Spin, spin, spin baby. The fact remains that independents left the Republican party in droves. And that's not because the GOP didn't spend enough time embracing Lou Sheldon, James Dobson, and the men at the Concerned Women for America.
More from religious right leader Lou Sheldon:
...the candidates who didn't see the importance of marriage and family in 2006--like Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), Nancy Johnson (R-CT), Jim Leach (R-IA), Jeb Bradley (R-NH), and Charlie Bass (R-NH)--are all out of a job.Yeah, and Rick Santorum, George Allen, Katherine Harris, JD Hayworth, Blackwell in Ohio, Steele in Maryland and all the rest of the social conservatives just sailed to victory. Oh, not they didn't. They lost. And religious right candidate Marilyn Musgrave in Colorado nearly lost to Angie Paccione, a Democrat who openly supported gay marriage - yet her embrace of civil rights for glbt Americans didn't even scratch Paccione, in Colorado of all places. And in Virginia and Wisconsin, the anti-gay amendments actually HELPED GOP officials LOSE their elections.
So keep spinning, Lou. Because nothing would make me happier than for the GOP to embrace the religious right wingnuts even more tightly than they have to date. Go ahead and make yourselves a permanent minority. You'll have half the south, and that's it.
