If there is one thing the Christian rightwing can take away from this debate it is that John McCain and Sarah Palin are for gay rights. There is no difference between either side's position here. This debate nailed that one down for all the nation to see. And she is supposed to be the one that gets the Christian right excited for the McCain ticket. What a lot of hypocrisy and what a sad joke!
They the religious right love to say that if you are a christan you must vote for McCain/Palin but what can they say now and who should believe the hypocrisy? With their support of gay rights one of the two major moral issue pillars for the religious right support of a republican ticket is gone. That being the case the republican ticket should no longer have integrity on other moral issues. It would be like someone coming into church claiming christianity while smoking a cigarette trying to tell the congregation how they should interpret the words of Jesus except that smoking a cigarette is nothing compared to the major violation of favoring gay rights. That just does not fly in religious right churches, so how now can McCain/Palin be trusted or worthy of hearing any longer? In the religious right's eyes they cannot and the only reason for continued support by the religious right of the republican ticket will have to be their love of money in the form of republican rightwing ideology that pushes tax cuts, meaning money coming back to themselves, the religious right, instead of to the poor or health care for others. Concealed selfishness has always been a major trait with the religious right although there are some sincere christians involved the religious right is weighted down with plenty of veiled narcissism.
The excitement then over Palin on the ticket with McCain is just spitt'in in the wind. In this mix also remember that previously John McCain had been rejected by the religious right and he himself said during his run against Bush, in order to set himself apart from Bush, that he did not consider himself a religious man so how can they say, unless it is the hidden motive of the love of tax cut money that drives them to say it, to say that a christian must vote for McCain/Palin. Promoting such an absolute choice in the case of this election is hypocrisy and if continued must be driven by rightwing political ideology.
The other issue that drives this is the hypocrisy of the abortion issue. When religious right anointed George W. Bush and the Republican congress had the chance to send a bill to congress to fully outlaw abortion they would not do it citing lack of public support for it but
when it came to dragging out the Iraq war they did not worry about public support,
when it came to trying to privatize social security they did not worry about public support,
when it came to deregulating the banking business they did not worry about public support as they tried with all their might to push those issues through congress and dozens more the public did not support but when it came to saving the innocent life of the aborted they worried about public support and declined to send up the bill even once. That says it all. The Republican party and it's leaders love to send up bills partially tinkering around with the issue but have no intention of fully banning abortion as they did nothing about fully banning abortion when presented with the opportunity of a lifetime and now with no excuse left promote the stance of leaving it up to an uninterested Supreme Court after 40 years of patiently waiting for the "conservative" president and "conservative" Republican congress.
The Republicans are however concerned about keeping the religious right in their corner as support for their money loving policies favoring the rich. In the end it is about political ideology or more to the point, tax cut money to the self and a vote for Republicans on these moral issues amounts to taking the bait and a vote wasted when the nation is faced with major crisis and catastrophe in desperate need for change.
The major point here is that these Republican candidate's position on abortion or for that matter any "conservative" social issue is without integrity and it now goes without saying on the religious rights promotion of the Republican candidates position on homosexuality as a reason to vote for them as a Christian. This, their latest embarrassement and spiritual authority lost.
There are serious issues facing this country that could change the face of the future for decades not just a few social morality issues that although imperative even so have no trustworthy political advocate. Issues of immoral pre-emptive war, disastrous economic policy, unaffordable health care, intrusive surveillence and near dictatorial executive rights not to mention...torture stare us in the face some involving the avoidable deaths of millions of Americans. You have to decide whether Bush and McCain have been on the right side of these issues or whether we need serious change from the last 8 years but then you know the answer to that. The answer is this nation is in a mess. To those who wanted to stick with those few moral issues over the many other critical issues in the last two elections, look where it got us. Will we ever figure it out? Will you brothers and sisters ever figure it out? A wrongheaded stiffnecked people in the midst of disaster is not the answer.
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