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Originally posted by taxwonk
Simple-minded concsistency for its own sake is not the same as commitment, although the two are often confused.
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I'll take simple-minded consistency in comparison to hypocricy any day of the week. In this regard, I like how you guys (used generically) are taking the abortion/gay marriage thing to (try and) show hypocricy in positions of state's righters, without acknowledging that the argument implicitly recognizes that either all or none of them belong in the Federal realm. But noooo, I don't hear y'all admitting that Roe was a mistake. All I'm hearing is y'all laughing about people on our side (and, uhm, yours) making the same inconsistent and fundamentally improper mistake with the gay marriage.
So yeah, if it keeps me from flip-flopping and appearing to find new meanings in the same words every other day, I'll take simple-minded consistency any day. You throw the charge at me from the scrap yard of democratic principles, and its probably the only thing y'all should be trying to keep.
