Elaine Donnelly, whose “job” I assumed would have disappeared by now — all she ever really did was fight against gays serving in the military, and that bird has flown — is very upset with Mitt Romney and Ron Paul for failing to pledge to re-weaken the United States military by reinstating Don’t Ask Don’t Tell:
Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR), coordinated the survey. She says she is disappointed that Romney recently told the Des Moines Register he does not plan to change the law mandating homosexual military service.
“Governor Romney told the Des Moines Register that, well, yes — Congress shouldn’t have rushed the repeal bill through, but it’s happened now, and the wars are winding down, so now it’s okay,” Donnelly notes. “That was disappointing because it’s just like with ObamaCare — Congress made a huge mistake in passing that law.”
And the CMR president does not understand why the issue of “gays” in the military has not created the same outrage that followed ObamaCare.
“All of the Republicans are saying it is time to repeal ObamaCare. Why then would we say that the mistake made by the lame-duck Congress with regard to our military should be allowed to stand indefinitely?” she wonders.
Time for an episode of Simple Answers to Stupid Questions, Elaine: the reason the issue of gays serving openly in the military has not created any outrage is that a super-majority of Americans supported repealing the bigoted law. I do understand that wingnuts have to tell themselves thousands of lies per day in order to keep their heads from exploding, but in all the months leading up to repeal, every poll showed that Americans thought the ban on open service was stupid and bigoted. Ergo, repeal did not lead to “outrage.” Or, simpler: Elaine, nobody cares what people like you think about these sorts of issues anymore, save for the shrinking segment of the population that lives in your hateful, misinformed little echo chamber.
Sorry.
She isn’t confused. She’s an a*****e.
Elaine who?
Let’s face it. It is a tremendous ego boost when you carry on to a limited mentality audience who agree with you and applaud you and cheer you and rage with you. It’s like a drug and these clods need a greater than average fix.
John Patrick you took the words right out of my mouth and Michael – LOL!
It’s is interesting though. I think the fact that it’s become more of an issue in political circles, and not necessarily in society itself shows just where the work needs to be done. Legislation can only do so much. I think if any social-conservative cultural change is to be made, it has to be from the ground up.
Thinking of how much ground the pro-life movement has gained, I’ve known many people, of varied faiths, who have been very involved in that movement. And most of them were liberal! I think if only people had more conservative commentary on the issue, they might understand the change that needs to be made. But it’s going to have to be the people, not politicians.