Kinsley Calls It

Am I Blue? (washingtonpost.com)

I mean, look at it this way. (If you don't mind, that is.) It's true that people on my side of the divide want to live in a society where women are free to choose abortion and where gay relationships have full civil equality with straight ones. And you want to live in a society where the opposite is true. These are some of those conflicting values everyone is talking about. But at least my values -- as deplorable as I'm sure they are -- don't involve any direct imposition on you. We don't want to force you to have an abortion or to marry someone of the same gender, whereas you do want to close out those possibilities for us. Which is more arrogant?

Every once in a while, Michael Kinsley reminds me why he is one of my favorite writers. Kinsley cogently, and with wry humor, makes that point that opponents of George Bush need not trim out sails to the political wind of the moment just because it seems to being blowing in his direction. (Note: At this moment, this article is the most emailed article on The Washington Post.)