GOP leader: Rebuild party based on 'sanctity of marriage'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

This one's sure to get a discussion going.

The Republican brand is still alive and well, Rep. Mike Pence said on Fox News Sunday.

When asked by Chris Wallace what "conservative solutions" the GOP would bring to their current minority-party status, Pence said social issues like "the sanctity of marriage" will remain the backbone of the Republican platform.

"You build those conservative solutions, Chris, on the same time-honored principles of limited government, a belief in free markets, in the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage," Pence said.

The Indiana representative cited the ballot measures against gay marriage that passed on Election Day as evidence of the continuing presence of conservative values.

"There were three state referendums on marriage ... all three carried. The vitality of the conservative movement around the country is very real," said Pence.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/GOP_leader_Rebuild_party_based_on_1109.html

[Skittles]

1. newsflash for you repuke assholes

it won't work - Americans are increasingly becoming sick of hatred and fear and ignorance as a party platform

[cliffordu]

2. boy these motherfuckers SHORE DO like thier "Wedge issues", don't they?

Toxic scumbags.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Interesting. Well a friend of mine and I are waging a little war to prove....

how hypocritical most of the American white Christian churches are.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Building a party on wedge issues is not a sustainable model

not with so many real, important, life-or-death issues facing us. What next - rallying around an amendment against burning the flag?!

These flacks can probably attract a certain segment of the population as adherents, but they're an increasingly marginalized minority.

[DJ13]

5. Good!

Ignore the fact that your extremist conservative ideals lost you the last two elections.

Go even further to the right!

What a bunch of idiots.

[Vickers]

6. McCain? Divorced. Reagan? Divorced. Limbaugh? Divorced.

Ted Nugent? Divorced.

Don't preach to me about the sanctity of marriage, you scumsucking douchebags.

[camera obscura]

11. Don't forget Gingrich!

since he wants to be the hero of 2012...

[Enthusiast]

21. Say it again, brother!

They have a higher divorce rate than those considering themselves 'liberal'.

[Historic NY]

7. Does that mean they intend to do something about adultery & divorce too?

[Beartracks]

8. Nah. If they keep gays from forming matrimonial relationships...

... then those problems will clearly solve themselves.
:eyes:

[Crunchy Frog]

9. And then they're going to try to run Newt Gingrich in 2012.

:rofl:

[QC]

10. Does this mean they will outlaw divorce? n/t

[nickgutierrez]

12. Yeah! Go for it, morons!

Put yourselves aboard a platform that's gonna fall right out from under you. Go for it!

[Shallah Kali]

13. Sanctity of Life? Oh goody! Universal Health Care here we come!!!

.

[Juche]

14. Mike Pence sucks.

A few months ago Pence was talking about how the GOP could be revitalized by fighting government expansion like SCHIP. Yeah, thats what americans want. Politicans who spend trillions on unnecessary wars and tax cuts on the wealthy but oppose spending a tiny fraction of that on healthcare for kids.

SCHIP has support from about 80% of the public.

[ruggerson]

15. This is EXACTLY why our side needs to start being COURAGEOUS about supporting equal marriage rights

and learning how to frame it and make the case to the American public.

Instead, most of them try to straddle the issue and end up looking weak and unauthentic.

We're on the winning side generationally. We're already close to 50/50 in the polls and in five to ten years, we'll be the majority.

[2dogs2queets]

16. "limited government"

Limited government seems to mean complete control over my personal choices.

[sharesunited]

17. Pence introduced the Broadcaster Freedom Act to try to block the return of the Fairness Doctrine.

This guy is a menace to justice.

[Antennas]

18. Note that it's usually the repukes that are caught cheating on their wives, too.

Boy how they love to project.

[kiranon]

19. And they are looking to Newt Gingrich who has had a series of wives?

The sanctity of marriage includes abandoning any wife who gets sick or old or is not rich or photogenic enough? Hmmmm. Not sure which Bible they are reading. Must be one of those self published ones they wrote themselves.

[TexasObserver]

20. Wedge Issues are all they know, because it's how they think.

They're encouraged because they won on gay marriage in California and Florida, so they intend to work that angle.

I hope their efforts at being divisive fail. They're on a course to reduce the GOP to about 30%, and nominate Palin in 2012.