Asshat Quote of the Day

Andrew Sullivan, points the finger of condemnation at the Right Wing for pointing the finger of condemnation at Barack Obama;

I guess I might feel the same way as these sheltered folk if I weren't gay. But anger is a totally legitimate thing to feel when you grow up and realize you will never be allowed to celebrate a marriage or build a family like your parents or siblings. It is totally legitimate when your emotional core is constantly ridiculed, demeaned and even treated as a sickness or a sin. It became a necessity when hundreds of thousands died while others looked on, or persecuted the sick with segregation or disdain, or blamed them for their disease. It is totally understandable when even now, after living in this country for 24 years, with a family and a home, I have to seek a waiver from the government every year to allow me to stay in this country because I have HIV, and only people married to a member of the opposite sex are treated like human beings if immigrants. The government denies you family, dignity and even a secure home - and you are never supposed to feel anger?

Sullivan IS these sheltered folk.

I've said that Sullivan's saving grace is that he understands issues related to being gay. However, putting that singular issue to the side, he's carried the Conservative banner with pride.

He still doesn't realize that the gay issue that he understands so well applies to the rest of the political debate as well.

It's all the same issue.

/update

Further evidence that the Loon style of Conservatism is dying;

Though John McCain won't attend this weekend's "national conversation" convention of Log Cabin Republicans in San Diego, he has asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a gay rights supporter, to be his surrogate.

"We were scheduled to speak at the convention and were asked by McCain campaign to speak on their behalf since they can't attend, and we said no problem," a senior aide to Schwarzenegger said last night. "So Governor Schwarzenegger will talk about the future of the Republican Party and will also talk about McCain."

And, in a further sign that McCain does not consider gay Republicans to be an expendable part of the Republican coalition, he plans to meet soon with executives of the Log Cabin Republicans, people with knowledge of the meetings said.

Suck on that giant wang Doug.. you fucking freak.

What are they going to do when they no longer have gays to hate? I guess there's always the Mexicans.

Loon style Conservatism always has to have religion, and religion always has to have a target. It's fun to watch it disintegrate. Maybe this was Karl Rove's master plan all along - rumor (and it's just a rumor) is that he's bi anyway.. Rove isn't religious, but used and abused them.. and ultimately exposed them for the hateful bitches that they are.. and it's advancing our cause better than we could dream of doing on our own.

Maybe he meant to do that.

/update 2

Sullivan again in another post;

A sad day for Catholic education, when a reasonable, extremely well-educated, respectful lecturer on morality and homosexuality is barred from even engaging in a debate on a Catholic campus. I've made forceful arguments and enjoyed really stimulating discussions over the years at Notre Dame, Boston College, Marquette, Fordham, and many other places of Catholic learning. When will the church realize that allowing the truth to emerge from reason is not a threat to God or the church? Why are we so afraid of the truth?

Hello? Sully? Since when does religion have anything to do with "truth"? Why do you react with surprise at the decisions made at religious colleges?

This is why I want organized religion gone from this planet. Sullivan looks on with perplexed, cocked eye-brow... wondering why they feel the need to exclude contradictory arguments from the debate.

Religion and the Conservative movement, ultimately, is one and the same. This is why Doug deletes and bans all contradictory arguments, and why Jennifer is not really a Conservative.

I don't fully understand why, but people seem to think that political labels trancend time. It changes. When I was much younger, I had some views that would be classified, at the time, as Conservative. Those ideas are now Liberal. If the label doesn't fit anymore, you wear a new label. This is why I asked Jennifer to rebuild her political philosophy, because I'm sure that when she's done, she'll call herself a liberal. I might just have to make a reasoned argument on a few issues to get her to cross that tipping point, but I have no doubt that I can do that.

The whole "gay rights" issue is just an example. I have absolutely no doubt that I could persuade her to support equality under the law, and in fact, reject the traditional views of religious intolerance. I have no doubt at all. At her core, she's a highly emotional person - and she internalizes the pain of others. When she sees the real emotional agony that religion causes, she'll reject it.

Most normal human beings are highly emotional as well. That's why "gay rights" or the "gay agenda" will eventually disapear because once we're all treated, and thought of equally, there will be no agenda. It'll be done.

Sullivan keeps flailing with the political labels.. and keeps whining that Conservatism isn't really "Conservatism" anymore.. It's not, and so instead of trying to reclaim the label, he needs to look at one that actually fits.