Reaping as they sowed: How the culture wars are smiting the GOP

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I don't know....seems to me the GOP (as well as many DEMS) have done their damndest to muck up government,
to make it completely dysfunctional while blurring the distinctions between government
and the private sector. If government fails the corporations win and complete
their 'coup'. Whether the GOP intentionally created the current dismemberment of their own party
to expedite this transition to corporate rule or it is a result of an ill-conceived strategy gone awry, the outcome is the same. We are, very
soon facing the question of what our government will look like in the future and WHO will
be at the helm. We The People need to consider with great care what future WE choose at this pivotal time in our. history.
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In 2004, Republicans viewed the specter of gay marriage as a political gift from the gods.

One year earlier, the Massachusetts Supreme Court had struck down state laws that limited marriage to opposite-sex couples. In February 2004, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (now California’s lieutenant governor) authorized marriages of same-sex couples inside the city limits, though courts soon put a stop to that.

To Republican strategists generally, and to Karl Rove, chief strategist for President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign, in particular, the very thought of gay marriage wending its way from such Gomorrah-like settings as Cambridge, Massachusetts, and San Francisco to a church near you provided a path not just to boost evangelical turnout in November’s election, but also to convince that great silent majority, on whom Republican candidates relied, that Democrats and liberals threatened the moral fabric of the nation.

In swing states like Ohio, fear of same-sex marriage, which Rove had made sure to stoke, was a major reason why Bush prevailed over Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.

But that was oh, so then.

If it wasn’t obvious before, it’s become hi-definition clear in the past few weeks that the culture wars, long a powerful wedge that Republicans wielded against the Democrats, have now become a dagger that cleaves GOP ranks down the middle.

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http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/04/08/reaping-as-they-sowed-how-the-culture-wars-are-smiting-the-gop/