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Offline CaseAgainstFaith

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The Republicans’ Lost Privacy
« on: January 10, 2012, 03:22:57 pm »
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Since Ronald Reagan, Republican Presidents (and Presidential nominees) have been committed to overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s abortion-rights landmark from 1973. But as the debates last weekend in New Hampshire suggested, the G.O.P. appears to have taken a more extreme step in terms of rolling back the Constitutional right to privacy.

Since the first time Mitt Romney ran for President, four years ago, he’s been on record reversing his previous support for abortion rights. However, when pressed by George Stephanopoulos in the debate Saturday night, Romney went beyond mere opposition to Roe. He said he thought Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 case that first made explicit the right to privacy, was also wrong. “I don’t believe they decided that correctly,” Romney said. In this, the front-runner was eagerly seconded by Rick Santorum, who said the Justices “created through a penumbra of rights a new right to privacy that was not in the Constitution.”

And that is what makes Romney and Santorum’s criticism of Griswold so troubling. Over the years the modern Republican Party has reflected both libertarian and authoritarian tendencies. Both survive, in a way. When it comes to taxes and regulation, the libertarian side of the party is ascendant. Even the rhetoric of compassionate conservatism has faded from view. But with regard to civil liberties, the G.O.P. has embraced state power with a vengeance. Whether it’s the rights of wartime detainees, or abortion rights, or the rights of gay people to marry (or to be free from discrimination), contemporary Republican leaders reflect clear moral disapproval. (Even Ron Paul, who is often described as a libertarian, is a fierce opponent of a woman’s right to choose abortion. And Rick Perry recently announced that he’s against a right to abortion even in cases of rape or incest.) Privacy is often described as “the right to be left alone,” but that’s not a value that seems terribly important in the G.O.P. right now.

source - http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/01/the-republicans-lost-privacy.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true

Well that column sent a chill up my spine.  I hope these idiots never get elected into office.
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Re: The Republicans’ Lost Privacy
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2012, 04:15:43 pm »
Just think: Romney is the "sanest" man of this lot, and he said this.

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Re: The Republicans’ Lost Privacy
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2012, 06:07:40 pm »
Sanest is Huntsman, actually.
That said, I've stopped trying to anticipate what people around here want a while ago, I've found it makes things smoother.
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Re: The Republicans’ Lost Privacy
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2012, 06:10:23 pm »
And that's just terrible.
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Re: The Republicans’ Lost Privacy
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2012, 06:10:57 pm »
Yes, but he's not a candidate. Among that crowd, Romney is pretty much the least bad.
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Re: The Republicans’ Lost Privacy
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2012, 06:33:02 pm »
He's sane, he's just saying this to get elected. And considering what the others have been saying, it's not like he got much to lose.
I'd be more sympathetic if people here didn't act like they knew what they were saying when they were saying something very much wrong.

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Re: The Republicans’ Lost Privacy
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2012, 06:39:26 pm »
I think we should let the Republicans win and have their way. That way, when the population realizes it has (and/or) gets sick of, an oppressive authoritorian government, the revolt will be a glorious and the revolution swift. After that the modern Republicans are rejected completely as a valid political party and are only known from then on in history books as the turd smear on the American dream that they are.

/sarcasm. sort of
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Re: The Republicans’ Lost Privacy
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2012, 06:46:48 pm »
I think we should let the Republicans win and have their way. That way, when the population realizes it has (and/or) gets sick of, an oppressive authoritorian government, the revolt will be a glorious and the revolution swift. After that the modern Republicans are rejected completely as a valid political party and are only known from then on in history books as the turd smear on the American dream that they are.

/sarcasm. sort of

Never happen, the people that are sick and tired are already protesting and such. The people that'd vote for these fools would never go against their party because any fool that would vote for these nuts is already a dedicated Republican loon
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Re: The Republicans’ Lost Privacy
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2012, 08:30:05 pm »
Sanest is Huntsman, actually.

And he's anti-abortion, so what does that tell you?

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Re: The Republicans’ Lost Privacy
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2012, 02:40:44 am »
As I was reading this, I realized that this is not news at all.
For years we have known that republicans support strongly contradicting ideals and the only thing they actually stand fast on is tax cuts for the rich and large corporations. They don't ever even implement any of their authoritarian policies because doing so removes a campaign card from their list of things they can be 'for' come the next election. Sadly the democrats are the same except their campaign inst so much hypocritical but spineless.