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The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend:
"a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego)."Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist."
(Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger."
(MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
--"Joe"
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Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 12:45:00 PM EDT
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Wow. I knew my brain was different, but not for this f*cking reason. This former aide to Bill Frist said, during a Heritage Foundation lunch for winger bloggers strategized how the right could attack SCOTUS nom Judge Sonia Sotomayor without alienating Latinos. (Think Progress):Hispanic polls, Hispanic surveys, indicate that Hispanics think just like everyone else. We're not like African-Americans. We think just like everybody else. When I was on the leader's staff, someone called me once and asked me: 'What's Senator Frist's Hispanic agenda?' I said, 'low taxes, better education, more jobs ... what are you talking about?' And that's how Hispanics are. This is an opportunity to educate them on all of our issues and they will resonate in the way that they resonate with everyone else. Miranda, a paragon of virture, had to resign after hacking into the computers of Senate Democrats to obtain strategy on judicial nominations. Adam Sewer at Tapped said:What does it mean that Latinos are "not like African-Americans" because they "think like everyone else"? I'm interested to hear Miranda's explanation of the cognitive differences between black people and the rest of America. Miranda's statement is of the garden "divide and conquer" and "anything but black" variety. It's an obvious wedge that has worked over and over in our country's history as ethnic minorities have come to America, assimilated, and do a social leapfrog over blacks as the most hated/feared minority. The Latino population is primed to be the next group to do this, except the virulent anti-immigration wing of the GOP has alienated that voter base so badly that it's hard to imagine, regarding the Sotomayor nom, that this wedge plan is going to work. These GOP-ers have no other game to play than this because they bereft of ideas that are palatable to Americans of any color.
And it shows in the latest Gallup poll -- 89% of Republicans are non-Hispanic whites. They are down to the overlapping base of the McCain/Palin mobs, fundies, and country club Republicans who don't want to be seen with the other two groups. 
These data reinforce the basic challenge facing the Republican Party today as it ponders how best to remedy a situation that finds Democrats in control of the White House and both houses of Congress. Republicans have a clear monopoly on the allegiance of white conservative Americans, but the GOP's challenge is figuring out whether this is enough of a base on which to build for the future. The alternative is for the GOP to broaden its base to include more minorities and/or more whites who are moderate or liberal in their ideological outlook -- groups now predominantly loyal to the Democratic Party.
And when you factor religion in, the fundievagelical influence is clear:
About half of Republicans are non-Hispanic whites who are strongly religious, defined as those who attend church about once a week or more frequently. Forty percent of Republicans are whites who attend less frequently. Democrats, on the other hand, comprise only 20% highly religious whites, with more than twice as many whites who attend church less frequently. The pattern of church attendance among independents is similar to that among Democrats, but independents have higher percentages of whites in both the religious and the nonreligious categories.
...Does the Republican Party in essence "stick to the knitting" and cling to its core conservative principles? Or should the Republicans make an effort to expand their base -- among whites who are moderate or less religious, and/or the various nonwhite groups who to this point are largely ignoring the Republican Party in favor of the Democrats? The decision the party makes in response to this question could be pivotal in helping determine its future.
Somehow, I don't think the Base will allow them to shift to the middle, particularly if the voice of the fringe, Rush Limbaugh, continues to threaten any mildly moderate Republican voice. |
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