Ted Cruz speaks at a conference that wants the “religious liberty” to kill gays
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.
Yawn..
“Yawn..”
Perhaps. But if Ted Cruz wins the nomination, it says something very dark and troubling about the GOP. I tend to try and play down the “this is the end of the GOP as a national party” type stories – but if Cruz gets the nod from the GOP primary voters, I think it might (it certainly SHOULD) be the end of he GOP as a national party.
Sure there will be Republican voters who reflexively vote Republican because it is their team. These GOP voters don’t give a fuck that the party now wants Americans (albeit gay Americans) rounded up and killed. They don’t give a fuck that their party’s economic policies have been tried and failed. That’s their team.
But that is 20% of all voters at best. That isn’t enough to be a legitimate national party, regardless of how ruthlessly districts have been gerrymandered.
“legitimate national party”
Your are right and they know this, but their long game theory is that if they control the local and state levels, they will be able to organically grow “real” conservatives who will be primed for the state wide and national levels.
While that’s an interesting theory, the efficacy of that plan won’t be determined for many years to come when most of the authors are dead and gone and the nation has moved on. By the time the “real” conservatives are ready, there will no longer be any widespread interest or acceptance of “real” conservatism.
In short, evolution, which “real” conservatives disavow, will be the death of them.