Let's take a moment to check in with that rebranding effort currently underway in the Republican party. Warm and cuddly spokeslizard Reince Priebus appeared on the Christian Broadcasting Network and held a heart-to heart with David Brody about how to appeal to all those LGBT voters who have been clambering for a reason to run on over to their party of love. In an absolutely shocking moment of tenderheartedness, he proceeds to lay out his loving plan on how to deal with icky gay people going forward.
Via Right Wing Watch:
Brody: I want to talk to you about this way forward for the GOP. When you use that word ‘intolerant,’ ‘you know we have to be more tolerant’ in what the RNC put out. Evangelicals start to grab the Excedrin bottles when they hear ‘tolerance’ because they think ‘oh no the GOP is changing and the whole gay marriage situation.’ Why don’t you address this and maybe put evangelicals at ease or can you put them at ease at all here?
Priebus: Well, one hundred percent. I don’t know if I’ve used the word ‘tolerance,’ I don’t really care for that word myself. I don’t have a problem with it, I just think it has another meaning politically that can go the other direction. I happen to believe that our principles are sound. I do believe, and I still will tell you that our party believes that marriage is between one man and one woman. Our party believes that life begins at conception. I think those are foundational issues that aren’t going anywhere but what I have said, which I don’t think should be controversial at all and I would think that Christians and pastors and everyone in between should agree that our principles have to be draped in the concepts of grace, love and respect and that’s not code language, that’s the New Testament, so I don’t think there should be any problem with that thinking within our party. That’s all I’ve said. It’s not what you say, I think, it’s sometimes like our moms used to tell us, it’s how you say it; and I think that’s really the issue and quite frankly I think some of that has been overblown. I’m happy to address it but clearly myself and our party haven’t changed on those principles.
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Priebus: Looking at the evidence, what you will see is a party that embraces life, a party that embraces marriage and a chairman that understands that there’s only one sovereign God and that we ultimately aren’t dependent on what happens in politics, that that ultimately matters in our lives is that we’re salt and light in the world and that we’re honoring God in the things that we do every day. I get that. I think our party gets that and there’s never been a movement away from that. So ‘tolerance,’ maybe some people use that word, what I would tell you, when I think about it, I think about grace, I think about love, I think about respect, and I think those are things that are very square with our beliefs as Christians.
Well-played, sir. It's worth noting that LGBT people are so bone stupid that they can be handed a turd rolled in rainbow sprinkles and not recognize the fact that it is indeed simply a turd rolled in rainbow sprinkles. I honestly don't know how I manage to walk across a room without falling over, so stupid am I.
It doesn't come as much of a shock that you don't like the word tolerance since your party has been built on a fortified foundation of rabid intolerance. It is really hard to teach old white teabaggers and their evangelical playmates new tricks. I'm not sure how well it is going to fly with that crowd to request they show grace, love and respect to a group of Americans on whom they blame everything from devastating tornadoes to the actual fall of civilization and the end of the world. Really, good luck with that.
I would think that Christians and pastors and everyone in between should agree that our principles have to be draped in the concepts of grace, love and respect and that’s not code language, that’s the New Testament.
See, there's your problem right there, Reince. You are laboring under the impression that the only people you have to appeal to are Christians and pastors. There isn't a lot of in between in between. You just keep telling yourself that as younger voters treat you like the mosquito infested swamp of narrow-mindedness that is the proud hallmark of your rancid party. It is a win-win. For us.
I suppose you can be forgiven some of your thought processes when we look at how your mother raised you. Your mom may have told you that it's not what you say, it's how you say it. My mother taught me that it is what you say as well as how you say it. That is called honesty.
Looks like you will be needing some more sprinkles.