“Your quote of the day from Ward Connerly makes a good point about the need for conservatives of all stripes to stick together in the current political climate of our country. To adopt a pithy phrase from Benjamin Franklin, we “either hang together or hang separately.” But I think it would be remarkably short-sighted for those of us on the libertarian end of the conservative movement to underestimate the amount of betrayal that many social conservatives feel, not only about the issue of same-sex marriage, but also about the failure to substantially alter the political and judicial culture on a host of other issues (abortion being the most obvious issue, but many social conservatives are also disappointed that divorce, in the face of a mountain of social science data on its detrimental consequences for children, is not a topic of discussion within the broader political culture as well). Libertarians often treat social conservatives as useful idiots – folks who are good to have around because they tend to vote Republican, but not really the folks you want to have sitting at the “grown up table” deciding social policy. That may be a correct judgment in substance (although I don’t think so), but it is a disastrous way to run a coalition.” – more criticism (of my coverage of the Dems) on the Letters Page.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I am not trying to say that [the Americans] are angels! They have their interests; they came to Iraq for that reason, not to free the Iraqis. But the fruit is, in fact, liberation.” – Chaldean Bishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk, speaking to an Italian journalist.
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