death-by-multiplication-tables and other subversive forms of torture such as impromptu readings of Melville and Tolstoy. Clearly, we are the greatest threat to mom, apple pie, and the American way since Pol Pot."

The Left is pissed as hell that there's a large group of people they can't get at in order to re-educate. And they realize it's far more difficult to control families than isolated individuals, hence the attacks on both the traditional family and homeschooling. It's not so much that we're a threat to the American way, as it is that we're a obstruction in the road to the glorious Leftist utopia that will result when we finally just get over it and realize that they know better.

While the GOP moved away from traditional conservatism policy-wise, it continued to pay lip service to it in order to gain and maintain conservative support both financially and in the ballot box. Social conservatives (and I count myself here) were naive to hitch their wagon to a GOP which had little attention in pursuing their agenda, but was able and willing to use us as voting booth fodder.

What you're seeing among many conservatives that's causing tension is the gradual realization of this, along with the resistance of some to this notion. People are waking up, but they're not all waking up simultaneously, hence the divisions.

Of course some of the paleocons have been saying this for years, but you seldom hear them on Fox, and to my knowledge not one of the national talk radio cons is a paleo.