Posted by
gab on Monday, April 20, 2009 4:47:45 AM
STEVE SCHMIDT
TAKES A RISK WITH GOP on
Gay Rights - YEA!!!
(If you hate the idea of making marriage legal for gays, YOU
SHOULD READ THE ENTIRE TRANSCRIPT LINKED BELOW)
Left Wing Media Doesn’t Know What to do with Steve Schmidt’s
Speech to Gay Political group. (Or
more interesting…….do republicans know what to do with Steve Schmidt’s
speech? ) Why is no one piling on
and agreeing with him, and supporting his point???? At the very least,
left wing liberals should be appaulding him!
In his first speech to ANYONE since running the election for
John McCain, Steve Schmidt made a powerful and moving speech to the Log Cabin
Republicans (a gay political group) in DC a few days ago.
A transcript of the complete speech can be found at:
http://www.towleroad.com/2009/04/steve-schmidt-to-log-cabin-gop-must-embrace-gay-marriage.html
He made some amazing
points regarding this highly charged issue, which I think are worth
conservatives’ thoughtful reflection.
(The added bonus of reading Mr. Schmidt's speech is that he has some
wonderful analysis and thoughts on the Obama/McCain election – and remember ---this was his
first speech since the election. P.S.:A small note, don't skim, read every PP, it has such a nice flow and so many astute, thoughtful points - read from beginning to end)
What was troubling after the speech, was watching CNN
struggle with how to cover this!!!
Yes, they had to cover it – I mean after all, a major political mind of
our generation (Mr. Schmidt)
urging Republicans to lead the way in allowing gay marriages, accepting
gays sexual orientation as innate, and not hiding behind the Bible for
ammunition against gays....AND telling the republican party that they need to wake
up and quit being perceived as
intolerant...........WOW!
Yet, after watching CNN in the background all
day after the speech, I watched each newscaster struggle (and their
editorial/input boards) with how to deal with a major Republican figure
speaking their (liberals) tune…Ummm, we can’t really attack him, and we
certainly are not going to be decent people and applaud him – so ummmmm, lets
see, oh, We will pick him apart on his “timing” and his “choice of venue"– and his “lack of consideration of the republican base…why didn’t he take
baby steps and test the water on this topic with republicans rather than just
come right out and say what he thought?”
Or, let’s adopt a sarcastic smile and throw up some red/blue charts later in the day
to make it all political.
Arggggggggggg, do you
hear or sense, while I am
writing this, that I am pulling my hair straight out of my head over our
senseless media puppets who have actually no moral backbone or decency. What a glaring example, again, of the
media speaking out of both sides of their mouth, and changing realities for
partisan leanings. If
Democrats/liberals/media want Change (use of capital ‘C” on purpose, to remind
us of how important that word was to the Democrats) than they got it smack dab in their laps, via Steve’s speech. And the fact that they cannot
spontaneously and promptly applaud that effort, shows the shallow and cynical
shadow of their belief system.
Did anyone of them (media) think, just maybe, , that Steve
had done a courageous and heartfelt act (he does have a gay sister so obviously
has first hand experience and knowledge of the issues surrounding any gay individual)….. and that maybe they could talk about
that rather than try to turn him, or the issue, into something that serves
their own purposes, i.e, use any wiley technique, any obscuring of facts, any drumbeat,
any silly lead in music, or small laughters before they start the story, to
diminish what happened.
Here is a man, Steve Schmidt, who could talk on hundreds of fascinating
topics, to any venue he pleases, yet he just did what he did for his own
reasons. And perhaps we should all talk about what he said. Republicans and Democrats.