Well you could say hindsight is 20-20 or they reaped what they sowed but the republican party is all but crushed by it's own recent track record.
The recent migration of Senator Arlen Specter is a bell tolling just how out of whack with mainstream America the GOP has become.
I mean really...how bad does a political party have to be to have your own vanguard members leave it's ranks? Arlen isn't some pissed off drunk in your neighborhood bar changing parties...he is a Senator.
Of course the conservative media is going ape shit about all this, like Senator Specter killed, butchered and ate an infant child on the Senate floor or something but the sad truth is the Republican party brought it on itself.
Religious ideals ( in this case conservative but applies to liberal as well) as basis for legislation goes against everything this country was founded on. PERIOD.
Separation of church and state has been nothing more than a motto since this country's inception.
Even the founding fathers thought of religion as having absolutely no place in a modern government and that was over 2 centuries ago.
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies."
"Lighthouses are more helpful then churches."
-Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father, author, and inventor
"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors." –Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823
"Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies."
"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President, author, scientist, architect, educator, and diplomat
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"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
-Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor
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"There is so much in the bible against which every insinct of my being rebels, so much so that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention."
-Helen Keller, American lecturer
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"Faith is believing something you know ain’t true." "If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian." "It (the Bible) is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies." "A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows." "Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light … by contrast." "I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force."
"If there is a God, he is a malign thug."
"'In God We Trust.' I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true."
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
"Man is a marvelous curiosity . . . he thinks he is the Creator's pet . . . he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." [Letters from the Earth]
- Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist (1835-1910)
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"I was born a heretic. I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."
- Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist (1820-1906)._________________________________________________
"I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe."
- William Howard Taft, U.S. President
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"Religion is all bunk."
"I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul.... No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life – our desire to go on living … our dread of coming to an end."
- Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847-1931)
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"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."
- Abraham Lincoln, American president (1809-1865)
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I could go on but you get the point or are red faced with rage and sputtering profanity by now...
Either way you should be awake to the fact that the pretty picture that has been painted by the conservative media and politicians of the Norman Rockwellian image of America and Americans has NEVER existed as they would have you believe.
Republican conservatives have ruined much of this country by forcing conservative policy and agenda at the cost of human intellectual and national prosperity advancement that will be felt for decades at least.
Still ask why Senator Specter left the GOP?
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