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I like this editorial. And I will come back to it. But I wanted to, um, bookmark it so I won’t forget. I figure since I’m on the Paul Hackett bandwagon now I might as well feature some good stuff about him.
UPDATE:
Ok, I’m ready to deal with this. Gods, my family is driving me up the wall. Anyway, here’s something that I liked:
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.”
These are some of the things that I like to see from a politician, straight forward stances. None of that half-assed “how do I make this sound good so everyone like it?” That’s fine with me. I’m opposed to guns, but hey, that’s ok. So far our concealed carry law hasn’t gotten a lot of people killed. He is absolutely right that DeWine is all over the map on issues. But then so many other politicians are the same way. It’s really nice to see someone believe in something and back up that belief in public.
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