Saturday, March 03, 2007

Transvestite Mormon bombs with uptight Christianists   [Mark Steyn]

Kathryn, this report from The Houston Chronicle would seem to be at odds with your own analysis:

"It's an honor to be here in high heels, walking backwards," Mitt Romney said Friday as he began his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference.

He was merely referring to a previous speaker's invocation of an old joke — "Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels." But for a guy trying to win over religious conservatives, it was a strange opening line.

Oh, I don’t know. Ginger Rogers’ mom was a bigshot in the DAR. That’s gotta count for something.

If the former Massachusetts governor is going to win the Republican presidential nomination, he is going to have to overcome suspicions that he is a supporter of abortion and alternative lifestyles — and a discussion of women's footwear may not be the way to do it.

“Religious conservatives” reject a woman’s right to shoes? Oh, wait, sorry. You mean conservatives are so insecure they’re either closet transvestites, or suspect Romney’s one, or both? Ah, but time for The Houston Chronicle to move on from its relentlessly single-minded coverage:

For Romney, it showed a measure of bravery coming to CPAC. John McCain skipped it, and Rudolph Giuliani gave a timid speech that avoided abortion and gay rights. The event, after all, is not for the faint of heart. In the session preceding Romney, Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Plano, said of Cindy Sheehan, whose son died in Iraq: "She's an idiot."

Oh, my. Maybe it’s this hard-hitting journalism that’s not for the “faint of heart”.

03/03 10:56 AMShare