Gay rights, abortion rights, and 1st Amendment are a 'waste of time.'

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Sunday July 16, 2006 · 9:03 AM PDT

2006/07/16 · 09:03

This, of course, is an outrageous statement. Repulsive, even.

Who would say such a thing? Karl Rove? Bill Frist? Hugh Hewitt?

Don't peek at the tags--instead read below. UPDATE: Erm, never mind, per Mcjoan's FP diary. All due apologies to HRC.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, returning to her red-state ties, chastised Democrats Saturday for taking on issues that arouse conservatives and turn out Republican voters rather than finding consensus on mainstream subjects.
Without mentioning specific subjects like gay marriage, Mrs. Clinton said: "We do things that are controversial. We do things that try to inflame their base."
"We are wasting time," the senator told a group of Democratic women here, on part of a two-day swing through a state that could provide an alternate hub to New York if she starts a national political campaign.

So there it is. If the Wingnuts care deeply about it, we're wasting our time trying to resist them or GASP even trying to convince our fellow Americans that our vision is the right one. We need to do less leading and articulating of a vision, and more pandering. And we must never, ever, ever take on controversial subjects. You know, like invading Iraq. So we must roll over when the Republicans offer measurs to repeal parts of the first amendment to deal with the plague of flag burning, turn our GLBT brothers and sisters into pariahs, and try to roll back the clock on abortion rights.

Of course, a further question is what would lead a Democratic politician to make such an outrageous statement so fundamentally in conflict with progressive values?

On recent weekends, Mrs. Clinton has been traveling the country and raising money at an extraordinary pace. But the trip to Arkansas this weekend had a more sentimental feel, reuniting Mrs. Clinton with her former political allies and giving her a platform to broadcast her more centrist background.

Sigh.

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