Somebody fucked him in the ear? Is that like, aural sex?
I’ll try. As I understand it, Santorum feels that sexuality shouldn’t be an issue in the military and that gay servicemembers should not get special treatment. But reinstating DADT, in essence, *is *making an issue out of sexuality and setting homosexual servicemembers aside for special treatment, negative treatment though it may be.
If Santorum is true to the words he spoke in the debate, the logical thing to do is to promote a policy which says unequivocally that sexuality, like race or gender, has no bearing on the quality and validity of service each servicemember provides within the boundaries of decorum and lawful behavior that applies equally to every servicemember.
You don’t make sexuality a non-issue in the military by singling out specific individuals based solely upon their legal sexual preference and prohibiting their honorable service.
Ah. Thanks, that does quite nicely.
So most conservative Republicans are in favor of capital punishment, disapprove of gays in the military, and are not in favor of government solutions in health care.
Who knew?
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Those are not the conclusions I would draw from the reactions by the debate audience.
- Most conservative Republicans take savage glee in blood retribution.
- Most conservative Republicans have a very fickle respect for American troops.
- Most conservative Republicans think poor people deserve to die.
Well, they do love the night life.
They mostly come at night. Mostly.
Except when they come out in airport bathrooms.
He’s just a modern guy.
The soldier should have been thanked for his service (something I find maudlin at times but has become standard) and should not have been booed.
I am not going to become a Democrat over this incident - that would be nuts. But I am disappointed about it.
I’m disappointed as well. Not shocked, mind you, but disappointed.
I am surprised, simply because the debate was in my town and everyone here is pretty moderate. If it had been in Jacksonville I would have been totally unsurprised.
I also find the constant lionization of members of the armed forces maudlin (and insincere), but you don’t fucking boo them.
Imma teach them all a lesson by only voting for them a little bit this next time around!
-Joe
That’s a bit unfair; it was the crowd cheering, not the candidates (though Santorum obviously didn’t have a problem with it at the time).
Oh that’s fucking ridiculous. These people are supposed to be their party’s leaders.
The reason they didn’t respond is what I said in the other thread: When you’re interviewing for a job, you don’t criticize the guys you’re trying to get a job with.
-Joe
Is there a video or audio of the booing? This was all on TV, right?
Who are supposed to be the leaders? The candidates? Sure, and they didn’t boo. Should they have told the crowd to go fuck themselves? Maybe, but that’s not what’s being pitted.
Not that you’d want to do this over one incident, but if you didn’t want to associate with the Republican party anymore, that doesn’t mean you have to become a Democrat. You could, you know, not be a part of either party. Such a thing is perfectly legal. Just sayin’.
Here it is:
You’re right. The title of the thread should probably have included “and GOP leaders silently endorse it”. Then it’d actually have been 100% accurate.
-Joe