Principles transcend politics - or at least they should. I applaud an honorable man and wish him well. This is what conservative *should* mean.
( Mike's comment above reminded me, I also appreciate the gist somehwere in the message : Ted Olson - the very conservative lawyer who argued Bush vs Gore before the Supremes, has taken on the fight to overturn Prop 8 - the anit-Gay marriage initiative - in California. He makes the strong case that the government should not be interfering in the private lives of citizens. )
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/us/19olson.htmlhttp://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=101048Good cover story in Newsweek this week as well.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
