desert dude
Well-Known Member
Me and George think alike on this, hence he is obviously on to something 
. The Republicans are doomed if they don't slit the throats of the socons in their midst.
"The Republicans need to pick a new type of presidential candidate, he says,...one who tilts toward the libertarian side of the Republican Party’s fusion of social and laissez-faire conservatism. Most voters already favor less punitive immigration policies than the ones angrily advocated by clenched-fist Republicans unwilling to acknowledge that immigrating — risking uncertainty for personal and family betterment — is an entrepreneurial act. The speed with which civil unions and same-sex marriage have become debatable topics and even mainstream policies is astonishing. As is conservatives’ failure to recognize this: They need not endorse such policies, but neither need they despise those, such as young people, who favor them. And it is strange for conservatives to turn a stony face toward any reconsideration of drug policies, particularly concerning marijuana, which confirm conservatism’s warnings about government persistence in the teeth of evidence."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-republicans-must-start-over-again/2012/11/09/d7c81db0-29e8-11e2-bab2-eda299503684_story.html
<edit> this was in the comments section from Wills article. It made me chuckle.
"I agree wholeheartedly and still I will share a related joke that I feel Mr. Will would not tell
Gay marriage and weed legalized on same day. Leviticus 20:13 "If a man lays with another man he should be stoned."
. The Republicans are doomed if they don't slit the throats of the socons in their midst."The Republicans need to pick a new type of presidential candidate, he says,...one who tilts toward the libertarian side of the Republican Party’s fusion of social and laissez-faire conservatism. Most voters already favor less punitive immigration policies than the ones angrily advocated by clenched-fist Republicans unwilling to acknowledge that immigrating — risking uncertainty for personal and family betterment — is an entrepreneurial act. The speed with which civil unions and same-sex marriage have become debatable topics and even mainstream policies is astonishing. As is conservatives’ failure to recognize this: They need not endorse such policies, but neither need they despise those, such as young people, who favor them. And it is strange for conservatives to turn a stony face toward any reconsideration of drug policies, particularly concerning marijuana, which confirm conservatism’s warnings about government persistence in the teeth of evidence."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-republicans-must-start-over-again/2012/11/09/d7c81db0-29e8-11e2-bab2-eda299503684_story.html
<edit> this was in the comments section from Wills article. It made me chuckle.
"I agree wholeheartedly and still I will share a related joke that I feel Mr. Will would not tell
Gay marriage and weed legalized on same day. Leviticus 20:13 "If a man lays with another man he should be stoned."