the whole country. but what they ve got is a symbolic culture war agenda targeting poor defenseless d.c. as a sort of showcase for this year s version of isn t murphy brown awful for being a single mom. for this year s version of aids is god s punishment. for this year s version of hate thy neighbor, circa rnc 1992. what s being told to the country at large about republican politics now, by the beltway media and by republicans themselves, is that the culture wars are over and now republicans are all about the economy. when they talk to their own conservative audiences, though, and when they act, it is clear that the culture war is alive and well. i ll give you one last example. in march 2009 rnc chairman michael steele told gq magazine this on the issue of abortion. he said, you can choose life or you can choose abortion. i think that s an individual choice. now, if the culture wars are over, then expressing a rather libertarian down the middle view about abortion rights like tha
targeting poor defenseless d.c. as a sort of showcase for this year s version of isn t murphy brown awful for being a single mom. for this year s version of aids is god s punishment. for this year s version of hate thy neighbor, circa rnc 1992. what s being told to the country at large about republican politics now, by the beltway media and by republicans themselves, is that the culture wars are over and now republicans are all about the economy. when they talk to their own conservative audiences, though, and when they act, it is clear that the culture war is alive and well. i ll give you one last example. in march 2009 rnc chairman michael steele told gq magazine this on the issue of abortion. he said, you can choose life or you can choose abortion. i think that s an individual choice. now, if the culture wars are over, then expressing a rather libertarian down the middle view about abortion rights like that, a view that s pretty much in keeping with where the american
but what they ve got is a symbolic culture war agenda targeting poor defenseless d.c. as a sort of showcase for this year s version of isn t murphy brown awful for being a single mom. for this year s version of aids is god s punishment. for this year s version of hate thy neighbor, circa rnc 1992. what s being told to the country at large about republican politics now, by the beltway media and by republicans themselves, is that the culture wars are over and now republicans are all about the economy. when they talk to their own conservative audiences, though, and when they act, it is clear that the culture war is alive and well. i ll give you one last example. in march 2009 rnc chairman michael steele told gq magazine this on the issue of abortion. he said, you can choose life or you can choose abortion. i think that s an individual choice. now, if the culture wars are over, then expressing a rather libertarian down the middle view about abortion rights like that, a view that s pr