In a speech Friday to Log Cabin Republicans, a conservative gay rights group, Steve Schmidt said allowing same-sex marriage is in line with the conservative credo of keeping government out of people's private lives.
If the Republicans are as smart as they try to suggest they are, why does it take them so incredibly long to understand what I've been saying for years?
The problem, of course, is that the Republicans view "conservative" in a variety of different ways, and they aren't always mutually agreeable. Religious conservatism isn't the same as political conservatism.
There are a lot of conservative attitudes which I can understand and sometimes agree to. But when those attitudes extend towards telling other people how to live their lives, that's where I draw the line. Yet for at least 15 years, the Republicans have been very actively trying to tell us how to run our lives while at the same time becoming quite offended when other people try to do the same.
I have to wonder if the latest comments are part of a new trend in the party.
