Ted Cruz speaks at a conference that wants the “religious liberty” to kill gays

Ted Cruz speaks at a conference that wants the “religious liberty” to kill gays

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The virulence of the anti-gay hate on the right is now officially out of control. If you can stomach it, click on this video and skip to minute 6 to listen to the "Christian" "Pastor" who organized the Gay Hate Fest in Iowa attended by Ted Cruz. Merely being within 500 yards of this guy should disqualify a person from becoming the GOP nominee, but Ted Cruz ACTUALLY SPOKE AT HIS CONFERENCE. Cruz, naturally, used the conference to get his victimhood on:
“These threats are not imagined,” Cruz said. “There is a war on faith in America today. In our lifetimes, did we ever imagine that in the land of the free and home of the brave we would be witnessing our government persecute its citizens for their faith?”
Persecution of Christians apparently means making them bake cakes for gay weddings. Meanwhile, and unironically, the "Pastor" hosting the event demands the "religious liberty" to kill homosexuals in accordance with the teachings of the book of Leviticus.
Tuesday Open Thread [11.10.2015]

Tuesday Open Thread [11.10.2015]

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Washington Post: “As Trump has become the defining character of this Republican presidential primary contest, the race itself has seemed to take on elements of his personality — in particular, his aggressive, seemingly shameless rejection of the idea that he has ever been wrong.” “The influence is especially strong in Fiorina and Carson, the two other political outsiders, who have risen in Trump’s slipstream. All three will be onstage Tuesday evening in Milwaukee for the fourth televised GOP debate.” “As with Trump, some of these outsiders’ most memorable debate moments have come when they uttered statements that turned out to be exaggerated or untrue. And, like Trump, they have played to a distrustful electorate by criticizing the fact-checkers and refusing to acknowledge that any facts were wrong.” Reality has a liberal bias. Not the media.
Not Breaking: The Dem’s message doesn’t inspire.

Not Breaking: The Dem’s message doesn’t inspire.

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Based on the polling, Secretary Clinton should crush Ted Cruz. But polls don't vote, people do. And right now, the Cruz voters are fired up - and the Clinton voters aren't. But that isn't surprising. Democrats have spent 25 years honing a simple, yet wholly uninspiring message - "We are a little less crappy than them!" IT IS A HORRIBLE MESSAGE THAT HAS FAILED, AND FAILED, AND FAILED. Yet, with that terrible track record, the Beltway geniuses who run the Democratic Party are about to run that play one more time.

the Democrats’ problem is social capital

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Peter
Notwithstanding the fiasco that is the GOP presidential primary so far, Matthew Yglesias warns, “The Democratic Party is in much greater peril than its leaders or supporters recognize, and it has no plan to save itself. … The vast majority — 70 percent of state legislatures, more than 60 percent of governors, 55 percent of attorneys general and secretaries of state — are in Republicans hands. And, of course, Republicans control both chambers of Congress.” A major factor is the turnout gap. That is worse for Democrats in local and off-year elections but will persist in 2016. Today, the pollsters Greenberg/Quinlan/Rosner report that “unmarried women, minorities, and particularly millennials are less interested in next year’s voting than seniors, conservatives, and white non-college men are.”