(I’m being facetious here, but I couldn’t resist.)

My comment was more meant to comment on these teeshirts — I find them ridiculous and horribly ignorant. I for one refuse to vote for anyone who stands for these bigoted, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, jackoffs that are in no way representative of the true nature and spirit of Christianity.

I maintain that there’s a bloc of voters who are currently going to the Repubs but would be willing to support government social programs — and might swing Democratic if a Democrat reached out to them and convinced them that their compassion for the poor, not their terror of gay marriage, should guide their vote

Well, sure, I don’t think anyone disagrees with that. But again, those aren’t the people going to CPAC. The bloc of voters who are anti-choice but who believe in economic justice may certainly exist, but as it stands they’re letting the religious right speak for them. I agree that Democrats need to speak to those people and emphasize compassion and social justice, but at the end of the day I wonder how many staunch religious Republican voters do actually care all that much about the plight of the poor if it means that they’ll have to pay higher taxes.

I’m not trying to demonize individual conservatives, because I think you’re right that many of them are much more compassionate and level-headed than the religious right would suggest. But the fact stands that the power brokers for the “Moral Majority” in this country — which is what I was referencing in this post — most certainly are hostile to the poor.

America’s Universities
The Last Bastion of Communism

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Yeah, right!

If they think American Universities, especially the Ivy League are bastions of Communism, they obviously never visited the campuses of Berkeley, Oberlin, or Antioch. Compared to those three and other like-minded schools, most American Universities are bastions of the consumerist centrist-right.

Actually, most of those shirts aren’t representative of “the moral majority.” If Huckabee’s candidacy has shown us anything, it’s that there is a significant divide between fiscal conservatives and religious conservatives — many people who oppose legal abortion would NOT say that poverty is about “stupid and lazy.”

Sadly, no. Are there individuals who oppose legal abortion but don’t think the poor are stupid and lazy? Sure. But they aren’t the kind of people who are going to CPAC, and they aren’t particularly influential in the Republican machine. The fact is that if you look at the full agendas and issue positions of all the “pro-life” groups in the United States, almost all of them either take no position or oppose programs that would help the poor and would lower the abortion rate, like universal health care, birth control access, welfare, etc. You’re fooling yourself if you think that the organized Religious Right has any interest at all in helping the poor.