Will the Christian right flee the GOP?

[DonViejo]

Republican civil war heats up as social conservatives feel abandoned and threatened to form a third party

BY ALEX SEITZ-WALD

Will social conservatives really make good on their threats, and form their own political party? With the course of history and their own political allies leaving them in the dust, the group is facing an existential crisis that has left them at the nadir of their power with no obvious path to recovery — and now they’re getting desperate.

Inside the conservative movement, the Tea Party has displaced evangelical activists as the dynamic force, pushing economic issues ahead of social ones, while voters affirmed their support for gay rights and punished candidates with restrictionist views on abortion in 2012. In their “autopsy report,” the Republican National Committee essentially suggested abandoning social conservatives — despite leaning on them heavily just a few years ago to elect and reelect George W. Bush — and even the movement conservatives at CPAC had little appetite for the Christian-right causes of yore.

Needless to say, social conservatives are not happy about this state of affairs are are now lashing out against their friends, threatening to leave the GOP if it doesn’t join them on the wrong side of history.

“The vast majority of the GOP base believes that marriage is a non-negotiable plank,” Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said recently. “If the RNC abandons marriage, evangelicals will either sit the elections out completely, or move to create a third party. Either option puts Republicans on the path to a permanent minority.”

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http://www.salon.com/2013/04/11/will_social_conservatives_flee_gop_form_3rd_party/

[Vincardog]

1. It will not matter as long as unverifiable BBV machines are allowed to continue stealing elections.

[Jackal87]

2. Re:

Nearly half of romney voters were evangelicals. About 24-25 million. If they split then the whole south would be a field day for the democrats in future elections.

[msongs]

4. like liberals/progressives, they are stuck with party leadership who disregards them lately nt

[we can do it]

5. What's wrong Greed n Guns fer God not good enough any more?

[Old Union Guy]

6. It's real simple ...

The big business types really don't want a theocracy.