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I'm not so sure. While Rudy is up in national polls, Romney is winning in Iowa and New Hamshire and making up lots of ground on the leadier in South Carolina Fred Thompson.
Rudy leads in most Florida polls but if Romney can win some of the early primaries...blah blah blah, you know the story.
Yeah, but I also know how the GOP works with the king-making. Whenever the front-runner is chosen, everyone completely forgets whatever problems they had with him in the first place and they all fall in line against the forces of godless communism.
It absolutely kills me how weird people are about Romney. He's like the perfect Republican politician. If people didn't have a problem with the fact that he's a Mormon, he'd be a gigantic election-winning juggernaut. Religious bigotry is saving this election for the Democrats.
If the trend continues like in bible-belt SC, they are being swayed.
I don't see the religious right different from any other voting block really. I mean its the primary season and some are endorsing Romney and others Rudy. I expect they'll come together to vote the most conservative in the national. Doesn't seem to be outawhack to me.
I know thats how you think all christians are zip. I've got that already. I think you get this but I was tossin out my thoughts on how they vote as a block in primaries.
Wow! At first I actually thought that was Hitler...Quote:
Originally Posted by Zip Goshboots
What gets me is that Utah is so solidly Republican, even though there's far more Republicans that preach LDS as a satanic cult than Democrats.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Swami
Klansmen and southern blacks both tend to be socially conservative, but you don't often see them on the same side of the political table.
This is a theory I have: there are a lot of groups that tend to be natural conservatives.Quote:
Originally Posted by Uncle Mxy
- Blacks tend to be socially conservative and distrust government regulation
- Mexican immigrants are strongly bound to a tradition that emphasizes individual responsibility, saving money, and investing
- "out" gays are lopsidedly upper-middle-class and are very concerned about taxes and public safety
- Feminists are very concerned about authoritarianism and personal freedoms
- Muslims are very socially conservative and crave a law-and-order kind of government that at least pays lip service to God
But they don't (in general) vote for Republicans, because Republicans can't keep themselves from shitting all over these groups, in different ways, and I think I know why.
The GOP made a deal with the devil. They identified a portion of the American public who was dull-witted, easily impressed by authority, easily scared by threats, and easily swayed by flashy marketing. It's not a whole lot of people, but the Republicans totally locked that electorate up so they could be useful in close elections. They're not clever, but they always do as they are told, so you can always count on them to bail you out if the election is just close enough to scare them.
But now this group is starting to get a little more sophisticated and asking the kinds of questions you usually get from this kind of thicko - like "Krang want to know: what in it for Krang, unga bunga?" And "Krang want to know: why you make friend with People From Other Side Of Moutain, unga bunga?"
The Republicans, by refusing to give up Krang and all the rest of the people in his village of grass huts, make it absolutely impossible to court the kind of voters that have even a slightly different agenda than Krang does. The Republicans have gone out of their way to secure a voting bloc that is essentially selfish and paranoid, and this voting bloc is going to eat any Republican candidate that does anything but promise them their firstborn child, a herd of new goats, sharper stone axes, and a tougher stance against The People On The Other Side Of The Mountain.
Musharraf released Bhutto's house arrest yesterday and she jumped right out to the streets. If she gets killed, Musharraf suspends the constitution and it will be on this time, imo.
Musharraf kind of said he put her under house arrest for her protection and that he/gov't gives her plenty of protection while she is out and about. She says thats bullshit.
Hopefully things will settle til the elections in Feb. It all comes down to if Musharraf is serious about giving up power cuz Bhutto WILL win in a fair election.