Vin Weber served as a Republican Congressman from Minnesota from 1981 to 1993. Since retiring from Congress, he was one of Mitt Romney's senior foreign policy advisers during his 2012 presidential run and still works as a D.C.-based GOP strategist.
Weber was asked to weigh in on those findings. He said he would "resist characterizing this as evidence of a war on science, which I think is BS," and then offered up this nugget:
"I suspect this is a reflection of a trend we've seen, where the most educated people who used to be Republicans are now Democrats, and people with less educational status are now moving into the Republican Party," Weber says.
"Added to that is a realignment along religious lines, with the most religious lining up with the GOP," he said.
Pretty hard to argue with that observation.
However it is interesting to note that more and more this opinion is being offered by those who were once were considered firmly in line with Republican ideologies, such as Joe Scarborough, John Huntsman, and Steve Schmidt.
I think that every day we are seeing the signs of a dramatic and very public war erupting within the GOP that will either eventually make the party stronger, or see a third party split off and strip away the more fringe elements of the existing party.
Personally I think the latter is more likely.
Wow! That's heartening - I hope.
ReplyDeleteThat bipolar cutie Saint Ronnie brought home from the dance and swore he could control? Well, her whole damn family moved in and they’re crazier than she is. Now what are you going to do?
ReplyDeleteI have one very strong argument to make against that observation. I take extreme exception to the idea that Republicans are "the most religious". They are the most "fundamentalist" in their belief, but their actions and attitudes are decidedly un-Christian, and nobody can say that one believer (fundamentalist) is "more religious" than another (liberal Christian). Pretty much all you can say about Republicans who claim Christianity as their own is that they are wrong, loud, and obnoxious
ReplyDeleteGood point.
Delete...and do not emulate Christ nor His teachings whatsoever.
DeleteMight be wrong in my opinion, but there's a damn good reason they're acting as they are. Republicans have done nothing but obstruct and yet Presient Obama's record stands. Hillary in the wings. They've got no one who's viable enough to come close as a candidate in '16. They continue to show just how juvenile they are with no respect for those they represent whatsoever and it's all captured for '16 reminders. Out comes the tin foil hat brigade. Did we expect anthing else?
ReplyDeleteThere won't be a significant right-wing third party, because that wouldn't be in the interests of the 1%, and therefore they won't allow it.
ReplyDeleteIf this guy worked as a foreign policy advisor to Romney in 2012, then he's not too bright either. Along with Anon at 10:54 am, I don't think Republicans are at all "religious"; I think that the GOP likes to wrap itself in religiosity but that's not the same as being religious, not by a long shot.
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Just when were the Republicans the educated party? 150 years ago, when Lincoln was alive? Certainly not in my lifetime. I don't call anything Reagan did smart, nor the Bushes, and Mitt's IQ seems to have dropped since a year ago..."yeah, we have a mandate for contraception coverage in MA, but the Catholics never disagreed." Imagine that...in Catholic Massachusetts, the bishops all played nice with Romney? Why was that, Mitt? Because it's the right thing to do?
ReplyDeleteCan we please quit talking as if Christianity is the only religion out here? Vin Weber says the "most religious" have moved into the republican fold. Then there is discussion about whether they are real Christians or not. There's a lot of people out here, enough to sway an election I suspect, of people who are not Christian but nonetheless extremely religious. I am myself. Yes, I know, the Christians have the majority. That's like white republicans having the majority. Demographics change. And the fundamentalists, the last I heard, are having a hard time keeping their children in their fold.
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Did Miller have a twin brother that he was separated from at birth? http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/01/04/erick-bennett-maine-republican-guts/
ReplyDeleteGive it up Cousin Vinnie, your grand old party is just that. Emphasis on the Old. Maybe suggest to your fundie fiends they become a little more Spiritual, a lot less religious and stop thumping that fucking bible to death. Come on over to our side, we don't bite, hard.
ReplyDeleteRick Santorum went on record during his 2012 bid saying to conservatives that they will never have smart people on their side. That's the one thing on which I agree with him.
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