To Ted Cruz And The Religious Right: The Gay Marriage War is Over – And You Lost
"Here’s the problem with shacking up with the far right – once you get tangled up with them, there’s really no way back to the political center. Sure, if you’re representing a red state like Texas and you have no aspirations to the White House, you can pretty much count on them to keep you in office – so long as you keep raging against the same things they hate like Ted Cruz is doing here. Reversing Roe vs. Wade, forcing Christianity into government and all of these positions are a platform that conservative candidates have to embrace in states like Texas, Louisiana, Alabama or Mississippi. You might even win a few early Republican presidential primaries as Rick Santorum did in 2012, but like Mitt Romney found out that year, you can’t pander to the far right in the primaries and successfully move back to the center for the general election. While George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan did flirt with the religious right and tossed them a bone now and then, both would be considered a RINO in today’s Tea Party controlled Republican Party – and neither could win the Republican presidential primaries now. If anything, this refusal by the religious right to accept reality and keep demanding their politicians do the same is actually a blessing to the rest of us. As the country keeps moving forward, their refusal to join the 21st century means that we may not see another Republican president any time soon"
