[lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates...

[John Thornton]

Joseph Catron wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:54 PM, BklynMagus <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Republicans have made their bones for decades at the expense of
>> vulnerable gay and lesbian teenagers.  Chickens.  Home.  Roost.
>>     
>
> This is ludicrous on three separate counts:
>
> 1. The two issues are almost completely unrelated;
>
> 2. Two wrongs don't make a right; and
>
> 3. Pseudo-leftists getting back at the mean old Republicans by
> striving to outdo them in the nervous hen department, clucking more
> apprehensively about young people (and more specifically, young women)
> today, is one of the most absurd spectacles yet.

One way to show the stupidity of Republican talking points is to show 
how Republicans don't hold to the standards they espouse for others.
It is also good to show people the hypocrisies of the right-wing in a 
very concrete manner.

"Two wrongs...." is childish nonsense. If you really care about 
implementing policies that help people you do what it takes to implement 
them and you don't waste time being sanctimonious.
No one is clucking about this teens behaviour.
The point is to show another failure of abstinence only education for a 
self-appointed "good family".
No one here is chastising Bolin for having sex.

John Thornton