Can We Stop Pretending?

Can We Stop Pretending?

At this point, it doesn't look good for McCain--but this isn't the landslide that the mainstream media pretended that Obama was going to enjoy. McCain might still win this, but it looks most unlikely.

What we need to stop pretending about: there are a lot of Republicans who really, really wanted to believe that the Religious Right is irrelevant to the modern Republican Party--indeed, even something of a handicap. So what happened? McCain went out of his way to insult and offend the Religious Right throughout the primaries. Until he picked Sarah Palin, he had simply no chance at all of winning this election. As it happened, Palin seems to have taken McCain within striking distance of the White House--but it wasn't quite enough, and it was a bit too late.

The Republican Party needs the Religious Right to win elections. Stop kidding yourself. Sure, there are gay conservatives out there, and I wouldn't go out of our way to insult them. But even if the Republican Party became so gay-friendly that every gay person in America started voting Republican (which is very, very unlikely), they would still be a fraction of the number of Religious Right voters.