Well, that was inappropriate. Ricky Hendon being inappropriate isn’t news though Quinn should have apologized for them since Hendon was speaking on behalf of him–nice advance work there gang!
I had to read it a couple times before I got the full problem with it. At first, I simply read it as typical fodder about Brady not being good on issues of equity and fairness, but the whole would rather LGBT people not exist takes it a lot further once I thought about it and the equality issue would be a flub, but not as serious alone.
There are actually candidates we have around who do argue that women shouldn’t be equal. and everyone seems to ignore that, but Brady has never said anything like that which I’ve heard and if you can get him past platitudes about marriage equality he simply starts mumbling. There’s a reason for this. He doesn’t think any deeper than that. The man is not intellectual which isn’t unusual in a politician, but he goes a step further and is just dumb. He’s good with people and he can campaign hard, but he’s dumb. He doesn’t think that deeply about women’s issues to be against equality. He’s just against the gummint getting in his business and is icked out by Teh Gay. But he doesn’t wish they don’t exist–he doesn’t think about it enough to make a difference to him.
Bill Brady doesn’t have some evil plot he wants to unleash on the State of Illinois. That would take a lot of initiative and he’s never shown any in his legislative career except to climb the ladder–even if it was while one beloved Senator was recuperating from a stroke.
He’ll do bad things as Governor, but only because he sees everything in very simple terms and doesn’t dwell on any solutions besides making broad platitudes and then go and be personable. He’s not Kirk Dillard who might do things I’d disagree with, but make a coherent value based argument about why and be honest about the downside.
If Brady becomes Governor, I already have his theme picked out for four years: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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How would you paraphrase it?
I mean, so he didn’t say “I wish gays didn’t exist”. But he has said “I hope to amend the state constitution to preclude gay folks from enjoying entry into a civil contract and I want people to be able to discriminate against gay people in matters of housing”.
And I’m certain that if we get this clown going, he’ll tell us that hate crimes don’t exist and that we ‘already have laws to put offenders in jail regardless of motive’.
You’re right though. The guy probably isn’t evil – he’s just a dope who’s toeing a party line. But, when it comes to social stuff like this, I find it really difficult to give him a fee pass on the grounds that ‘he’s too stupid to know better’.