Posted on 04/23/2016 6:49:26 AM PDT by markomalley
On Friday's regular "Shields and Brooks" segment on the PBS NewsHour, pretend conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks slammed the North Carolina bathroom law -- which tries to protect women and girls from men intruding into women's restrooms in state buildings -- as he declared that the law is "so bad now I have to praise Donald Trump" for the GOP candidate's criticism of the law on NBC's Today show.
He went on to complain that the Republican party "should have moved on" from "1980s socially conservative culture war politics," and concluded by lauding "moderate" Trump as "not stuck in Jerry Falwell land."
PBS host Judy Woodruff raised the issue:
One of the things that he said in I guess it was on the Today show yesterday, David, is he was asked about this North Carolina LGBT law, the public using public bathrooms, and he basically said that the Republican governor shouldn't have changed the law, that he should have left it the way it was, and now conservatives -- Ted Cruz and others -- are coming back to say this is not the Republican position.
Brooks began his analysis sounding like a liberal:
Yeah, so that law is so bad now I have to praise Donald Trump, you know, and so he's right. I mean, he made the obvious point: Is this really a problem here? Like, are there a lot of bathrooms in North Carolina where people are scared to go in. I don't think this is a problem. This is 1980s socially conservative culture war politics: Pick some issue that seems like something changing in the sexual revolution and try to mobilize the conservative base on the basis of it. That's what it is.
He then added:
And Donald Trump, to his credit, doesn't play that game. He's moved on, as the Republican party should have moved on. He's playing a different game. And so, to his credit, he's not playing that game. Now, it should be said, people are saying, "Oh, he's socially moderate." He's socially moderate but not in the way liberal Republicans are socially moderate or moderate Republicans are. He's socially moderate in a populist way, which is a different sort of moderation, but it does end up moderate on a lot of social issues. And to his credit, he's just not stuck in the culture war. He's not stuck in Jerry Falwell land.
In short, he's making their heads explode.
Note: this is not that I agree with his position, but I understand the strategy.
Which bathroom does this RINO use? Does he stand or squat? Why are these clowns constantly so obsessed with perversion?
Who, you may ask, is T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII?
Simply put, a man born to the conservative saddle. The only scion of the legendary swashbuckling conservative editor / author / bon vivant T. Coddington Van Voorhees VI, I have since my earliest days honed a conservatism forged in the fires of intellectual combat, stoked by the bellows of classic education, and tempered in the cooling waters of good breeding. Even before matriculating at East Hampton Country Daycare, I was thrust headlong into heady intellectual debates of postwar American politics. Oh, how I cherish those moments, bouncing astride my father's knee, as he held postprandial court on the patio with Long Island Sound's most scrupulous Republicans - like Newport GOP chairman Z. Pilastor Fennewick, Greenwich GOP legend Boylston McInernery, and East Hampton's "hostess with the mostest," Modesty Crabwater. And although Dad had his differences with each, I admired the elegant grace with which these Republicans could command an Adirondack chair or accept electoral defeat. It is that very same grace I shall endeavor to bring back to the Grand Old Party.
I don’t want to use this issue like the left uses the mass shootings 10 times a year to beat us at the polls.
I think common sense will definitely prevail and if it turns out that it was a really bad idea, the states will take care of it with the stats to back them up.
I’d rather have a few f...t crossdressers in a lady’s room than have Hillary as president and Trump lose.
The Donald is a genius.
Beth Still delivers a world-class RANT on this topic, and she is right- this is not the issue anyone should be caring about right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bznug53IPto
I COULDN'T AGREE MORE! HOW LONG IS THIS BABY 
GOING TO GO ON??!!!
Of course Brooks is going to criticize the NC law and stand with the perverts and homo-fascists. These are the opening salvos in mainstreaming pedophilia. Perverts allowed in women’s restrooms, locker-rooms, and showers... all as some kind of civil right. They don’t want any forceful opposition to take root. The depraved degenerates have already gotten faggot-marriage through, and turned America into a putrid sewer, and are getting ready for the next steps. And as usual, the GOP will cower in a corner, like the spineless garbage they are.
And the pattern repeats: Trump says something, people Run in Circles Scream And Shout (RICSAS), some people actually think about it, and decide Trump was correct!
Ah-ha! I just realized - the North Carolina bathroom issue isn't just liberal versus conservative. It's a criticism of the backward southerners and their religion by northern elitists - the same people who accuse conservatives of clinging to their guns and bibles.
This is a squirrel that should not be chased.
The ONE issue in this election is stopping the illegal alien inundation.
Do not take your eyes off the border.
The RNC/GOP has used flag-burning and gay marriage to distract us from their perfidy on enforcing the laws and borders while accomplishing nothing on the social issues.
We must have a country and the rule of law for any of the rest to matter.
Just what this country needs. More “morally-neutral positions”.
It’s a states-rights issue. The federal government needs to stay out of it, but then again, the federal government started it. Gay marriage, abortion on demand, LGBT rights—all made worse by top down, federal government intrusion where it should not (and morally/legally cannot per the US Constitution) be.
The SCOTUS does not solve these sorts of issues by misinterpreting the constitution. The supreme legislators just can’t help themselves from meddling, and every time they do, they only muddy the waters more. What should be simple black and white issues with clear boundaries turn into constantly evolving decrees from on high. A consistent bad ruling would be better than the random crap the SCOTUS currently spews.
Trannies for Trump.
It’s not a states rights issues it’s a peoples rights issue. If it’s not delegated to the Federal Government it is let to the states or the people. We have the final say in letting perverts into the women’s bathroom with our daughters. If you think the Federal Government or the state of South Carolina is going to make me let my grand daughters share a bathroom with a cross dressing pervert you have another thing coming.
Genius? Really?
And when he jettisons controlling the border and building “THE WALL” in his pursuit of liberal votes he will also be a genius?
Snippy dilettantes like you can sneer from the bleachers but quality Americans will be fighting to the endzone.
It makes you wonder why do they kowtow to these perverts.
There aren’t any lesbians clamoring to use the men’s room. It is uniformly one direction. Perverts who want access to the women’s room.
So now, the traditional “coming of age” for children of using a public restroom by themselves has been declared dead.
I would not allow my young daughter to go un-escorted into a public women’s restroom. I would have to enter myself (as a man) to protect my daughter from would-be perverts in the women’s room, because I could not be certain that there was not some man in drag looking to violate my daughter in a place where I might not ordinarily go.
These perverts need to be shouted down. Told that they are sick, that this whole argument is sick, and that my wife, and children have rights too. Namely to use the can without potential predators in their midst.
Has Brooks ever taken a conservative view of anything? Things that really motivate Democrats and other liberals are bathrooms and live births (anathema). Such is to be expected from the pro slavery party - more pro slavery today than ever.
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