5 Responses to “Note To Dems: You Run With This”

1. bosshoss429 Says:
   September 5th, 2012 at 6:12 am

   Well, Dick Durbin, the guy that added fees for the banks at the last minute to the latest bank regulations, tried to spin this, again without answering the question; “Why was the word God removed?”

2. Chuck Says:
   September 5th, 2012 at 9:29 am

   Well…in liberal dogma, your rights come only from government. So this makes sense for them.

3. The Big Stink Says:
   September 5th, 2012 at 9:42 am

   Our rights come from nature and – the government, right? God, if there is such a thing, can not be more inclusive than government, ergo – we should worship at the shrine of equity, where all things are equal and everyone drinks from the same cup of government kindness.

   And get someone else to pay for it.

4. Kermit Says:
   September 5th, 2012 at 9:50 am

   I watched this exchange live. The first thing that came to mind? I’m glad he’s on their side.

5. thorleywinston Says:
   September 6th, 2012 at 10:17 am

   I’m torn on this.

   On the one hand, the Dems were pretty quick to try to hold Mitt Romney responsible for anything and everything within the GOP platform (as well as stuff that isn’t in there) so the same should be true for Barack Obama who supposedly approved the platform sans God and Jerusalem and then scrambled to put it back in regardless of what the delegates may have wanted. That’s the problem with banana republics; things that you try to do by fiat are usually done half-assed.

   On the other, it’s pandering and I’m not comfortable with the way that Republicans are going down the same pathway of playing identity politics (which are wholly corrosive) that the Democrats have done for decades. A political party platform doesn’t need to talk about things as personal as religious beliefs or the lack thereof – it should be about policy not proselytizing. And while I’m generally supportive of our alliance with Israel – to the extent that I think it’s in our country’s interests – I’m not comfortable with the way that Republican politicians seem to fall all over themselves to (at least rhetorically) treat a foreign nation’s interests as co-equal to ours. Great Britain is also a close ally (arguably our closest) but when’s the last time you’ve heard a politician end a speech with “God Bless America and Great Britain?”

   Whatever short-term gain there may be in hoisting Democrats on their own petard over this may end up costing us more down the road by continuing the cycle of pandering and grievance.

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