"Eagles" I haven't heard of.
"Social conservatives" -- as far as I can tell, this means outlawing abortion completely, and outlawing homosexuality, as well.
Abortion used to be the hottest button. I don't believe in unrestricted abortion throughout the entire nine months of pregnancy, but don't think it's murder to use morning after pills. To "social conservatives" that makes me a murdering liberal, and to "liberals" that makes me a woman-hating fascist.
Homosexuality, for reasons I can't comprehend, is turning into another hot button. I've told this anecdote before - when I was a kid, my grandmother rented out the "little house" behind their business to a devoted homosexual male couple. One of them was the stereotypical hairdresser, the other worked at Keesler Air Force Base doing clerical type work.
My grandmother let me know they were gay, and this was fine with her - I have no idea what words she used, this was almost 40 years ago - but she probably said, she didn't care if they were white, black, green, purple or polka-dotted, which was an expression of hers. Now, this was 1960-1965 in Biloxi, Mississippi, so if my grandmother didn't care, then, why should anybody care now?
In "Do the Right Thing," Danny Glover says that we all know what the right thing is, it's what our grandmothers taught us. I had good grandmothers, and I miss them. No idea whether they'd like Schwarzenegger, but they were suckers for good looking guys who were polite and well-spoken. I don't think they would have liked Clinton, at least not after he'd been around for a while (too slick), and they would probably have doted on Dubya. |
