Rudy Giuliani is a walking insult to Catholicism. He's twice divorced. He conducted a very public affair with a mistress. He supports abortion rights.
This isn't some obscure blogger saying naughty words. This is the presidential candidate himself engaging in behaviors that are deeply repulsive to the same subset of Catholics that were theoretically offended by Marcotte's words.
Have you heard ANY stories about these Catholics registering public complaints about Rudy Giuliani's anti-Catholic lifestyle choices?
Why not?
What can we learn from that?
Ahh, MasterJack, you know where I will go with this.
Giuliani is a right-winger and will be treated like one of the family.
I don't care. What the right wing jerks say and do and how hypocritical they are is a given to me. We can stop them by winning elections and bringing people to our point of view, not by complaining that they missed targets on their own side.
My point is that we cannot accept the same intolerant and hurtful remarks from our side that we will not accept from the other side. In a sense, that is exactly what you are complaining about with Guiliani.
Donohue and Malkin and the rest are sons of bitches who shouldn't be given the platforms they have.
We are better than them, but being better is not enough. We shouldn't grade ourselves on a curve with their behavior included, but on our vision of right and wrong.
That's the problem.
You can either work to get Democrats friendly to progressive Christians get elected, which means occasionally gritting your teeth and letting an idle offensive remark by a third party go, or you can duly wallow in being offended, broadcast your victimhood as loudly as possible, and undermine said Democrat.
The right looks at the big picture. The left doesn't.
That's why the right wins.
We're bogged down in a disastrous Iraq war, the poor in this country are getting screwed, the deficit is out of control, working people are feeling a huge pinch, but hey, at least you got to tell the world how offended you were by Maricotte's comments. I'm sure it was all worth it.
