Re: Bush Strums as New Orleans drowns

In article <kaNUe.8733$Wd7.3295@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Zev Sero <zev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>James A. Donald wrote:
>
>> Damien Neil
>>
>>>>>It's safe to say that the Republicans will
>>>>>certainly *try* to beat any anti-drug-war
>>>>>Democrats over the head with that position. And,
>>>>>as with Elders, they'll probably be successful.
>>
>>
>> James A. Donald:
>>
>>>>But they did not beat Elders over the head with that
>>>>position. She was whacked for her nutty views on
>>>>sex education.
>>
>>
>> Zev Sero
>>
>>>Actually, they did beat up on her for her position on
>>>drugs. That left her wounded enough that she was left
>>>without any support, and the moment she mentioned
>>>masturbation she was forced to resign.
>>
>>
>> To describe the same events in different words. Her
>> position on drugs had no discernable adverse
>> consequences. Her position on teaching sex to children
>> got her in deep @#$%
>
>What she said about sex made perfect sense, though it predictably
>outraged the more conservative groups. Had she not dared to question
>the War on Some Drugs, I think her own side would have rallied behind
>her, and she would have survived whatever the right threw at her.
>But she was damaged goods, nobody wanted to be seen with her, and
>when she said something that was easily misinterpreted so as to make
>her an object of ridicule, she was gone.

You might be right, but I think you're underestimating how bat***
crazy some people are on the subject of sex.
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