Worth repeating……

I watched This Week today on AFN. I love watching George Will.  Because lately he has been on a roll-telling the Emperor that he has no clothes:

Social conservatives should grow up. If they want to rally around somebody, why don’t try that? Huckabee needs support and money now. If the social conservatives are half as important as they think they are, they would rally around one of these people [..] And then decide what you care about. If you care about judges, then you’re gonna get satisfied by Giuliani, then get in line and play politics. But there’s a vanity in this group right now. They call themselves “values voters.” I’ve news for them: 100% of the American electorate are values voters; they vote their values…And this, this, kind of semantic imperialism that they have where they say “we vote values”. Everyone else votes what?

Exactly! The problem is that the Evangelical Right Wing just cannot get it through their thick heads that  they have to play by the same rules as everyone else. America is about freedom. ( Or it used to be until the current administration decided that “homeland security” was worth trashing the Constitution for). The freedom to worship or not worship, the freedom to swear or not swear, the freedom to have sex or not. You want a candidate you like-then get him to run. Or stop whining when your appointed “saviour” Fred Thompson finally gets into the race and stumbles right away. Like it or not, more Americans are more aligned with Giuliani than they are with Huckabee. Get over it Rev Dobson.

Don’t just take my word for it, there are more people than me who think the Republican party walked away from them-not the other way around.  Listen to the words of a conservative-who would never fit the good Rev Dobson’s vision of a real Republican:

For you see, according to my many critics on the hard right, evidently I am not a conservative. I am an atheist, pro-choice, gay loving, liberal weenie – despite the fact I was on the frontlines of conservative activism when most of my critics were still in books or not even born yet. There wouldn’t be a conservative revolution without people like me and it’s time you haughty, holier than thou, insufferably arrogant party destroying numskulls acknowledged it. You have turned a party with which a majority of Americans identified because of its probity, its strong stands on national defense, foreign policy, and fiscal restraint into the party of anti-abortion zealots, gay bashing louts, and obsessed morality nannies.

It was also nice to see George Will comment on the most non-event of the the week, the so called gaffe of Barak Obama over not wearing an American Flag Lapel pin. This statement should have been a non-issue. Basically he said wearing a lapel pin should not be a fashion requirement. Amen.

Now I will admit, Obama’s reply kind of threw down the gauntlet-all he really had to say was that it was a matter of personal choice-but I actually agree with him in a way. Things have become weird when it is expected that you wear a flag lapel pin-personally I do not like lapel pins of any kind. I think a suit looks better without them. However I do have some US/Japanese flag lapel pins and I have worn them at parties where will be with a lot of Japanese hosts.

In recent years its seems like to be a politician,  its become de rigeur to wear the pin. Which is really sad when you look at some of the people wearing them:

That, by the way is a another American freedom-the freedom to choose.

Nuff Said!