Didn't Like GOP Debate? Don't Worry, Next Saturday's Is About God And Gays

[NNN0LHI]

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Didn't Like GOP Debate? Don't Worry, Next Saturday's Is About God And Gays

by David Badash on November 12, 2011

<snip>But next Saturday night, just days before Thanksgiving, the GOP will hold another Republican and Tea Party debate, and it promises to be a doozy!

Streaming live, straight (and I mean, “straight”) to you from the First Federated Church in Des Moines, Iowa, and sponsored by Bob Vander Plaats’ The Family Leader — the folks who brought you this election cycle’s “Marriage Vow,” — you can be sure that God, Guns, and Gays, along with abortion and religious freedom” will be the central topics. And that should make for an interesting cornucopia of controversy. Remember, the GOP is furious — FURIOUS — that same-​sex marriage equality is the law of the land in Iowa, especially since it was enacted by those damn activist Supreme Court judges!

Add to this the fact that (sorry, but,) both Mormons, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, have yet to confirm their participation, and one can only wonder what’s in store.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Get your big fat stinkin totalitarian Republicon noses out of America's bedrooms

America already knows WAY too much about Republicons' sexual issues: the diaper-clad frolics in public bathroom stalls with toe-tapping, luggage-handling, standing-ovation earning, faux lesbian B&D escort rentboy extramarital kinksters, financed with GOP credit cards. Shit, man.

Nobody has a problem with Republicons getting their jollies, as long as its consensual adult stuff.

So go ahead and Party On, Republicons. But get your big fat stinking hypocritical noses out of everyone else's bedrooms.

Americans do not like having your ugly totalitarian fundy-hypocrite government intrusion into private lives.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. I'll be sure to miss that!

Repug hypocrisy is too sickening for me to watch as it happens. The highlights will undoubtedly get posted.

[JoePhilly]

3. I'll need extra popcorn for that one ....

[HopeHoops]

4. They all are. But wait, no guns? Where are the fucking guns?

It can't involve the GOP without guns. Guns, flags, gays and Jesus. That's what the GOP is all about. Well, and no taxes for the rich, but that's obvious.

[RKP5637]

5. Republican Party, home of the fools and ignoramuses. n/t

[TlalocW]

6. Oh, what the hell is the damn point?

All the debates have been the candidates trying to out-conservative each other on the issues. The only disagreements I've seen are the recent ones where a couple of the lower tiered candidates felt water-boarding was torture. Now it's going to be who love God the most and hate gays the most. Color me busy for that debate.

TlalocW

[Jim Lane]

13. The point is to get video clips of Romney pandering to the right-wing extremists.

Then, in the general election, when he tries to tack back toward the center, his own words can be thrown in his face.

I'm guessing Romney will be the nominee. That's not the key point, though -- whichever of them wins will have appeased the theocrats along the way, by saying things that will repel many swing voters. Whichever of them wins will then try to appear more centrist in the general election.

I'll also be busy that night. I'll be secure in my assumption that the DNC has at least two different people taping the debate, to capture every golden moment.

[Frustratedlady]

7. I wonder if they will ask about the pedophiles and sex offenders in their party?

As I recall, there is a long list around here, somewhere.

Vander Platts is radical. Could be interesting.

I still have plenty of popcorn in stock.

[EFerrari]

8. I'd love to see the real viewership numbers.

There are probably more people watching the Occupy streams on those nights.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Hosted by the infamous "slavery was better than having Obama as president" church

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson issued a formal campaign statement regarding a 2012 social pledge unveiled by Bob Vander Plaats, labeling it as “offensive to the principles of liberty and freedom on which this country was founded.”

While the Family Leader pledge covers just about every other so-called virtue they can think of, the one that is conspicuously missing is tolerance. In one concise document, they manage to condemn gays, single parents, single individuals, divorcees, Muslims, gays in the military, unmarried couples, women who choose to have abortions and everyone else who doesn’t fit in a Norman Rockwell painting.

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On Saturday, two days after the original pledge was released, The Family Leader quietly made changes to the wording of the document, posting an updated PDF that removed one of the most controversial statements from preamble portion.

The now missing section stated:

Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.

http://iowaindependent.com/58288/gary-johnson-labels-vander-plaats-social-pledge-as-offensive-unrepublican

Santorum and Bachmann signed the 'pledge' with that piece of crap still in it. Johnson evidently reads things put in front of him, and has some principles. Clearly, this doesn't go down well with Republicans; he's only been invited to 2 debates so far.

[spanone]

10. having a presidential debate from a church? priceless

what part of separation of church & state don't these bozos comprehend?

[jberryhill]

11. Awesome - been waiting for them to preach "values"

This one should be good.

[Old and In the Way]

12. I eagerly await Newt Gingrich's homily on the sanctity of marriage.

Rick Sanctimonious will obviously be in a lather. I love getting religious lectures from family value hypocrites.

[NNN0LHI]

14. This should be an interesting evening

[Brother Buzz]

15. Shore up the base night