Often times Ray LaHood is called a moderate. That’s not true, he’s quite conservative, but in our stupid discourse, decent gets confused with moderate. LaHood demonstrates the difference today by being decent:
| CHICAGO — A seven-term Republican Congressman from Illinois is taking issue with fellow Republican Sarah Palin, saying some of the vice presidential candidate’s rallies “don’t befit the office she’s running for.”
Republican Congressman Ray LaHood represents the 18th District: central and western Illinois, including Peoria. He’s retiring in January. LaHood supports the McCain ticket, but doesn’t like what he sees at some of the McCain-Palin rallies: When Barack Obama’s name has been mentioned by Sarah Palin, there are shouts of “terrorist,” and LaHood says Palin should put a stop to it. “Look it. This doesn’t befit the office that she’s running for. And frankly, people don’t like it.” Congressman LaHood says it could backfire on the Republican ticket. He says the names that Obama is being called, “Certainly don’t reflect the character of the man.” |
Agreed, but this line is dripping with irony:
He says the names that Obama is being called, “Certainly don’t reflect the character of the man.”
…But, that’s the McCain camp’s whole reason for being right there.
“In our stupid discourse, decent gets confused with moderate.”
Right on Arch. That’s one of the things that galls me most as a conservative — that there aren’t more of us making our case with respect, reason and decency instead of name-calling and fear mongering.
Just because the “other side” allegedly does it first is no reason to do it ourselves. I thought we were supposed to be better than that!
I do think there are plenty of good reasons not to vote for Obama, but his middle name isn’t one of them.