A Schism On The Right?

Events are rapidly accellerating. Sometimes it's impossible to even think about keeping to the "only one post a day" rule.

Seems the Holy Terror Pimps and their G.O.P. Whores are starting to fall out. Can they keep the bitches in line?

Some Seek 'Pink Purge' in the GOP
By Johanna Neuman, Times Staff Writer
October 18, 2006

WASHINGTON — In recent years, the Republican Party aimed to broaden its appeal with a "big-tent" strategy of reaching out to voters who might typically lean Democratic. But now a debate is growing within the GOP about whether the tent has become too big — by including gays whose political views may conflict with the goals of the party's powerful evangelical conservatives.

Some Christians, who are pivotal to the GOP's get-out-the-vote effort, are charging that gay Republican staffers in Congress may have thwarted their legislative agenda. There even are calls for what some have dubbed a "pink purge" of high-ranking gay Republicans on Capitol Hill and in the administration.
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"The big-tent strategy could ultimately spell doom for the Republican Party," said Tom McClusky, chief lobbyist for the Family Research Council, a Christian advocacy group. "All a big-tent strategy seems to be doing is attracting a bunch of clowns."

Now the GOP is facing a hard choice — risk losing the social conservatives who are legendary for turning out the vote, or risk alienating the moderate voters who are crucial to this election's outcome.

"There's a huge schism on the right," said Mike Rogers, a gay-rights activist who runs a blog to combat what he calls hypocrisy among conservative gay politicians. "The fiscal conservatives are furious at the religious conservatives, because they need the moderates for economic policy. But they need the social conservatives to turn out the vote."

The article recalls the whole issue with Condi Rice and Mark Dybul, which I talked about earlier. It also points out that anti-gay senators like George Allen and Rick Santorum actually have gay staffers. On the whole, the article's rather upbeat for the G.O.P. They'll find a way, they say, to pacify everyone for their "big tent."

Bullshit. The so-called "big tent" is open only if you toe the Holy Terrors' line. Case in point, the aforementioned junior senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum.

As previously documented herein, Senator Santorum had actually signed a pledge not to discriminate against gays when it came to hiring practices in his own office, then he recanted that pledge when the Holy Terrors had a collective shit fit. He was (and still is) trailing his Democratic opponent Bob Casey by double digits in the polls, but rather than take a step toward the middle (and toward common decency), he opted to go back to business as usual and suck the collective dicks of the neo-con Christo-fascists who pay his bills and his kids' private school tuitions. If Santorum (and the rest of the G.O.P.) really want to attract more people to their "big tent," they've first got to develop spines made of something other than a frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.

The Holy Terrors will get their bitches back on the leash, even if it costs them Congress.

Good.