Mundanely Profound

Hooray!!!

Could this be the longest hiatus in the history of the blogosphere?

I tried out this blog thing during the summer while I was an intern in D.C. Since then I got back to school in Des Moines, Iowa and am just about wrapping up an incredibly crazy senior year socially, academically, and politically.

Yeah, I am a political junkie, and I am in Iowa! That means I am up right close in Iowa caucus land so all you Coasters (East and West that is, why isn’t that cute phrase passed around amongst sophisticated Midwesterners to label those distant cultural elitists who view us backward bumpkins with contempt) who couldn’t give a rat’s ass about flyover country ought to pay attention to me for some views from the corn fields. I already have been helping out with the Howard Dean campaign here.. I helped move the first desks into his Iowa campaign headquarters. I’ve also seen Dean and Kucinich speak on the Drake University campus and hope to see more as they trot around the state.

So I’ve got a few more impossible academic obstacles to overcome, and rather than wait until after graduation in a week, I decided I’d lose some sleep figuring out how to post on my blog properly.

The prominent gay conservative Bush-supporter columnist Andrew Sullivan apparently been given the same McCarthyesque treatment [scroll down a little] every legitimate critic of Bush has got for questioning a policy of the Commander-in-Chief. And people are picking on him for his criticism of not even a Bush policy (or shallow rhetoric suggestive the semblance of actual policy), but an outright publicity stunt with questionable undertones about the proper role for a civilian President. Well you are either with him completely (including his praise for Senator Santorum for being an “inclusive” man) or against him, and if you want to have even a slightly nuanced view that includes a minority sexual orientation, a praise for the war in Iraq, and the ability to not view everything the President does as a matter of divine will, then I guess there’s no room for you in the club of patriotic Americans.

I haven’t had time to read a lot of Andrew Sullivan’s criticisms of Sen. Santorum’s comments, but I’m wondering how many close-minded arch-conservatives have to slip up in prominent positions before all that’s left of the Republican party’s hardcore supporters are bible-thumping evangelists who’ll support Bush no matter what he does because he allowed favorite philosopher to forgive him. A few more calls for crusades against immorality, and you might have all of the marginal Republicans propping up the compassionate conservative big tent just watch the 2004 campaign go into battle, stare coldly and walk away, kind of like that scene in Braveheart (do you know what I’m talking about, is that a good movie reference?). That analogy barely works, but oh well.

Now lets see if I got all the blogging code down right.