Our Business

I can remember a day when, according to Democrats, it was absolutely not the public's business whether legislators like Tip O'Neil or Ted Kennedy were alcoholics or not. What mattered was that they performed their elected duties, we were told. And nothing else.

My, how times have changed for Democrats:

Jacob Weisberg’s article on weird conservative beliefs ledes with this:

At a press conference last week, someone asked Chris Christie for his views on evolution vs. creationism. “That’s none of your business,” the New Jersey governor barked in response.

Weisberg moves on quickly to other things, just using this as an illustrative example. But it’s worth highlighting the fact that it absolutely is our business whether or not Chris Christie believes in evolution. This isn’t like asking whether Christie’s secretly a Rangers fan or something. Christie oversees education policy for the state of New Jersey and they teach biology in New Jersey schools. You can look up the state’s life science curriculum standards if you scroll down a bit here (it’s section 5.3) and it involves evolution. And rightly so! Does Christie stand by that, or doesn’t he?

The mind boggling idiocy of this should be enough to make any rational person at least cringe, and if you know anything about history it should give you even greater pause. Think about what is being claimed here. What now matters to this particularly dimwitted breed of Democrat is not what a given politician does or doesn't do. All of it can be colored by the knowledge that they may hold a politically incorrect idea or belief. For a rational person if you wanted to know what a Governor thinks about education you would look at the policies and changes he or she has actually implemented (or attempted to implement.) The idea that all of this evidence can be thrown out the window if the Governor has certain "suspect" characteristics or traits is essentially irrational and pretty damn scary.

The only analog I can think of in the history of the world is the similar belief that, for example, the race or ethnicity of an artist could make a work of art created by them "degenerate."

Talk about a weird belief.