My hit counter is going through the roof. You all probably want to know what I think about Stanford—or is it Sanford. As involved as I am in politics, I’ve never heard of him.
It seems he is a Republican that had an affair, and the liberals are using this to justify the stimulus package, rampant unemployment, socialized medicine, Barney Frank, hyperinflation, war in Iraq, torture, leniency on North Korea, Lewinski, late-term abortion, Sotomayor, Clintongate, the collapse of the dollar, and a nebulous position on Iran. What was his name again? Oh yeah, Sanford.
I’m thinking and writing, check back.
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Do you think this is because of the realclearpolitics link to the salon article, or just the salon article?
ReplyDeletehaha I don't think I've ever clicked on a link from a comment before, but I wanted to know in what sense you meant male paglia.
Well, Firefox is distributed with linux, which is free, which I'm totally into :)
The thing that makes liberals scream and point when Republicans have affairs (or gay bathroom sex or serial monogamy or...) is that Republicans are known for saying that affairs, homosexuality, divorce* etc. disqualify people from public life.
ReplyDeleteAs a liberal, I don't say that such things are admirable or even morally acceptable. I simply believe that I'd rather have a King David (immoral public life and darn good king) than an ineffective leader with a stellar family life. Republicans as a group would've condemned David for his affair(s) and multiple spouses.
So when a Republican falls, it's quite natural for us to point and say, "*YOU* can't even live up to it. Stop demanding it of the rest of us." And in the case of homosexuality... nobody is demanding that people turn gay or even hang out with gay people. Gays and lesbians just want to be able to get benefits like straight people and visit each other in the hospital. It doesn't seem too much to ask.
For the record, I'm a liberal with an M.Div. and a Th.M. who takes my faith seriously enough to let my politics flow from it. I've posted a number of comments to your various blogs in the last few minutes as Anonymous. I should sign them, but I'm disinclined to create an identity here. --SAM
Oh, and I asterisked divorce above because Republicans aren't nearly as anti-divorce as, say, Jesus was. --SAM
ReplyDeleteWhy do you keep bringing up Republicans? I think both parties are fooled. Their primary goals have nothing to do with what the electorate believes them to be.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous, one of them, anyway, "stop demanding it from the rest of us", you explain. The one's demanding something are the one's dying of various diseases. They want universal health care. Once you demand that, every action is open for debate. And it becomes a civil matter whether a certain television show is causing damage to the national health.
ReplyDeleteYou can call me Sam.
ReplyDeleteI bring up Republicans because I thought you were one. Perhaps you are a Libertarian, in which case I still disagree with you but can accept that you have a position with intellectual integrity (that is, a consistent position).
My point re: "stop demanding it from the rest of us" is that if you're going to be anti-homosexuality or anti-adultery (pro-family values, so to speak), then you really oughtn't be gay or adulterous. It's hypocrisy, of course. I wasn't speaking of people demanding health care, just politicians demanding a different standard for themselves than that to which they want to hold others.
Regarding health care, however... there is nothing that demonstrates monogamous GLBT individuals have any higher risks for any type of disease than anyone else.
I read the ABC article on Farrah Fawcett. It's an excellent argument for vaccinating people against HPV, since most contract it as teenagers--and we all know how well teaching abstinence works. --SAM
Since when has abstinence been taught? If you take into account the major networks and movies pushing deadly behavior so they can advertize drugs all during prime-time, there is no way 15 minutes in school a week can compete with the pervs running the media. There should be a health tax on shows promoting risky behavior.
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