Oooh ... may take one to know one but you're in serious Bimbo Territory now, baby.
Horowitz is an opportunist, plain and simple, who's playing an integral part in making the GOP feel Clever and Excused (after all, it's OUR turn now) for choosing all the WRONG pages from the Left's playbook.
His almost visceral reaction to Dr. Keyes during his first townhall (back when this forum was not quite so chock full of Enthusiasts) was practically a foreshadowing of what you all have turned into.
Keyes is not a problem because he's self-serving or criticizes Bush or refuses to leave the GOP even if he's going to criticize it as well.
Keyes is a problem for you all for he stands as a buoy all can see in the distance ... marking the ever-widening expanse between the GOP and the objective truth the GOP has been compromising in earnest as it abandons the Constitution, abandons the fight to overturn the Mother-Only Right to Homicide and cheers the President's Clintonesque decision to provide no funding for the "destruction" of embryonic human lives but only those which had "already been killed".
In your hearts -- and you consciences ... we all have one -- you know good and well that's why you attack him so viciously. If he really were all the things you say he is, he would be UTTERLY irrelevant.
Do you see a "relevant" anti-war movement or criticism of the administration today? There aren't any. It's Un-Patriotic.
I wish you all would just drift in peace and allow this man to spark some consciences where he can. Many of us would rather go down knowing how precious life is rather than just sort of fading to Grey in the Area of moral relativism and "war-time" powers which are obliterating forever what's left of our Constitution and exiling to another world entirely the letter and spirit of our Declaration.
As Horowitz writes The summary event I mentioned took place during a debate in the New Hampshire contest, moderated by Tim Russert. It was a moment when the redoubtable Keyesa preacher without a church stepped forward to call Sen. McCain to judgment. McCain's mortal sin was to reveal that he had been to a rock concert with his fifteen-year-old daughter and had liked a band called Nine Inch Nails.
In New Hampshire, McCain's misstep allowed Keyes to turn his lamp of righteousness on his hapless opponent.
Keyes (sternly): Don't you think that as leaders we ought to be a little bit more serious about the kind of influences that are now destroying the lives of our children, instead of aiding and abetting the cultural murder that is taking place?
McCain (to Russert): Can I get a life-line? (laughter)
Russert: Who do you want to call?
McCain: My 15-year-old daughter. (laughter)
Keyes (glowering): I'm a father and I've got to tell you I'm not laughing.
It was as if Keyes had caught the Senator making whoopie with the Antichrist.
While I'm no fan of McLame's, I remember the exchange and all I could do is shake my head and laugh. What a pompous little jerk.
When I was fifteen I went to Led Zeplin, The Who, Rolling Stones, Deep Purple,etc etc concerts in in New Orleans and I turned out alright.
The Keyster is a just a mean spirited little idiot.