A Day In The Life

Grover Norquist imagines typical conservatives at play & work. We wonder how they "can play well together" if all they want is to be left alone w/ their fetishes.

"The reason why social conservatives and economic conservatives can play well together . . . is the guy who wants to go to church all day just wants to be left alone. So does the guy who wants to play with his gun all day, and the guy who wants to make money all day," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. "They don't agree on how to spend their time, but they do agree on their central issue: They want to be left alone."

Honest to fuck, adolescence is now the central issue for the rubes? "Ma, leave. Me. Alone. You don't understand!" And like any adolescent (take it from this reporter, who is a textbook example of someone drifting between adolescent & juvenile on the maturity scale, w/ occasional visits to infantile) the leave-ME-alone voter just wants to sit around w/o contributing to the household in any way.

"There's an ebb and flow," said Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition. "After 9/11, abortion wasn't the big thing to be discussed. We're in an economic crisis, so we're going to talk about it. We've always believed taxing and spending is a moral issue; how much your son or grandson is going to owe is a moral issue."

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"This is not a replacement strategy," said Rick Tyler of Renewing American Leadership, a year-old public policy group aimed at fostering the connection between social and economic conservatives.

"We will always have the abortion fight; that should never be given up," Tyler said. "But when the central issue of the times is jobs and the economy, we can't just abandon the field. We must provide a Christian message about jobs and economy that is based in faith."

Renewing American Leadership was co-founded by former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The group argues that the strength of both American capitalism and government lies in their Judeo-Christian roots.

The alternative, "socialism, and its American cousin, progressivism," has been "hostile to free enterprise and Judeo-Christian morality," according to a white paper on the group's website.

We'd be happy to leave all of them alone if they promise to stay in their churches fondling their guns, & leave us the fucking hell alone.