Monday, March 15, 2010

Tea it up

"'We should be creating the biggest tent possible around the economic conservative issue,' said Ryan Hecker, the organizer behind the Contract From America. 'I think social issues may matter to particular individuals, but at the end of the day, the movement should be agnostic about it. This is a movement that rose largely because of the Republican Party failing to deliver on being representative of the economic conservative ideology. To include social issues would be beside the point.'" [NYT]

(Nods to Neanderbill and to Kevin L)

1 comment:

pino said...

'I think social issues may matter to particular individuals,

I have been saying this for a long time now.

I have been asked why Libertarians seem to vote Republican but not very often Democrat. My response has always been that it is much better to vote a fiscal conservative government and ACT socially responsible than it is to vote for a socially responsible government and ACT fiscally conservative.

If that makes sense.