{"id":193,"date":"2008-11-28T10:31:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T18:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-12-05T17:15:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T01:15:35","slug":"193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/193\/","title":{"rendered":"Oogedy-Boogedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ron Guhname, “The Inductivist<\/a>,” is scathing about Kathleen Parker’s now-famous \u00a0“oogedy-boogedy<\/a>” column.<\/p>\n

New York City Republicans should become the center of the party. That there are six of them and 100 million born-agains isn’t the point; the NYC-ers are cooler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I like Ron’s style, and I thought Kathleen’s column showed the ugly face of metroconservatism<\/a>.\u00a0 She was right to this degree, though:\u00a0 the extremes of religious enthusiasm repel a lot of people who favor general conservative principles.\u00a0 I meet those people all the time.\u00a0 They generally end up with a grudging vote for the GOP, if they bother to turn out (and there isn’t a Libertarian on the ticket), and Ron is right that their numbers are not currently convincing enough for GOP strategists to start saying to candidates:\u00a0 “Tone down the God stuff, for God…, er, I mean, for goodness’ sake.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u00a0might change in a few election cycles,\u00a0though; as, of course,\u00a0might the preferences of evangelicals, who don’t vote Republican because they want small government and fiscal restraint, but from hostility to the greater social liberalism of the Democrats.\u00a0 (I probably\u00a0should have said\u00a0“white<\/em> evangelicals” there.)\u00a0\u00a0 As Jonah Goldberg says: “The Religious Right will stop being Right before they stop being Religious.”\u00a0 So far as conservatives are concerned, evangelicals are fair-weather friends.<\/p>\n

It’s a tough circle to square.\u00a0 The GOP alliance of irreligious conservatives\u00a0with religious haters of social liberalism\u00a0may not be stable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In any case,\u00a0we on the secular Right have to understand, as Kathleen plainly doesn’t, how marginal we are in the big antler-clashings of national politics.\u00a0 Currently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ron Guhname, “The Inductivist,” is scathing about Kathleen Parker’s now-famous \u00a0“oogedy-boogedy” column. New York City Republicans should become the center of the party. That there are six of them and 100 million born-agains isn’t the point; the NYC-ers are cooler. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[40,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}