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What Went Wrong?
The New Republic Online ^
| 11.04.04
| Peter Beinart
Posted on 11/04/2004 4:39:10 PM PST by thegreatbeast
The other side may be euphoric, but the intensity of their happiness can't match the intensity of our despair. Honest conservatives, even those who admire President Bush, know he didn't earn a second term. They know he staked his presidency on a catastrophe, and that, by all rights, Iraq should be his political epitaph. Their victory, while sweet, can't be fully enjoyed because it isn't fully deserved.
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But cultural sensitivity is one thing; principle is another. In their attempts to win rural voters, Democrats have already essentially abandoned gun control. That doesn't keep me up at night. But gay marriage is different. The fact that it is widely unpopular cannot obscure the fact that it is morally momentous and morally right...
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Gay marriage is morally right? Morally right? It just goes to show that the are at least a generation away from figuring out what is happening.
Unbelievable.
To: thegreatbeast
"Honest conservatives, even those who admire President Bush, know he didn't earn a second term."
The clown has no clue what a conservative is.
To: thegreatbeast
What went wrong? Coors and Keyes lost. That's about it.
To: thegreatbeast
"The other side may be euphoric, but the intensity of their happiness can't match the intensity of our despair."
Wanna bet?
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posted on
11/04/2004 4:40:26 PM PST
by
Max Combined
(I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine...)
To: Max Combined
Take your marxist godless tripe and shove it hippie! That's what I say to the traitors at the New Republic.
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posted on
11/04/2004 4:41:47 PM PST
by
glennherman
(a gun in every home, gays back in the closet, Islam crushed, commies jailed, etc., ad infinitum)
To: thegreatbeast
AFIAC, Gays can do whatever they want. And they should have the same protections/rights as married couples.
Just don't demand we sanctify it by calling it marriage.
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posted on
11/04/2004 4:42:01 PM PST
by
Fenris6
(3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
To: thegreatbeast
They think ABORTION is morally right. The highest sacrament they recognize. Why wouldn't they think gay marriage is "morally right"?
The question is what do they consider "morally wrong"?
To: CWOJackson
Earn a second term> He most certainly did. What did Kerry earn? Ever?
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posted on
11/04/2004 4:42:29 PM PST
by
expatpat
To: thegreatbeast
Let's not give them any clues.
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posted on
11/04/2004 4:42:49 PM PST
by
Ed_in_NJ
(I'm in old skivvies and New Jersey, and I approved this message.)
To: bushisdamanin04
and Coors lost because of a publicized canadian gay fest hosted by Coors Brewing Company Inc.
Oh, and the lesbians on the women's Silver Bullet baseball team...
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posted on
11/04/2004 4:42:52 PM PST
by
donmeaker
(Why did the Romans cross the road? To keep the slaves from revolting again.)
To: thegreatbeast
Their victory, while sweet, can't be fully enjoyed because it isn't fully deserved. They. Still. Just. Don't. GET. It. :)
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posted on
11/04/2004 4:42:54 PM PST
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
(I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
To: thegreatbeast
"Gay marriage is morally right?"
Have them name be a single culture in the last 100,000 that had men marrying men and women marrying women. What ever the heck the gays are doing, it does not merit being called marriage and even if it is called marriage, it still is not marriage.
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posted on
11/04/2004 4:43:07 PM PST
by
Max Combined
(I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine...)
To: thegreatbeast
peter beinart is a little pissant that needs another smackdown like the whoopass that Ann Coulter put on his smarmy butt at amherst college shown on C-Span a few weeks ago.
To: glennherman
With thinking like this we will gain 10 seats in the House and be at 65 in the Senate come 2006. Keep it up lefties.
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posted on
11/04/2004 4:44:06 PM PST
by
Wooly
To: John Thornton
The question is what do they consider "morally wrong"?
Apparently, taking away the right of 14 year old girls to get taxpayer-funded abortions.
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posted on
11/04/2004 4:44:17 PM PST
by
A Balrog of Morgoth
(With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the Rats in terror before me.)
To: bushisdamanin04
What went wrong? Coors and Keyes lost. That's about it.
I had a small headache as well.
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posted on
11/04/2004 4:44:44 PM PST
by
msjhall
To: thegreatbeast
Here's the deal about gay anything. The libs are in panic mode. A friend of mine has a sister who is gay and works for George Soros. He loves her. I like her a lot but hey, no one is going to take away her life, liberty, etc. But it is a huge step to anoint her joining with another woman as a marriage. I saw a video clip last night on the news of two jewish men, under the canopy, stomping on the wine glass. I'm not Jewish but I know that the symbology there is the breaking of the hymen, the acceptance from the community, and the procreation of children. Two men doing that is just too bizarre.
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posted on
11/04/2004 4:44:47 PM PST
by
Mercat
To: John Thornton
The question is what do they consider "morally wrong"? Being too Christian. Saying no to their world view.
To: John Thornton
The question is what do they consider "morally wrong"? Prayer . . . and the various habits and behaviors which often accompany it.
To: thegreatbeast
< Their victory, while sweet, can't be fully enjoyed because it isn't fully deserved. >
Dang. I'm doing an awful lot of enjoying for someone who can't.
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posted on
11/04/2004 4:45:01 PM PST
by
GOP_Proud
(Can I git me some morals here?)
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