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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: MrLucky who wrote (21817)6/23/2006 2:35:01 AM
From: RMF   of 541816
 
I think "partisanship" in this country is mostly related to social issues. Without the gay-marriage issue in the last election, Bush could easily have lost despite Kerry's glaring deficiencies as a candidate.

Since the 1960's, the republicans have latched onto "down-home" values as a rallying cry. Roe v. Wade allowed them to add a religious aspect to their message. They then not only represented good manners and a disciplined love of country, they also represented the "GOOD BOOK" and its precepts.

WHOOOOA....then the GAY thing came along. Manna from heaven for the republicans. They were the true Christian Party when it came to abortion....and NOW they were the ONLY defenders against a Deviancy so hideous that it could not be spoken of in mixed company.

Beginning with Reagan, they were not only the TRUE party of GOD, they were also the only true party of FREEDOM. And what represents a lack of freedom to MOST Americans? TAXES are the shackles that bind Americans. The insidious infringement on their daily lives is financed with TAXES. By cutting taxes you not only free them from an unwanted financial burden, you also free them from the suffocating intrusion of government into their daily lives.

So that's where partisanship came from in the last 30 some years or so....<grin>
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