Sentences with phrase «of social conservative»

No way does that kind of social conservative nonsense fly with this court.

Following outcry from gay and lesbian and women's groups — and harsh criticism from her former colleagues in the City Council — Public Advocate Letitia James downplayed her endorsement of social conservative Councilman Fernando Cabrera in his failed bid for a State Senate seat.

The dispute put Quinn in the crosshairs of social conservative voters who tend to support the use of government to reinforce traditional social relations, according to a Pew research report.

But if we expect a new birth of social conservative boldness in the GOP in the wake of this election, we will be disappointed.

Both of the major camps of social conservative reaction to the challenges of the last few years are right in part: We have always had to struggle against the inclination of our liberal society to furiously pound itself into what Edmund Burke called «the dust and powder of individuality,» and to resist its elevation of choice above commitment.

Mr. Byfield has been campaigning for more than a year and could make gains if he is able to tap into the base of social conservative voters in this constituency.

Rick Santorum can play to the high - mindedness of the social conservative agenda because in Iowa those voters have two loaves of bread under each arm.

But the fiscal conservatives and the strong foreign - policy advocates don't have that power either, and without at least a good percentage of social conservatives to form the third leg of the Reagan coalition, no candidate has much chance of winning the Republican nomination.

That said, during this election cycle, much has been written about the waning influence of social conservatives in the political sphere.

At the least, it offers up a few more questions for proponents of gay marriage and explains the cautiousness of social conservatives to give weigh to libertarian ideals.

99 % of social conservatives will hold their breaths and vote for the psuedo - conservative (as long as it gets him elected) flip - flopping Mormon since he is white and Republican (at least in name).

And it is foolish to drive them into the arms of the political left when their piety and moral convictions make them natural allies of social conservatives.

The moves may be the first indications of social conservatives coalescing around Romney after their first choice, Rick Santorum, dropped out of the race.

A lot of social conservatives will think «There's no one I like, but McCain is better than Giuliani or Romney, so I'll take the best I can get.»

Far from trumpeting their involvement, gay rights groups have been largely silent about their role in Senate campaigns for fear of raising the ire of social conservatives.

Republican party is supposedly the party of social conservatives and «family values.»

Republican strategists say that 2004's gay marriage referenda in swing states ensured George W Bush retained the presidency because of a surge of social conservatives going to the polls.

The case drew even more attention because of the role of history and historians in the litigation: elements of the pro-free trade argument entailed an originalist analysis, a technique which is often a tool of social conservatives seeking to squash rights for women, LGBT people, and others, and very uncommon in Canadian constitutional cases.

Not exact matches

The social media giant is coming off a rough weekend, shedding nearly 7 percent Monday after reports of a massive mishandling of data by conservative research firm Cambridge Analytica.

Fox News took it upon itself to find outraged conservatives, ready to batter down the doors of Coke's headquarters, ready to rail at yet another tear in the nation's social fabric.

He's very, very progressive in a lot of respects on social issues and he's somewhat conservative on fiscal issues.»

With the retirement of his father Ron Paul, Rand Paul has taken over the mantle of the GOP's libertarian wing, fusing it with his growing coalition of Tea Partiers and social conservatives.

«Rand is one of the only people who can speak to libertarians, social conservatives, as well as your average mainstream Republican voter.»

A staunch social and fiscal conservative, Broun is a member of both the Republican Study Committee and the Tea Party Caucus.

«Canadians might not like them as politicians — they may not vote for them because they're too conservative on social issues — but they're not the kind of governors that make trouble for Canada.»

For eight years conservative Republicans, with business» backing, have gleefully dismantled four decades of social compact.

«Elimination of caucuses and conventions would mean nuclear war with the grassroots, social conservatives, the Ron Paul movement and Tea Party Republicans,» said John Tate, a senior Paul advisor who now runs the Campaign For Liberty, a libertarian grassroots lobbying group.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

In mid-December, a group of national social - conservative leaders gathered at a hotel in Tyson's Corner, Virginia, to take a straw poll of presidential preferences.

The new party has yet to be named, but even so, a recent Gallup poll reported Stronach had 8 % of voter support, compared to 28 % for the governing Social Democrats (SPO), 21 % for its conservative coalition partner the People's Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (FPO).

In 2005, he used the first policy convention of the then - new Conservative Party to take potentially divisive social - conservative issues like abortion off the parConservative Party to take potentially divisive social - conservative issues like abortion off the parconservative issues like abortion off the party's agenda.

They bash social conservatives as ineffective sellouts to the GOP establishment, and rail against neo-conservative hawks for their embrace of Israel.

And while the New Democrats are rightly celebrating the historic results that led to their first - ever chance at being official opposition and the hope that a social democratic government is within reach, the reality is that Canada will suffer four years of Conservative rule — at a minimum.

If Kenney doesn't follow the lead of Brown, his fellow social conservative caucus colleague, it likely signals one of two things: he does want the support of voters for whom parental rights regarding their pre-adolescents and teens are a big issue; or that he's calculated that a softening of his image would show weakness and isn't worth it, because his party has such a comfortable edge over Notley that he can afford to lose voters wary of anything resembling social conservatism.

Having won the leadership with the help of social and religious conservatives, how much does he have to curry favour with a voter segment with no other party to vote for?

In the speech that urged the Alliance to embrace social conservatives, Harper also said that left - wing Canadians stand for «radical, responsibility - free individualism» and «tribalism in the form of group rights.»

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NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

It is too early to say whether the election will result in the continuation of the grand coalition between the conservatives and the social democrats, a revival of the conservative - liberal coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP), or even a three - way coalition between the conservatives, the FDP, and the Green Party.

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The two main contenders of the election are two centrists from the dominant center - right and center - left parties: conservative incumbent Angela Merkel and social democrat Martin Schulz.

«Social media censorship and online restriction of conservatives and their organizations have reached a crisis level,» the statement read.

The de facto deputy prime minister is Jason Kenney, one of Ottawa's most ardent social conservatives.

Meanwhile, Jean has long tried with little luck to shake off the social - conservative fringe of the Wildrose, the same ones that so bedevilled his predecessor Danielle Smith that she ultimately crossed over to the Tories.

Last month, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee invited Hardaway and Richardson to speak at a hearing on «Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms» as poster children for Facebook's bias against conservatives.

And despite the party's sometimes uneasy coalition of libertarian and social conservatives, it is reasonable to believe Ms. Smith would still receive a strong endorsement from party members in a leadership review (she received 90 % approval in a 2013 review).

«The Wildrose was not founded on political principles, like the fiscal conservatism of the Progressive Conservatives, or the social democracy of the New Democrats — but rather it was created, out of nothing, for the sole purpose of exerting political pressure on the PC government.»