Tent Rants

BIG TENT POLITICS Top Republican Pollster Advises Party To Embrace Gay Marriage ... Top Republican Pollster Advises Party To Embrace Gay Marriage ...  Why is a pollster telling a major political party what it should "embrace"?  And worse, why do the GOP have a history of taking heed?  Political parties coalesce around shared ideas and common values.  In short, if you like our vision, sign up; we will stanchly defend and advance those ideals.   Democrats are about controlling people's lives because they'll botch the deal on their own, and they never, ever, stray (in practice).   It was Top Republican braniacs who came up with the "big tent" idea. WTF?  Forget who you are.  Forget whatever  convictions you may have; the way to win is to pander to the  whiner of the hour.   "How can we have polling data touted by all the media which shows overwhelming national support, except in the black community, wherever you go, of gay marriage, and yet every time it's come up on the ballot, loses.  It hasn't even come close to winning when it's put to a vote.  It's just like Obama's likability numbers.  The people that give him a job approval (unintelligible) support health care, 30%, 35% still support Obamacare.  Sixty-five percent likability.  Nothing gels here."  -Rush ....Advises Party To Embrace Reparations for slavery (that they gave their lives to end).  ....Advises Party To Embrace Feminism.  ....Advises Party To Embrace Illegal Immigrants.  ....Advises Party to Embrace Compromise When not telling the GOP how to be more like the people whose very ideas, if not guts, they ought to hate, they instruct the Catholic Church how to sparkle.  Top Religion Pollster Advises Church to  embrace birth control, ... embrace  abortion ... embrace women priests, .... embrace gay marriage,   and no church on Sunday. You 'll get  more  people to jine-up Mr. Pope.  The GOP have listened to the "experts,  and look what it's got them - and us.  The GOP are still fighting the Tea Party for chrisake, despite getting clobbered by us in 2010.   The Pope however has principles,  and  has taken a stand for a smaller church of more ardent believers over a larger community that relies on what he sees as diluted doctrine.  That's the way it's supposed to be done.