50PoundHead
Hessmania Forever
VA is changing for the better in my opinion. There is more tolerance and more open minded folks. Its more of a live and let live thing. The Repubs doomed their party the minute that they tied their wagon to the religious zelots like Jerry Falwell and such. Its funny that Barry Goldwater predicted this very outcome when the preachers and politics got in cahoots in the '80s. They have absolutely made themselves into this mess and its only going to get worse for them because the next generation will be even more open to the democratic philosophy than the majority is now. We are getting ready to elect our 3rd Democrat in the last 24 years with the stolen 2000 election and the weak candidate that was Kerry in 2004 that should jolt the right into two realizations. First never sign stupid pledges and if a candidate refuses vetting they need to run. Second, this is not a conservative country anymore and the sooner they figure that out the better they will be. They can take their time as far as I am concerned.
D.G. Hart is a conservative scholar who teaches history at Hillsdale College in Michigan and he wrote a marvelous book about how the mix of religion and politics has been trouble for conservatives because the religious push of what is now viewed as modern conservatism often clashes with the goals of classic conservatism.
Here's a link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/Billy-Graham...UTF8&qid=1476539936&sr=8-2&keywords=d.g.+hart
