It is open season on Social Conservatives now. The Media, various GOP leaders and bloggers like Kid Icarus are blaming Social Cons for the fall of the Republican Party. Their leaders feel scapegoated and are trying to fight back.
Social Conservative Leaders Feel Scapegoated
There is a brooding sense within top social conservative circles that they have become the revolving scapegoat of the Republican Party. Many of the longtime leaders of the Christian right, from Richard Land to Tony Perkins to Gary Bauer, expressed resentment in extended interviews with a singular theme: that the most loyal GOP bloc has been so quickly thrown under many critics’ bus.
“There are powerful interest groups in the party and in the country that are trying to scapegoat social conservatives,” Land said, who has long served as a bridge between Southern Baptists’ political concerns and GOP leadership. “It’s people who have no problem ignoring facts.”
The Republican Party’s problem are its economic views. The GOP solution for everything is a Tax cut for Capital Gains. The GOP needs to become more innovative in its policies if it ever wants to win again. Blaming Social Conservatives for the Republican’s defeat is wrong and stupid. What is needed is new economic ideas, not throwing Social Cons under the bus as Kid Icarus and his ilk suggest.
