We started the Post Scott Brown series back when Scott Brown won the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by the late Ted Kennedy. We knew the elation over his win ("new era" of conservative takeover of the GOP) was overblown. This is the first addition in a long dry spell to the series because more popular sites, of whose allegiance to principle remains open to question, seem to enjoy passing along troubling news. Because he does not appear to be nasty to SoCons as others are, I give you this from Ace:
And now Scott Brown, somewhat predictably, as he had the same objection.Let me remind you that Scott Brown's "staunch conservatism" was denied by him as early as nine days after his election. From PSB Day 9:
Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown today voiced his support for a stand-alone repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell [DADT] policy, bringing the bill one vote over the 60-vote threshold that it will need to reach if and when the Senate votes on the measure in the coming weeks.
See? This hardly took any time at all: "Brown tells AP he'll sometimes side with Democrats". One needed not be some great seer to recognize that Scott Brown is human, and a politician at that, and he hails from Massachusetts. QED.Scott Brown is merely another ADE to those who are applying the finishing touches to the destruction of one of America's most important institutions -- it's armed forces. I'm not sure how DADT will undermine our forces, but almost assuredly it will come from treating non-heterosexuals as a protected class. No, it does not need be that way, but that is the way it has played out in every other institution in this country. This does not portend well for our forces.
My principled position is:
DADT should not be removed UNTIL the destructive and unjust practice of dividing the population between protected and unprotected classes is ended. This anti-American one-way street of "justice" must end.So far, even among friends, I have not heard a single voice who agrees with me. Maybe only God knows how badly that speaks for our country.
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we aren't friends -yet-
ReplyDeleteI do agree w/ you -
DADT was a compromise -at the time-
We who have been in the fray fro a long time - knew that it would be rescinded and it was-
little lisa Murkowsky(sp) Alaska Sen who lost -but won thanks to the NRSC- also had a hand in this travesty....
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I'm convinced that the RINOs are the brains behind the Dems. The Dem leadership are so far removed from reality, and often from decency, their party could not exist without RINOs running interference in so many ways. I'm struggling with a new post to explain why a better, more insulting acronym is needed to replace RINO.
ReplyDeleteThere are too many good reasons for the RINOs to laugh at the word RINO. They view themselves as republicans well enough, simply not constitutional ones. They laugh at us for expecting them to be constitutional. I'd love to figure out a way to make use of VIPERS. Jackass is already taken the other party.