Gotta love the GOP’s continuing campaign to appeal to its shrinking base while turning off the majority of the voters nationally.
The anti-gay, anti-marriage equality star of Duck Dynasty, Phil Robertson, was the invited speaker at the Republican Leadership Conference. His advice to the GOP:
“You want to turn the Republican party around, get godly,” Robertson told the Republican Leadership Conference on Thursday, according to coverage from The Times-Picayune
On the state of the nation, Robertson called the White House “evil and wicked” and “downright embarrassing.”
As for the next round of political leaders, Robertson offered his biggest qualification to turn the nation onto the right track.
“You can’t be right for America if you’re wrong with God,” he said
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/duck-dynasty-phil-robertson-republican-leadership-conference-rlc-gop-advice-107243.html?hp=l2
Hey Charlie Baker how does Phil play in Swampscott (never mind the rest of the state)?
I give it less than an hour.
They aren’t “godly” enough, though God seems front and center for many of them?
Then again, if they were to actually open a Bible and read either the OT prophets rail against social injustice or Gospel admonitions about treating the least among us, maybe we would be in better shape.
It’s as if these guys are all ventriloquists and get God to say whatever they want him to say.
Currently they’ve got their dummy God confirming all their prejudices for them.
Very convenient.
It’s what they do with Ronald Reagan as well.
I don’t see how it hurts him. He’s already distanced himself from the national GOP on social issues.
It’s unlikely, for example, that low information voters know about the Duck Dynasty guy’s visit to the Leadership Conference, or what the Leadership Conference is, or how that might be outrageous.
Your more engaged moderate is likely not just to give Mr Baker a break but to want to give him a break. Engaged moderates hope for some kind of party balance in Beacon Hill government.
Your not-so-firebreathing Republican is going to think of Mr Baker as an exemplar of the reasonable wing of her of his party, all the more worthy of support because of the risk posed by fanatics.