re: #23 gehazi

I don’t know. I watched the Maddow piece this morning and thought he had the look of a man painfully aware of the conflict between what he knew was morally right (discrimination is bad, whether public or private) and his political principles (the government should interfere in private affairs as little as possible).

He seems like an intelligent guy, but maybe it’s an issue he has never truly been forced to struggle with or think about. His instinct was to grab for his anti-government principles, without first considering the ethical issues involved.

Which, now that I think about it, is not a bad description of the entire Tea Party movement.

This completely conflicts with his social conservatism.