We Are Family

I just want to say that despite the best efforts of Nice Liberals to portray the Tea Party folks as a gang of unwashed backwoods slackjaws, googly-eyed cryptofascist racists, insane conspiracy-mongers driven to rage by Obama's insufferable half-blackness, they actually appear to have consistent principles. So even a church-going tea-partier who personally dislikes the idea of some gays getting married can hold true to the idea that when he says shit oughta be left to the states, he means shit oughta be left to the states. Whereas your average liberal/proggie is still accusing Michael Steele of terrorism or something for calling the war in Afghanistan folly. Cue someone at Kos to gratuitously interject with the phrase, "Our President."

Where the devolution of power from a monolithic centralized authority to smaller political units is concerned, "states rights" is grossly inadequate, but it's certainly moving in the right direction, and it's a thousand times more admirable than the cult of the fucking presidency. Consider this. On the side of the Defense of Marriage Act: a president and political party that claim to support and lurve gays. Opposing it: the people who supposedly represent the worst elements of revanchist America.