Paul Hackett Is My Hero
I was starting to think already that I prefer Paul Hackett over Sherrod Brown in Ohio's Democratic Senate primary this year, but this latest article in the Columbus Dispatch settles it. I wish I had decent commentary here, but Hackett just nails it. Watch how this all develops:
Hackett said he opposes capital punishment – too much risk of executing an innocent person – for everybody except the fool who violates his family and home."Break into my house, we won’t have to worry about the application of the death penalty. It’s going to be a simple 911 call: Come pick up the body."
With succinct coherence, Hackett said: "I’m pro-choice, I’m pro-gayrights, I’m pro-gun-rights. Call me nuts, but I think they’re all based on the same principle and that is we don’t need government dictating to us how we live our private lives."
Asked to define being pro-gayrights, Hackett said anybody who tries to deny homosexuals the same rights, including marriage, as every other citizen is un-American. Are you saying, he was asked, that the 62 percent of Ohioans who voted in November 2004 to constitutionally deny same-sex marriages are un-American?
"If what they believe is that we’re going to have a scale on judging which Americans have equal rights, yeah, that’s un-American. They’ve got to accept that. It’s absolutely un-American."
Game, set, match. They're still going to nuke him on this, but wow, this guy is a force of nature. (P.S. Why did the editor make "gayrights" one word?)