{"id":32495,"date":"2013-02-10T23:33:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T06:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/10\/colorado-gop-struggles-with-being-kinda-sorta-two-parties.html"},"modified":"2013-02-10T23:33:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T06:33:01","slug":"colorado-gop-struggles-with-being-kinda-sorta-two-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/10\/colorado-gop-struggles-with-being-kinda-sorta-two-parties.html","title":{"rendered":"Colorado GOP struggles with being (kinda-sorta) two parties"},"content":{"rendered":"

You've got the business \/ budget \/ taxation conservatives who want to pass bills to grow the economy and cut taxes and make it easier for businesses to do whatever they want.<\/p>\n

And you've got the evangelical \/ Bible-thumping \/ social conservatives who want to teach creationism in school, ban abortions, and keep those gays from getting so uppity.<\/p>\n

Of course, in some people those are the same thing. But for a lot of folks in the former camp, the continuing electorate-scaring antics of the latter half are a cause for concern. \u00a0Well, they're a cause for concern for a lot of folks, self included, but for the GOPers, they're a cause for concern because they brand the party, rightly or wrongly, as being … well …\u00a0evangelical \/ Bible-thumping \/ social conservatives who aren't likely to win elections outside of select districts.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter their trouncing at the polls in November, several Colorado Republicans said the party needed to take a hard look at itself.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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You've got the business \/ budget \/ taxation conservatives who want to pass bills to grow the economy and cut taxes and make it easier for businesses to do whatever they want. And you've got the evangelical \/ Bible-thumping \/ social conservatives who want to teach creationism in school, ban abortions, and keep those gays … Continue reading “Colorado GOP struggles with being (kinda-sorta) two parties”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40848,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/22\/bible-thumping-divorce-rates.html","url_meta":{"origin":32495,"position":0},"title":"Bible-thumping divorce rates","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 22-Jan-14 8:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"It appears that areas with more conservative Protestantism (defined as Biblical literalism) have to higher divorce rates, not lower as one might expect (or as religious conservatives \u00a0might expect).The issue is not with the religious teaching about divorce per se, but apparently other things being pushed by that cultural influence,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25222,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/jeffersons-bible-and-david-barton.html","url_meta":{"origin":32495,"position":1},"title":"Jefferson's Bible and David Barton","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Jan-12 2:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"David Barton, pseudo-historian (and dolt), will soon be publishing The Jefferson Lies, wherein he tries to demonstrate that Thomas Jefferson was just as much of an evangelical, miracle-believing, Jesus-praising, conservative Christian as ... well, Dave Barton claims to be. 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