Thursday, April 9, 2009

Two Right-On Reads

Some good ones today by two names familiar to Romney supporters....

I'll give this a 'Quote of the Day' nod
by Kevin Madden
found on Politico's The Arena:
President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.


And Eric Fehrnstrom writes
on the five biggest myths about gay marriage
in the Des Moines Register:

I was working at the Statehouse in Boston when gay marriage was legalized in Massachusetts in 2003, so I know a little bit about what's in store for the people of Iowa. The next few years will not be happy times for the Hawkeye state. Battles lines will be drawn. Neighbors will be pitted against neighbors. Extremists on both sides will turn Iowa into ground zero in the nation's culture wars.

It's a shame, because there are good people both for and against gay marriage. There's just no middle ground. The first casualty will be respect and tolerance for people on the other side. In that kind of polarizing environment, an extra-human effort is required for a civil debate.

Much of what Iowans hear and read about this debate will be tangled up in hyperbole and emotion. Here are what I see as the five biggest myths about gay marriage, based on the Massachusetts experience:

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