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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (684059)	11/9/2012 12:55:56 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583492

All systems tent to try to perpetuate themselves. Allowing such persons to vote would undermine the system. Exactly. I couldn't have put it better. Slightly off the topic, but Republicans are going to have to move toward a more Libertarian view if they want to have a say in the process. If, in fact, Texas turns blue as some here and elsewhere have suggested, the choice will be to back off the social conservatism to get some control over the fiscal insanity of the Democrats, OR to lose it all. I understand some people believe abortion is killing and I just don't know how a person deals with it other than to say, "There are some things in life I cannot control." The Democrats will kill the country if the fiscal matters are left to them. The GOP must lose the hypocrisy of claiming to be for individual rights yet interfering in personal decisions such as abortion, gay marriage, and drug laws. Personally, I have opposed gay marriage for years, not on any kind of moral basis, but on the grounds the legal system can't easily accommodate it. But the time has come for the GOP to state without equivocation that it is getting out of people's lives. Doing so will leave the Democrats in a difficult spot. The Democrats will continue to push interference in people's private lives, and the GOP will be able to forge a position that it is the party of individual freedom. Right now, these few issues make the GOP just as guilty of invading the personal space of voters as Democrats are. The choice is to become more tolerant on social issues and retain the upper hand on fiscal issues. Or to give it all up. A musician friend told me a few weeks ago, "This election is going to be about social issues." I told him, "That's nuts, given the fiscal crisis." He was right. The Dems were successful in putting the more important fiscal matters in the back seat while they drove home with the minor issue of abortion and gay marriage.