Reply #50: And you know when the GOP became a truly effective opposition party? [View All]

[GOPNotForMe]

It was when they decided to very clearly distinguish themselves from US. And now that they've got a very clear message and agenda (war, "family values", religious bigotry, and intolerance), people are flocking to them! Do you REALLY think that people would have switched their votes from Bush to Kerry because Kerry makes some willy-nilly pseudo-endorsement of gay marriange bans? Hell no! They've already got a candidate who is WHOLELY AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE. Hell, they've got a whole PARTY that is! All it would have done is alienate actual loyalists, like myself. It would have been a stupid, and in my opinion immoral political, maneuver. THAT'S one of the reasons so many people feel that politics is bullshit and therefore don't vote: they think politicians are just saying whatever to win votes. If Kerry had gone bolder and presented a true opposition to Bush from the beginning, maybe we wouldn't be in this situation. Maybe we would, I really don't know. But moving further to the right, when there is already a party about a RIGHT AS YOU CAN GET is just political suicide!