"Fourth, we have to get the Log Cabins out of the Republican Party, and displace and disemploy all the GOP pols who let them in -- and that includes, unfortunately, George W. Bush. The DemonRat Party will take the part of the gays reflexively in political affairs. The Republican Party perforce, as the only responsible political party, must defend traditional morality and public sexual hygiene. Therefore, any GOP politician who is unwilling to undertake this duty must go."
Well sir, I couldn't agree with you more - especially on this point.
As much as I admire and support Dubya, I am equally disgusted with his cowardice on this issue as it relates to strengthening the traditional family.
But what alternative do we have?
Bush has let me down on not standing against this. His stand on border patrol reform is horrendous also.
America is in a sad, sad state.
Bush's congeniality toward the Log Cabins and their growing influence within the Party is quizzical, given his personal morality (which I don't for a minute reproach) and his devotion to his wife and family.
I can't figure out to what to attribute his stance on these matters, except that the NeoCons have been ragging on him and the party leadership for years to ditch the social agenda as a "loser" in battleground states. I've referred in the past to Christopher Caldwell's benchmark July 1998 article in The Atlantic Monthly on divorcing the South, and Bush's approach to the Log Cabins, his promotion of pro-abortion judges to the appellate court (a Freeper referred to one of them as "El Souterito"), and his generally squishy posture on non-economic issues, which contrasts sharply and unfavorably with his hard line in favor of delivering tax cuts to Park Avenue investors.
In short, Bush acts as though he'd been governor of Massachusetts, not governor of Texas.
We can't reward him with support, if he's going to diss the family values he lives, when it comes time to articulate public policy and nominate Supreme Court justices. Particularly when the party of hedonism, sodomy, and personal corruption in every dimension of life -- from lying books to perjury to adultery and onanism in the Whie House -- unbelievable! Just unbelievable! -- will automatically take up every opposed position, in favor of every form of human degradation there is, being exalted in policy to the "equally valid construct" peer of High Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on Easter morning.
And I agree with you completely about the Border Patrol, and see that as further evidence that he is supporting a modified McKinleyite agenda -- no tariffs, but lots of wage-breaking, unrestricted immigration, and corporate welfare.