The Fault Line
2012-03-16 - by
Since before the Iowa Caucus the pundits have been saying what Republican voters care about most is electing the strongest candidate to beat Obama, or electing the candidate who’d fight hardest to cut spending. Almost everyone’s been opining ‘The election’s about who can beat Obama’ or ‘The election’s about spending,’ but it turns out that’s not quite so.
Instead the Republican Primary has turned out to be a cultural war with the ‘Establishment Politicians’ (Romney) on one side and the ‘Cultural Conservative Christians’ (Santorum) on the other.
The fault line running through the Mississippi and Alabama Primaries isn’t beating Obama or spending or even ideology it’s ‘Cultural Conservative Christians’ versus ‘Republican Establishment Politicians’ – and that wave is roaring straight toward North Carolina and hardly anything or anyone in a Republican Primary will be left untouched.
The Fault Line
2012-03-16/
Since before the Iowa Caucus the pundits have been saying what Republican voters care about most is electing the strongest candidate to beat Obama, or electing the candidate who’d fight hardest to cut spending. Almost everyone’s been opining ‘The election’s about who can beat Obama’ or ‘The election’s about spending,’ but it turns out that’s not quite so.
Instead the Republican Primary has turned out to be a cultural war with the ‘Establishment Politicians’ (Romney) on one side and the ‘Cultural Conservative Christians’ (Santorum) on the other.
The fault line running through the Mississippi and Alabama Primaries isn’t beating Obama or spending or even ideology it’s ‘Cultural Conservative Christians’ versus ‘Republican Establishment Politicians’ – and that wave is roaring straight toward North Carolina and hardly anything or anyone in a Republican Primary will be left untouched.