Sadly, for the GOP this actually counts as bold. Yeah, that's pretty depressing.
Sen. Lindsey Graham
breaks the Republican presidential contenders' silence.
“If Caitlyn Jenner wants to be a Republican, she is welcome in my party,” the South Carolina senator said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “America, we are all in this together.”
Was that so hard? Apparently so, given that prospective presidential candidate Scott Walker was asked a far fluffier question on another of the Sunday shows and
ran for the hills.
[ABC News Correspondent Jonathan Karl]: We had another big cultural moment. President Obama said Caitlyn Jenner coming out like that was an act of courage. Do you agree with that?
[Gov. Scott Walker]: Well, I think it’s a personal decision. And to me, I don’t know that there’s anything more to comment on. It’s a personal decision.
This is cruel, of course, because to hear Scott Walker tell it Scott Walker has not had an actual opinion on anything in his life. You can't ask him to start now on an issue that has even the
biggest, most obnoxious loudmouths in the party
flustered and befuddled.
See, this is the problem with declaring yourself the supreme arbiters of America's morals and sexuality, in every last sodding situation that might come up; people then obligingly come to you to ask about specific cases and whether or not you have opinions on those things. That's what your party stands for, after all. That's what you've been going on about all this time, in your speeches and at your conventions and on the innumerable radio shows devoted to your vision of what real Americans should think.
So the press asks the question, as any reasonable person might expect they would, and you then have to hem and haw because you know damn well that all the vitriol you've devoted to the subject is no longer going to fly now that we're talking by name about an actual much-respected person that the rest of America likes a lot more than they like you. Not quite so easy to talk trash about a decent, moral and accomplished LGBT American when you know that doing so will bite you right in the poll numbers, is it?