Observations: The QandO Podcast for 19 Feb 12
This week, Michael, and Dale talk about the controversy over the HHS contraception mandate.
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A note to RedState.com
I probably should make it clear that while I’m pointing to RedState.com in the title I’m addressing a particular blogger there. That would be Aaron Gardner who has penned a post entitled “A note to GOProud and other libertarian Tea Partiers”. The crux of his message is that the appeal by GOProud and other members of the Tea Party petitioning the new Republican majority in the House not to get wrapped around the social conservative axle but focus on limited government and fiscal sanity isn’t welcome or appropriate.
As he chooses to put it, these groups have “decided to tell the GOP to put SoCons in the back of the bus”.
Gardner then appoints himself the sole arbiter of what is or isn’t acceptable for the GOP after essentially scolding those who asked the SoCon agenda be secondary to that of the issues that got the GOP elected.
Or to put it another way, as with any successful movement those that had no part in its success now want to dictate how it will be run. And in this case, that would be the SoCons.
Gardner then issues this rather interesting graphic warning.
Let me break this down as simply as I can below the fold.
If we abort this:
Then, this dies with it.:
Choose … wisely.
Huh. Let me see if I can return the favor graphically:
The GOP enjoys the majority it now has because of this …
Without a word about this …
Choice made.
~McQ