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Originally Posted by Eeeee22895
First of all, there is no "far right". This is just a term invented by liberals to disparage ALL religious conservatives. And by the way, 60 percent of Americans according to Battleground poll describe themselves as "conservative or somewhat conservative". 76.5% of Americans describe themselves as "Christian." So the idea that just a tiny loud minority of Christian conservative crazies are hijacking the GOP and causing them to lose elections is ludicrous, bigoted, and designed to create a false impression. The vast majority of us ARE Christian conservatives.
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If 76.5% of Americans are Christian and 60% are conservative or somewhat conservative, .765 * .6 = .459, that is, with no further information we would predict a 45.9% overlap. How'd you guys do in the last election? Oh yeah, 46%.
Sounds like you got it all figured out. Maybe you should work for the RNC!
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That kind of thinking got us John McCain. He followed that advice to a tee. He worked very hard to get along with Democrats, scorned traditional conservative values, hugged the liberals, wooed the press, and promptly caused us to get our asses beat.
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McCain only won the nomination because the right wing vote was split, and he ran a right-wing general election campaign. Before the primaries, a lot of folks wanted him drummed out of the party because apparently God-fearing red-blooded Americans must endorse torturing prisoners in order to be authentic.
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We allow George Allen to get hammered by the Washington Post for uttering some nebulous esoteric nonsense word, we allow him to be somehow miraculously cast as a racist for that, and we allow him to get beat without having raised a huge uproar.
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If you are a politician and you use a racial slur against someone who is pointing a videocamera at you, you ought to be beaten on the basis of pure stupidity, never mind racism.