Thought of the Day
More Americans are comfortable voting for a gay person for President than an evangelical Christian. Think about that for just a minute. Seems like *somebody* took back the mantle of the Moral Majority, right? And if I’m Reince Priebus, I’m seriously worried. Because there’s a clear light at the end of the tunnel for the angry old white people strategy.
The majority of Americans are not only rooting for marriage equality — they’re also fine with the idea of a gay president, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. In fact, most Americans would rather see a gay candidate for president than an evangelical Christian or a Tea Partier jockeying for the White House. In the poll, conducted by Hart Research Associates and Public Opinion Strategies for the news organizations in late April, 61 percent of respondents said they’d be either enthusiastic about or comfortable with a gay presidential candidate. For an evangelical candidate, just 52 percent said they’d be enthusiastic. And in a showing of how unpopular the Tea Party is, just 33 percent said they’d react with enthusiasm or at least a degree of comfort to a candidate affiliated with that conservative movement.
Tags: GOP Bamboozlement
If the GOP manages to nominate Cruz or Huckabee… this election could be a blowout of historic proportions.
That’s because evangelical Christians and Tea Partiers are scary. They use to try and hide their crazy scary, but now they let that freak flag fly… usually right at other people’s rights.
“If the GOP manages to nominate Cruz or Huckabee”
Sadly cooler and richer heads will prevail, the Republican elite are cruel and calculating as opposed to flaming and insane and will not allow it. But we can dream, can’t we? Ah, the joy of a 20 point humiliation in 2016, followed by cries of “we were not conservative enough!”.
Cooler and richer heads are likely to prevail, but they will still be pandering to evangelicals and their need to curtail the liberties of everyone who is not a white man.