Aecetia: Geez, what did I ever do to you? “You really act like a boomer”?!? Argh! It was the Volvo comment, wasn’t it? I knew it!
Yup, this has been a fun thread and there are some really sharp folks out there participating.
I think Reagan recognized the threat of the Religious Right even more than Goldwater because it had begun infiltrating the Republican Party during the late 1970s and early 1980s. By the time Dubya was in power, the Religious Right and the Republican Party had become indistinguishable from one another. I had hopes that McCain would follow through on his “crusade” to break their hold, but after he showed up at Libery University and starting kissing butt, well, that hope faded fast.
