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To: Kaslin
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It sounds like this gentleman is suggesting that because some homosexuals engage in "frequent and anonymous" sexual encounters -- as do some straight people -- all gay people with access to sensitive information are ipso facto national security risks. Okay then. Rather than punch holes in this, er, logic, I'll just encourage you to read Jen Rubin's take down of this nonsense here. [Link in original.]

Cleanup on aisle 3 ..... Jennifer Rubin, quoted by the author, is a neocon. No love lost between neocons and social or Southern conservatives: in fact, neocons have been busy for almost 20 years, trying to push Southerners out of any positions of influence in the GOP.

Note in this long article about her at the Progressive Policy Institute's "Che Guevara Files" on prominent conservatives and neocons, that she is not quoted at all on social issues, although she supports certain conservative evangelical groups, such as Rev. Hagee's, that support Israel.

Cold link here:
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/rubin_jennifer

The PPI's silence on her social values is thunderous, and speaks eloquently of her Eastern urban social values, as opposed to the family-values agenda of "guns, God, the unborn, and DOMA".

73 posted on 04/25/2012 1:49:00 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus; Kaslin
Uyup, Jennifer Rubin is a neocon and a social liberal on some key issues, which is why she got cited.

This article explains in part:

But Rubin, who has never shied from a fight, says that her role is different from conservative bloggers: She’s commenting on the right, not defending it.

And she is not, by many measures, a conservative stalwart. While she rarely writes on social issues, for instance, she breaks with her party on some of the most deeply politicized ones. While she thinks Roe v. Wade should be “repealed” as legal folly, her own view on abortion “is Bill Clinton’s line” — “safe, legal and rare,” she said, though she said she could support banning some late-term abortions. She says of same-sex marriage, “each state should be able to decide and people should be able to marry who they wish.”

“I have never understood the argument that gay marriage diminishes heterosexual marriage,” she said, adding that it’s not high on her list of priorities.

She said she doesn’t view her heterodox views as a handicap.
Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66854.html

And for the record, she now holds the WaPo blogging job covering "the Right" that was outed as a fraud in 2010 by Tucker Carlson in the Dave Weigel meltdown. She at least seems to be more honest, or at least forthcoming, about her job than Weigel and his masters were. She writes that she covers conservatism, and de-emphasizes the Post's original idea that the job was covering the movement from the inside -- a good idea considering she's no defender of DOMA.

74 posted on 04/25/2012 3:33:56 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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