Reply #48: Well, yes, some things really are right and wrong. [View All]

[EFerrari]

This man is making a lot of money from his horrible behavior to women, gays and even Jews. Rewarding that is clearly wrong.

Rewarding bad behavior is not post-partisan, it is enabling, it's complicity. It may be a good political move for Obama but it's not in the best interest of our culture, of the greater good, no matter how well it's sold to us.

I'm fine with disagreeing with conservatives - I actually miss the time when it was possible to civilly disagree.

But what we blithely now call the "culture wars" have real consequences for real people. Women who can't access health care and hate crimes against gays on the rise. Rape in the military that can't be reported because if you tell, you're out. There is no ambiguity, no gray area there. Those things are wrong. And Warren advocates those outcomes.

I'm fine with debating prayer in school. I'm not fine with negotiating the civil rights of my gay brothers and sisters. I'm not fine with debating health care for women. Taxes I can argue about but it's clearly wrong to promote this hateful man or to pretend that somehow his bigotry is just a different, equally valid viewpoint when his whole culture is corrupt and his livelihood depends upon inciting a group of people to hate another group of people.

Some things really are simply wrong. And no amount of political frosting or feel good framing changes that.