So? What's a Republican politician with _no_ new
ideas to do? Easy! Focus on the "moral issues" (i.e., God,
guns, abortion prevention, and gays).
Rich
folks and corporate/business-types know what's going on here. So they simply tune out this "moral issues" blather
because they know it's only real purpose is to keep the rubes on board; for without the rube votes (the rubes might just
vote their wallets), the Repugs would certainly lose. You see, if the economy improves too much
between now and November, that would be a disaster for the Repugs (which is why
they've done everything they could to prevent an economic recovery on Obama's
watch -- it's why they had to keep Obama's stimulus package from being too large
and thus too effective).
In
other words, if the Repugs can just keep the rubes all riled up about all those
"slutty" single women using birth control and the "moral
decay" of the "family unit," and such, the rubes might once
again be persuaded to just vote with their emotions, on "moral issues," rather
than take the time to rationally understand how Republican (and Bluedog dem)
politicians helped break the economy in the first place: by giving kickbacks and
fat tax breaks to rich people, ending Glass-Steagall, deregulating everything, cutting
back on regulators and regulatory power, allowing banksters & Wall St.
speculators to go hog-wild, busting unions, making sure the Bush tax cuts for
the rich weren't allowed to expire, and slashing all the programs that help the
economic victims of their handiwork (i.e. the poor, including the nouveau poor
who have, by the means just outlined, recently been driven out of the middle
class).
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