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A 2012 ‘values vote’?
At the Conservative Principles Conference in Iowa last week, social issues dominated the conversation among potential Republican presidential candidates like former Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn). “We look like Camp Christian out here,” Republican activist Doug Gross said to The New York Times. “If you don’t start with values,” Newt Gingrich said to a group of pastors, “the rest of it doesn’t matter.” Bachmann also weighed in, declaring “social conservatism is fiscal conservatism.” Do terms like “values” and “social conservatism” refer to Republican opposition to abortion and same sex marriage? What will ”values” mean in 2012?
Social conservative movement goes mainstream in 2012
There is no real disconnect between the tea party and the social conservative movement.
Hypocritical values
When it comes to values, no political party or politician has the right to define them for the rest of America.
As Gandhi taught, political ‘truth’ evolves
To presume that we know everything and that the country and the world must follow us unquestioningly is the kind of arrogance that comes only from those who seek public office.
‘Values’ is code for conservatism
Even if it wins in elections, values often kept on back-burner of government.
On earth as it is in heaven
If politicians choose to hold sacred a particular list of values, my preference would be for them to start first with an examination of their own lives.
Will the GOP fall to the ‘darkness of extremism’?
When Republicans talk about values, they are sticking to their roots.
Values at ‘Camp Christian’
I don’t believe the ‘values’ crowd will expand its horizons anytime soon.
When ‘values’ hurt
“Values” has become a code word used by politicians who want to create wedges amongst the electorate.
Newt is right: values matter most
Values are big ideas which must be translated into real life.
Screaming your values is unproductive
Of course it is about values. It just isn’t about a monopoly of values.
Of course political debates center around values
After all, politics is (among other things) best thought of as “applied philosophy.” Politics is the arena in which people take their different conceptions of “the good” – what is best for them, their community, their country, the world – and try to implement real world policies to strive to achieve that “good.”
Many ways to be a Christian, and a Muslim
How then do we define Christian or Islamic or any other religious groups’ values? Very carefully!
In 2012, justice, simple justice
The meaning of American values in 2012 will be a question of justice, simple justice.
Where are the values?
It’s not very comforting to me that Republican activist Doug Gross, describing the recently convened Republican Principles Conference held in Iowa, said that “we looked like Camp Christian out there.”
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