Republicans explode?

[faethor]

I heard an interesting theory. There is in fighting in the Republicans. The Christian Right (who btw are neither right nor christian) put up Palin to help ensure they can maintain contol in the part. McCain on the other hand is supported from the libertarians and fiscal conservatives. If McCain-Palin loses both portions are going to end up blaming each other and this may prove to split the party. The Fun Christians starting their own party and the more classic conservatives continuing to have their party.

Thoughts?

 

[Wayne]

I heard an interesting theory. There is in fighting in the Republicans. The Christian Right (who btw are neither right nor christian) put up Palin to help ensure they can maintain contol in the part. McCain on the other hand is supported from the libertarians and fiscal conservatives. If McCain-Palin loses both portions are going to end up blaming each other and this may prove to split the party. The Fun Christians starting their own party and the more classic conservatives continuing to have their party.

Thoughts?

It amazes me that this is the first election when I didn't vote "none of the above" or blanket Republican across the board since I started voting in 1984.

Perhaps splitting the party and segmenting all the diehard religious nutjobs isn't a bad idea.

BTW, saw Religulous today (finally, a Huntsville theater grew a pair of balls, even if it was the "artsy theater") and while I openly admit that -- at times -- Bill Maher went too far insulting the people he was interviewing, overall I really enjoyed the movie and believe he made a lot of good, strong points about peoples' crutch on religion..

Wayne

 

[faethor]

BTW, saw Religulous today (finally, a Huntsville theater grew a pair of balls, even if it was the "artsy theater") and while I openly admit that -- at times -- Bill Maher went too far insulting the people he was interviewing, overall I really enjoyed the movie and believe he made a lot of good, strong points about peoples' crutch on religion..

Interesting. Bill Maher in general has some good points and some crazy ones (eg Drs do no good.).

This same week the DVD for Expelled came out. So those that missed it can pick it up. I'm not sure about the cover however. It's a picture of Ben Stein with a quote from a reviewer giving it 4 stars. That reviewer is Ben Stein. I think that detracts from the films credibility.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

BTW, saw Religulous today (finally, a Huntsville theater grew a pair of balls, even if it was the "artsy theater") and while I openly admit that -- at times --

I saw that a few weeks back. It played as part of the Vancouver film festival. I wasn't sure if it would be at all well attended but when I got there it was packed.

For the most part it was pretty darn funny and I enjoyed the way the segments in which he talked about his own background. What I found very interesting was the way in which, though he was a lapsed Catholic with a Jewish mother he seems to be very much Jewish identified in many ways.

I went to see it with my wife who is Catholic and one of the most interesting things I noticed was our profoundly different reactions to the end of the film.

While the message at the end, that if you are tolerant of religion or if you are a moderate, then you are enabling extremists, is a point that I basically agree with but I felt the ending was heavy handed. I'm an atheist, and that is my position on religion is roughly the same but I felt that maybe that wasn't the most politically effective way to deliver the point. On the other hand, my wife found it thought provoking and compelling. In a way she felt that she had been allowed to feel smug throughout the movie because she wasn't one of those "crazy" religionists, and yet the ending seemed for her to bring the subject around to her personally, i.e. talking to the moderates and saying that lending support to the foundational philosophy of religion lends implicit validity to it's most extreme forms.

 

[faethor]

Republicans break into a 3rd party A good blog more detailed and thought out than my inital post.

Summary :
The Republican Party has been taken over by The Religious Right, The Neoconservative Movement, and Corporate Business Interests.... Many moderate Republicans still do not realize what has happened. They believe the Republican Party is still the same. They follow the Republican rhetoric of today because they haven't stopped to see the hypocrisy, the contradictions, and the slowly-changed priorities.