The majority of the people in this country do not believe in evolution. And the vast majority of that majority is the consituency of Bush's and Rove's party. The Republican Party, once a party who projected strength in foreign affairs and sound fiscal management (albeit at the expense of the poor and working class), is now nothing more than reckless, policy-bankrupt electoral coalition dominated by those eschew rationality in their daily life.
As such, its time to start pegging the GOP with the label "The Creationist Party."
Ideally, the moniker serves as a trap. First they'll embrace it, but in so doing they'll expose their extremism -- very much the mirror image of what the Democratic core's embrace of principles of tolerance, which unfortunately IS extreme in this country today, did to our party via the gay marriage debate.
The majority of the people in this country do not believe in evolution. And the vast majority of that majority is the consituency of Bush's and Rove's party. The Republican Party, once a party who projected strength in foreign affairs and sound fiscal management (albeit at the expense of the poor and working class), is now nothing more than reckless, policy-bankrupt electoral coalition dominated by those eschew rationality in their daily life.
As such, its time to start pegging the GOP with the label "The Creationist Party."
Here's what will happen:
---It will go unchallenged by Rove's core. They want to be "The Creationist" party;
---It emphasizes what is so appalling about these guys to Easterners, west-coasters, and University-townfolk who make up the core for the good guys;
AND
---it will start to drive a necessary wedge between the "Reasonable" (in multiple senses of the word) republicans who started to calve off of the Rove Constituency in the days before the election. By which I mean not only Eisenhower's son, the ex-guv of Michigan, the ex-Senator of New Hampshire, but also my rural Massachusetts in-laws (and people like them).
Ideally, the moniker serves as a trap. First they'll embrace it, but in so doing they'll expose their extremism -- very much the mirror image of what the Democratic core's embrace of principles of tolerance, which unfortunately IS extreme in this country today, did to our party via the gay marriage debate.