Posted on 01/04/2011 10:41:14 AM PST by pissant
Its been a tough couple of weeks for the gay-loathing “social conservative.” First they have CPAC laying the law down, calling a boycott’s bluff by letting GOProud remain at the event and now this.
The darling of many on the right and a far chunk of the tea party movement has caused a stir by a simple re-Tweet on her Twitter account. (Re-Tweet for those not Twitter au fait, means forwarding a Tweet by someone else to all your followers.) Palin re-Tweeted a comment from Tammy Bruce about DADT and the idea put forward by some to re-instate the policy via the new Congress.
As CNN explains in its “Ticker” section, the source of kerfuffle is minor at first glance. .
“"But this hypocrisy is just truly too much. Enuf already–the more someone complains about the homos the more we should look under their bed,” Bruce’s original tweet read that was subsequently relayed by Palin.”
This should surprise very few who know that Palin and Tammy Bruce know each other. Palin has never shown any signs of being part of the gay loathing contingent, but there may have been those of that contingent who assumed she was “one of them.”
Ben Smith opines that this a sign that Palin is part of the post-social issue conservative Republicans.
“More broadly, though, she seems roughly representative of a Republican Party that isn't particularly interested in fighting the old culture wars around sex, drugs, and crime -- abortion is the enduring exception, obviously -- and more interested in fighting the new culture wars around the size and meaning of government.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Excuse me. You have already posted an article regarding this. Must you post all that you find?
Jim, please remove this!!
Now you have an article from the rightwing (examiner) and the leftwing (Politico).
The important thing here is to pressure her to FINALLY tell the world what she thinks. Her silence was noticeable during the recent debate.
Please excuse me if I dont think you are in this for the common good. Call me crazy.
Common good is exposing where politicians really stand. “common sense conservatism” is just another version of “compassionate conservatism”. We’ve had enough.
Interesting to see how the Palin supporters spin this one
there is no conservatism without social conservatism. end of discussion. if Sarah is part of the “post social issue” wing, that is profoundly discouraging. Let’s hope this is typical MSM spin.
Okay I hate to be the tit for tat couple but do this for me, start dropping posts on those candidates that you like and are in favor of instead of all the Hate Palin posts. Educate us to who you prefer. We all get you dont like Palin and its getting old. One gets to ignore instead of read when you are always “chopping off at the knees” your doing us and yourself a disservice. JMHO. Carry on good freeper
When a person agrees with the left more than conservatives, it makes me wonder why he bothers to post at FR.
Pissants are true irritants, and he is, but, individually they are nothing and he is, so don't let the little piss-aunt grind you down.
i would like to see who starts to emerge in the next year... by next year i plan to know who i support... by then the campaigning will have begun... at this point in time, i do know who i will NOT support: i will not support Romney, and i will not support Huckabee...
Exposing where politicians really stand on “common sense conservatism” sounds like a worthy goal. But when I was working with drunks and pill poppers and teaching them to be accountable for their own actions I learned it don’t matter—neither can I control what others think—or where they stand.
I can control only myself. If every politicians in America came out to say they favor gays in the Military I would still think it wrong -and bad policy—and dangerous-and would continue to say so. My son thinks he’s queer and “couldn’t change even if he wanted to” Do I stop loving my son? Or do I tell him the truth -in love-he will either repent of his sins and seek the Lord—or he will die in his sins.I can love my son- I can be friendly toward those caught in that web of deceit. But I do not and cannot embrace the lifestyle choice.
Yet another reason why Palin continues to drop on my list of 2012 contenders.
A person has to be pretty undiscerning not to recognise that these are all interconnected.
I am not surprised by this from Governor Palin. She is after all a conservative in the Goldwater/Reagan tradition. Famously, Goldwater said “you do not have to be straight to shoot straight” and famously, Reagan was crucial to defeating the ballot to exclude homosexuals from public schools in CA. People forget that Governor Palin vetoed attempts to rescind the rights of same-sex couples in Alaska. One does not have to believe that homosexual behaviour is “good” to do this. What one does have to understand is that what religious conviction, scripture and tradition regards as “sinful” should not necessarily be regarded as a “crime” by the civil state. Toleration is not the same as sanction. Sarah Palin, wisely,has a clear grasp of these distinctions. However, on homesexuality I believe she has a bootom line. Marrage is for a man and a woman, not otherwise. Period.
She has got the theological/political balance right.
A person has to be pretty undiscerning not to recognise that these are all interconnected.
Sarah Palin Interview: Her Gay Marriage View - CBN.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeAsgAEF3G0&feature=related
The gays are the ones on offense.
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