If the Republicans -- not to mention their bedrock supporters, such as evangelical Christians, neoconservatives and others -- do not grasp the Obama moment, and then rise to the occasion, when it comes to understanding the significance of having the first black American to become an authentic presidential aspirant, they will have doomed themselves to political obscurity and moral opprobrium forever.
The Republican Party would not be where it is today or have dominated American politics for the last 30 years, if it had not been for my late evangelical leader father Francis Schaeffer. Dad more or less invented the Protestant pro-life movement by giving it its intellectual basis; before that, evangelical Protestants mostly stayed out of politics. Along with Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Dr. Dobson and the other handful of "founding fathers" of the religious right (including to a lesser extent me before I dropped out of the movement), back in the 70s and 80s we empowered and energized a big chunk of today's Republican base.
So what I have to say here about Senator Obama to my old Republican friends comes from an inside perspective. It's this: beware how you deal with the Obama moment. What you do now is going to define you far more than you'll define Obama. He is about to become a major part of American history. You are about to be written off forever ... if you get this wrong.
Yes folks, we Republicans will be written off forever if we don't know how to "deal with the Obama moment", whatever the FUCK that means.
Apparently, if we don't understand the significance of having a black man running for President, the rest of the liberals will be willing to write us off.
Let me explain something. It doesn't MATTER that Obama is black. Everyone keeps trying to shove the "whole significance" of him being black down everyone's throat, but then when race is brought up, everyone screams "racist"!
How about we stick to issues instead of the color of his skin? I guess if we don't show proper respect or some other kind of bullshit to the fact Obama's not white, then we'll be "written off forever".
It's all a bunch of "doom and gloom" bullshit that people bring up every election. Remember how everyone said that if Bush was elected in 2004 that they'd move out of the country? They didn't. You know why? Because they were full of shit, just like this guy is.
Travis
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