Conserving That Compassion
Oct 28th, 2006 at 8:46 am by Susie
The New York Times once again discovers something that’s been obvious to the rest of us for years:
All this is, as everyone knows, just a show for rousing the base. If the last month has taught us anything about the Republican Party, it is that homophobia is campaign strategy, not conviction. Congressmen who trust their careers to gay staffers vote for laws to enshrine second-class citizenship for gays in the Constitution. Gay appointees and their partners are treated as married people at official ceremonies and social gatherings. Then whenever an election rolls around, the whole team pretends it’s on a mission to save America from gay marriage.
Mr. Bush and his faithful acolytes seem perfectly willing to stoke fears that create division and sorrow in a country that doesn’t need any more of either. The president has just a little more than two years left in office. You’d think that for once he’d want to consider devoting his time to making things better instead of worse.
It wouldn’t be fair to totally blame Dubya with that floater-in-the-gene-pool mother of his. He is his mother’s boy.
Having said that, he deserves all the scorn and ridicule everyone can possibly muster. He’s as fake as a three-dollar bill … you know the rest.