Civil Commotion

Dum-da-dum-dum

Michael Steele, whom the loony-wing of the Republican Party feared may not be conservative enough, is probably a goner.

Q: Do you have a problem with gay priests who are celibate?

A: No, it’s your nature. It’s your nature. You can’t—I can’t deny you your nature.

He also made pro-choice remarks:

Q: Are you saying you think women have the right to choose abortion?

A: Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s an individual choice.

Predictably, the howling has already begun.

Known moron Mike Huckabee, for instance, offers this:

For Chairman Steele to even infer that taking a life is totally left up to the individual is not only a reversal of Republican policy and principle, but it’s a violation of the most basic of human rights–the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I’m guessing that Huckabee meant ‘imply,’ but I don’t actually know that. Words tend to clatter around pointlessly, Brownian Motion-like, in empty heads.

Jefferson once said that governance is the art of compromise. Unfortunately, the ideologues of today’s Republican Party believe you sin and go to hell when you compromise.

UPDATE:   Ken Blackwell, who lost the RNC chairmanship to Steele last January, has this to say:

“Chairman Steele, as the leader of America’s Pro-Life conservative party, needs to re-read the Bible, the U.S. Constitution, and the 2008 GOP Platform. He then needs to get to work — or get out of the way.”

Oh, yeah, I keep forgetting: God is a Republican.