Tectonic Shifts
August 23rd, 2006Ralph Reed recently lost his battle to be a Lt. Governor, and now his political organization is losing power, too. Yes, that’s right, the Christian Coalition has been losing chapters, members and money, and it’s not a surprise to me, but I’ll explain why. There’s a new Christian influence in Washington — has been since George Bush took the Presidency — and that’s the Family-groups, led by Jimmy Dobson. Additionally, there’s a shift amongst the Right from opposing Abortion ardently to pushing against homosexuality with fire. I’m not sure what the reasoning is for this, but I suspect it has to do with complacency. I think that a lot of Conservatives see the current Supreme Court’s makeup, and see a Conservative Judiciary that they won’t have to worry about in terms of abortion, so their next plan of attack is to cut off homosexual issues before they develop into mainstream accepted thoughts.
Conservative leaders are getting savvier, politicaly, shifting from opposing something that the general public supports to something that the public generally opposes. Ralph Reed is more telegenic than James Dobson, but Dobson’s a smarter man. I don’t believe that the New Right will succeed at the ballot box for long, though, and if they don’t, might I be so kind as to suggest that they follow France (typical Liberal advice, I know: “Follow France!”) and their Conservatives? Namely, that they start handing out condoms to win votes.
Even France’s Conservatives are Liberal. That country has major problems. There’s no balance! It tilts so far to the Left that I’m amazed it doesn’t sink into the Atlantic. (Nothing against Liberalism, of course, but a nation of no balance is a nation of no political merit.)