The war for the soul of the GOP is heating up. Several days ago
Mike Huckabee warned that evangelicals will bolt the GOP if party
leaders cave on so-called 'same-sex marriage.'
Then GOP Chairman Reince Priebus, in a statement that contradicts the 2012
GOP Platform,
called grassroots Republicans "Old Testament heretics" and admonished
them to get with the times.
Now, comes the following statement from the Wednesday, March 27th edition of
Gary Bauer's End of Day Report:
Yesterday I addressed the thousands of men and women who came to
Washington, D.C., for the March for Marriage. It was a very diverse audience. I
finished my remarks by telling them, "I'm a Republican -- many of you I'm sure
are Democrats -- I'm a Republican. Let me say to my party: If you bail out on
this issue, I will leave the party and I will take as many people with me as I
possibly can."
For men and women of faith -- Democrats, Republicans and Independents -- this is
a time of choosing. What are our most important values? Who will defend them?
Who will represent us? Please read the item below and let me know what you
think.
As loyal readers of this daily report know, I have strenuously argued against
third parties and dividing the conservative vote. As the Ross Perot/Reform Party
experience of the 1990s demonstrated, splitting the conservative vote simply
guarantees the election of liberal Democrats.
But the statements and actions of some Republican elites in recent days makes me
wonder whether we are at the point where all options are on the table. If the
party in which values voters have made their home is not willing to fight for
our values, then what is the point of us fighting for that party?
The GOP is a coalition, a political marriage of economic conservatives, defense
conservatives and social conservatives. But coalitions only work when each
member knows that it is being taken seriously and that its cause is advancing.
Now some party elites are suggesting that we should be "welcoming and inclusive"
to those who disagree with us on values issues. Why? Should the GOP welcome tax
hikers and big government proponents too? Or is it just life and marriage that
are to be sacrificed?
I am acutely aware of our debt crisis and the growth of big government and what
they will do to America. But if we continue to lose on values -- religious
liberty, the sanctity of life, what children are taught about right and wrong,
the meaning of marriage -- it won't matter if we balance our fiscal budget. Our
moral/virtue deficit will kill the American dream.
In fact, if we lose these issues we won't balance the budget. A huge part of our
fiscal crisis is the result of the breakdown of the family and the demand for
more government programs and spending to clean up the resulting damage.
We will have lost the America our Founding Fathers created in 1776. They
believed that our rights came from God, not government. They believed that only
a moral, virtuous people could remain free. They believed in ordered liberty
under God.
Anyone who thinks we need a "values truce," or suggests we should toss aside
life, liberty and marriage in order to deal with the "important" stuff, is
missing the crisis that is plaguing America's urban centers and spreading
rapidly -- the breakdown of the family. Nearly half of all children today are
born to unwed mothers.
There is a moral dimension to marriage, and to suggest otherwise is simply
absurd. But I would ask my libertarian friends this question: If the country
can't get marriage right, why would such a country ever get the moral dimension
of imposing debt on the next generation? If we can't comprehend the sanctity of
life, why should we understand the virtue of balanced budgets?
For too many years the Republican Party has treated values issues as the caboose
on the train and treated values voters as though they belonged on the back of
the bus. My sense is that an increasing number of people are unwilling to give
up their seats to party elites who demand they move. If they are pushed enough,
they may abandon the GOP completely and look for another vehicle to advance
their values.
Here's the bottom line as I see it: We've got one more round of congressional
elections in 2014 and one more presidential battle in 2016. If we cannot come up
with candidates for the House and the Senate who can make the case for family
values and the sanctity of life, I believe we will have lost the country.
My friends, I am concerned, but I want you to know that I am not giving up. I
have made a springtime resolution -- I am going to devote a significant amount
of time each day to telling Republican leaders that they are on the verge of
presiding over the dissolution of the Republican Party. If they are under the
impression that they can replace faith-based values voters with enough
feminists, gay rights activists or libertarians, then they must be smoking some
of that medical marijuana.
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