more blather

I sure hope the dems can figure out how to choose their battles with bush.
I'd like to see a strong opposition, but they also need to figure out how to support stuff that isn't stupid. I think part of the malaise is because after 9/11 they rolled over everytime Ascroft said boo. It's ok to agree on something, but they need to be strong and resolute about some thing, to use an expression Mr Inflexible uses.

Post-Election Blather

After the election and listening to all the crap on the news (mostly npr) I have all this blather rolling around my head. I hope I can get a little off my chest.

Moral Values
Is this really the line that divides us? Is it code for gay marriage and abortion?

One thought that kept coming back yesterday is the the folks that voted for Bush (or against those eastern liberal types, as I think it was to some extent) are both prudish and squeamish. They don't like to think about having sex with someone of the same gender, or about having an abortion. These things are just gross. A liberal is somone who wants to remind me of these things. It comes back to basically homophobia and prudishness. Maybe that's what "Moral Values" means.

Even though Kerry carefully avoided talking about gay and abortion issues if he could the Bushies and their allies painted Kerry (and the east coast intellectual liberal elite) as people who were going to force their teenagers to have gay sex and then abortions. Of course not literally, but with code.

After a day this doesn't seem that important, but I think it's a small part of the picture.