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marble falls
(56,996 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,252 posts)it will be like walking the plank into the big deep ocean...never to surface or be of any importance...bye bye...
JEB
(4,748 posts)on a short pier.
Squinch
(50,911 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,908 posts)BYE!
pizzadave
(46 posts)Laughed so filpping loud at this.
Well done.
BlueManFan
(256 posts)think the Bible thumpers are going to walk to? Huckabee is such a piece of shit. God must thrilled to have Huck as a standard bearer for Christ!
RKP5637
(67,086 posts)Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Just Do It!!
nxylas
(6,440 posts)We can hope, anyway. If nothing else, it'll be interesting to see how the Freepers continue to peddle their "GOP lost because they weren't conservative enough" narrative once Huckabee crashes and burns, as he inevitably will.
sheshe2
(83,637 posts)SDjack
(1,448 posts)liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)it would lay bare the Xtian GOP from true conservatives. That can play one of two ways. Either the vast majority of voters go with the GOP (and their lies) of they are split between the extreme Tali-Christian beliefs and the rest of the GOP or they are unified under the GOP.
Either way, demographics predict a demise of the GOP brand, as currently constituted. It will die a slow, withering death...the one I wished for was it Reagan, Bush or?????
William769
(55,142 posts)corkhead
(6,119 posts)Initech
(100,033 posts)I'm tired of them - hopefully SCOTUS tears down DOMA and they become more and more irrelevant with each election.
The worst thing the Republican party ever did was give rise to the "Southern Strategy" and allow southern evangelicals to gain power and political office. It hasn't led to anything good and I'm glad their reign of terror is over.
get the red out
(13,460 posts)has almost destroyed this country IMO. I'm glad they are turning on each other, it had to happen eventually, the money behind the GOP won't fall in line behind their hateful "values" if they don't see anything to be gained. The American Taliban has been used, they are so stupid it's take years and years for them to start to see it.
Initech
(100,033 posts)And the bloated policies that this administration passed, and the religious bigotry that followed 9/11 caused it to burst. And the Tea Party is the direct result of 8 years of their horseshit. All the in fighting that's going on in the GOP right now is a direct result of the Southern Strategy getting too big for it's own good.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)if there is a benevolent God, he will make this happen. Like YESTERDAY.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)Don't let the door hit you in your fundie ass on the way out. In fact, I hope it does. And leaves a mark.
Bucky
(53,936 posts)RKP5637
(67,086 posts)titanicdave
(429 posts)Hey Mikey.........he doesn't like it.........bye bye Mikey
BlueManFan
(256 posts)but I wonder......If the political arm of the republican party might be more interested in governing if the jesus freaks in the religious wing left the party. Since Ralph Reed and Jerry Falwell co-opted republicans, they have had to "dance with the devil"-every pun intended and kow-tow to these social neanderthals. While I salivate at the prospect of a republican party that consumes itself in a holy war, I think the country would be better off if these pseudo-Christians would fuck off.
RKP5637
(67,086 posts)lark
(23,061 posts)Religious zealots are strongly right wing, not just on social issues but on every issue. If we're lucky, some of them might just not vote, but I wouldn't even count on that, much as I'd like to.
MADem
(135,425 posts)For a long time, fundies didn't vote--they left all that to "God's will."
The GOP successfully motivated them--and other religious groups-- with Reganesque "moral majority" appeals, and they've been on the GOP team ever since...but before that, religious people could actually be motivated towards a very liberal POV by "social justice" issues (the Berrigan brothers, and other Jesuits, for example, during the Vietnam war, to say nothing of MLK and other influential black pastors--you can't get more liberal than those guys).
Religious people have been on the "liberal" team before--and with the right marketing, they could be again. These foolish 'no one's business' faux wedges that the GOP keep trying to shove at people and demand they get upset about them (abortion, equality, e.g.) just don't have the same shock value appeal that they did when they were first brought forward into the national conversation...but poverty, hunger, illness--all those things that actually were discussed in the Bible and are still a problem both here at home and around the world--are still with us.
The smart political tactician will take those elements and run with them--and capture the fundy flag, as it were.
RKP5637
(67,086 posts)"The smart political tactician will take those elements and run with them--and capture the fundy flag, as it were."
MADem
(135,425 posts)clothing the naked and sheltering the homeless and caring for the sick, then maybe they could do some good in this world.
I look at these religious texts from all faith groups, and that's the kind of stuff that resonates across the spectrum--the prophets, be they Jesus-Isa or Muhamad or Name Your Favorite, all sounded like "damn socialists" to me! Wish more people would take those lessons, instead of the "Thou Shalt Nots" to heart!
RKP5637
(67,086 posts)could pull this off, I think. Frankly, I could live in some futuristic society wherein the concept of $$$$ was gone and cooperation meant survival and ALL were equal.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)There are lots of GOPers who are tired of being held hostage by the evangelical wing of the party.
TeamPooka
(24,205 posts)from 10 feet tall down to 6 feet.
No Mike, the correct analogy is that gay marriage let's everyone on the court to play the game.
mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)From your lips to Hell's ears Mike. Then the GOP can be eve LESS relavent, granted, there still will be a right wing, but Bill and Hillary will be running that side of the fence.
formercia
(18,479 posts)Your assistance is requested by the GOP!!
Smilo
(1,944 posts)please.
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)Dick Cheney.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Let the great gnarling and gnashing begin in pubbyworld.
louis-t
(23,266 posts)bye.
florida08
(4,106 posts)"Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand" 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Blue Owl
(50,249 posts)C'mon Mike, show the world what a split GOP would look like...
durablend
(7,455 posts)RKP5637
(67,086 posts)population and don't deserve a damn thing. So, he wants to split the party over less than 2% of the population getting some civil rights. If LGBT is less than 2% of the population (according to these twerps) WTF is the big deal. This, shows how easily they are controlled and how stupid they are if this can cause them to split the party. Be my guest, DO IT!!! DO IT!!! DO IT!!!
nonoyes
(261 posts)And tell him we're with him, we will all "leave the Republican Party"!
That should get this idea moving. Huck will think he's got support for his idea.
Then he'll leave the Republican Party, start a third party, a few million righties will join him, and we Dems will win elections from now on.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Go for it, Huck! If the GOP backs marriage equality then there'll be no real difference between the two major parties, so it's time for a stand on principle!
existentialist
(2,190 posts)If they now fully come to understand that they really have nothing in common, well its about time.
Now if they could just manage to wake up to a few other realities . . .
Monk06
(7,675 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)who may have had a role in dragging this country into a lying war for Bush anyway.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)So he should not seek to run to the Democrat party, we don't want you, stay away.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Cha
(296,790 posts)dare you.
DFW
(54,272 posts)Their votes are made for walking
And that's just what they'll do
One of these their votes
Are gonna walk right out on you......
Javaman
(62,500 posts)I seriously doubt that mr huckabee has that kind of voice or alleged power to exact any kind of "split".
If there is a split of any kind, it will be him and his hand full of narrow dopes left at the station.
toby jo
(1,269 posts)providing so fucking much enlightenment to the clan.
leeroysphitz
(10,462 posts)nakocal
(544 posts)Mike Huckabee and his ilk do NOT support any of the actual teachings of Jesus. They are NOT Christians.
caledesi
(11,903 posts)The Founders Fathers were smart. They knew this could happen. That's why they included separation of church and state. Oh yeah!