While, of course, this isn’t 100% true, just look at these issues and the smart Republican can deduce that hiding one’s conservatism isn’t a sound political decisions.
Florida, Arizona, and California pass meausres to ban gay marriage. This isn’t a reaction against gays, it is a reaction against activist courts shoving a less than desirable lifestyle down our throats. Nobody cares that people are gay. They care that they are forced to give governmental approval to a lifestyle that generates no appreciable benefit to society.
The stories are here and here.
Additionally, California, a blue state, also rejected the state requiring renewable energy. To me, it is a rejection of the state getting involved in the free enterprise system.
Proposition 7 would force California’s electrical utilities to get 50 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2025, a big jump from the state’s current goal of 20 percent by the end of 2010. And Prop. 10 would offer rebates for cars and trucks that burn natural gas or alternative fuels, with the money coming from $5 billion in state bonds.
Both were losing this morning.
“People do want more clean, renewable power in California,” said Jim Metropulos, senior advocate for the Sierra Club, one of several environmental groups that opposed Prop. 7. “I think people in California were able to see that Prop. 7, the way it was written, was not going to work.” Link
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