Contrary to the new Washington Post writer on the “conservative beat,” I am confident that I will continue to be proud of my involvement in the movement for natural marriage. Oh, you hadn’t heard about this? It seems that the Washington Post chose one David Weigel to be their correspondent to cover the conservative movement. He tweeted this statement.
“I can empathize with everyone I cover except for the anti-gay marriage bigots. In 20 years no one will admit they were part of that.”
Well, Dave, let me explain it to you.
Same sex marriage will undermine these principles: Read more…
David Boaz at Cato and Ramesh Ponnuru at NRO are going back and forth on whether social conservatives or fiscal conservatives are more significant to the general conservative coalition and Republican Party. (I guess that is the sub-text.) I have a couple of things to add:
1. Social conservatives in Congress tend to be more reliable voters for fiscal conservative issues than the reverse.
2. I personally believe there is no conflict between social conservatism and fiscal conservatism, as I have argued many times, most recently in the Heritage volume Indivisible.
3. If you want to see the future of the conservative coalition, go look at the photos from the Tea Party in San Diego and the photos from the Walk for Life in San Francisco. Nothing against the Tea Party people, of course, but the average age of the Tea Party people was probably 45 at least.
The average age of the (40,000) Walkers for Life in San Francisco was closer to 30. Look at our albums, here, and here, and the official Walk for Life page.
If you include the Babies in Strollers for Life, the average age probably drops by a couple of years! I’m betting there’s a lot of Life in the social side of the conservative coalition!
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