Conservative columnist Star Parker seems to be off to a good start with her assessment of what needs to occur when the Republican renaissance begins, then she runs off the road when she claims the economic conservatives and the evangelical conservatives need to merge into one mighty river (presumably washing away everything in its path). Obviously, the GOP needs the Christian conservatives --- without them, the party vanishes like a wisp of smoke in a stiff breeze. Unfortunately, they're too often allowed to dictate the conservative political agenda. Since much of my own political philosophy is shaped around separation of church and state, the evangelical influence on the GOP agenda is a deal killer for me.
Maybe someday the GOP will come up with a plan to win elections without pandering to the evangelical community by allowing them to write most of the rules. If that day ever comes, I'll be glad to give 'em a look.
Added 11:04 pm: Changing the subject a little, this from Huffington Post on the health care bill passed in the House. Because the current Congress is totally dysfunctional, I'm afraid my worst fears are coming true --- a really ugly mess of a bill has been passed, and anything that ultimately makes it into law will probably be even worse. In the long run, Democrats would have been better off simply cutting their losses and tossing the whole thing in the trash when it became clear there was no party unity on the issue. No bill is much better than a bad bill, which seems like what we're destined to end up with --- and when the smoke clears and the screaming dies down, we'll have something nobody will be happy with, and both parties will share the blame. I say the Republicans should kill this thing dead in its tracks, and let the political chips fall where they may.
Added 7:48 am, Tuesday, 10 November: An interesting column by Paul Krugman on the teabaggers and why they need to be taken seriously.
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