Dear George,
I see all your wannabe successors are doing one-eighties as they kiss up to the Religious Right. This is the traditional Rovian strategy of writing off the middle while playing to the base. It’s track record is impressive. God knows, it’s kept you in office longer that you should have been. But, yesterday’s success is today’s failure.
Maybe the GOP candidate should take a hard look at what has happened to the Religious Right in the last six years:
- They have seen their factories shuttered and are now working as greeters at Wal-Mart’s.
- They have had a loved one killed, maimed or psychologically damaged in Iraq, or know of someone who has.
- They are in danger of losing their house to a subprime lender.
- They have had an aging parent bounced out of long-term care because they ran out of money.
- They can’t get ill because they have no paid sick leave and little or no health insurance.
George, you can’t talk about family values when mom and dad are working sixty hours a week, each, just to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. Your “have-more” may be the party’s financial, but the Religious Right wins the elections for you.
And that base is falling away. People can’t get worked up over gay marriage when they’re worried sick about their economic futures.
Tell the candidates to throw the theocrats a bone, and then do another one-eighty, and start playing to the middle. Republican never flip-flop, they simply pander.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
4:49:37 AM 
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