re: #6 makeitstop

The thing that astounds me about these stories - I posted the TPM story about Paul’s Iowa chair and the death penalty for gays on my Facebook page yesterday, and a few of my friends seem to be dismissing this stuff as your usual campaign rhetoric.

Among my friends at least, there seems to be an attitude that ‘you can find something wrong with any candidate,’ and Paul’s past (and present) associations are some kind of ‘gotcha’ game.

It’s really bothering me, because the people saying these things are otherwise pretty smart people and I don’t know how to make clear to them that this isn’t just politics as usual and the guy’s got some really bad friends.

Blind affection, or blind hatred, leads to, well blindness.