We all know that politics (and religion, and other things) makes for strange bedfellows, and there’s nothing new about that. Sometimes, we have to form alliances with people we don’t much like. But who are the allies you REALLY hate siding with?
Any atheists out there who cringed when they saw Madalyn Murray O’Hair on TV? Any gun lovers who find Charlton Heston a pompous ass? ANy right-to-lifers who find the Operation Rescue people a bit kooky? Any hemp advocates who are embarrassed by the sub-moronic Woody Harrelson?
COme clean: who are the people on YOUR side that you find an utter embarrassment?
My personal choice: WIlliam F. Buckley. I loved his magazinne, but… MAN, was he good at making ridiclulous arguments on behalf of my causes! (And I still haven’t fully recovered from his serious suggestion that HIV positive gay men have warnings tattooed on their buttocks!)
James Carville. That guy is not only annoying as all-get-out, he’s OBVIOUSLY an alien from some planet of loud, ingratiating, pumpkin-headed dingleberries. 'Nuff said.
Well, as a conservative Republican, it bugs me when there’s a rally/protest/cause, whatever, for something I believe in…
And then David Duke shows up. Great. Now, I can’t even openly support said cause without someone equating me to Duke.
This doesn’t just happen on racial issues. He’s an anti-tax capitalist type who has many beliefs indistinguishable from mainstream Republicanism. Which means he has the opportunity to attach himself to a variety of issues.
Hey, good one! Oh, sorry. I thought I was in the “Best Band Name” thread.
For all the good Bill Clinton has done for this country, Lewinsky-gate, or zipper-gate, or whathaveyou, made him the red-headed stepchild of the democrats.
Yes. She did NOT know how to conduct herself in a debate. She had a great radio show, in which she delivered talks. She sounded reasonable, and the essays were very interesting. But yeah, I think that she did a lot of harm to the atheist movement when she went on TV to “debate” someone. I think she helped it a lot, too…but I don’t know if she did more good or harm.
I agree, O’Hair was, to say the least, abrasive. I was also put off by American Atheists’ web page, which includes a kind of introduction that basically says, “Don’t try to weasel out of it and say you’re a ‘freethinker,’ a ‘humanist,’ or an ‘agnostic.’ Either you’re a full-fledged atheist or you’re a useless, cowardly fence-sitter! Would you like to make a donation to our cause?”
I think I must begin worshipping you now: "Fey, twee G&S nuts . . . " I very rarely hear either or those words, much less both in the same sentence. commences girl-crush