re: #353 jamesfirecat

I don’t care what partisans do. They’re partisans. They just want to push whatever they think will give them an advantage. If Republicans want to pretend that there’s no longer any culture war, they can do that because they’re partisans. And if Democrats want to drum up the culture war, they can do so. No big deal. I simply expect reasonable people to make reasonably informed decisions. In this case I’m simply saying that Sharron Angle’s position on abortion is largely irrelevant to the position she is running for, however, she might be largely irrelevant, anyway, so it might be advantageous for Republicans to just let her lose so we can keep Harry Reid as the Majority Leader, not so much because he’s ineffective, but because he’s s lot more trustworthy on gun issues than Chuck Schumer.

I don’t know what it means to say that Republicans “started the culture war.” There are so many aspects to the culture war that were justifiably started be anti-establishment types, and others that were started by people afraid of natural social change. To say that some of the things that I’m fighting for are out of fashion as if I have been fighting the culture war is largely mistaken.