Apparently Estase is what's wrong with the Republican Party. Mitt Romney decided to run on economic issues, was cagey about touching any social issue, and allowed the Salon types to depict him as the ultimate selfish rich guy. So why the Primrose League thinks I am the problem mystifies me. My dream candidate was Rick Santorum, whom most of the party couldn't wait to kick to the curb. But, as Disraeli said, "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party!" And, "Damn your principles, stick to your party!" The thing I'm wondering is why the Primrose League ran a values-free election, and is now blaming values voters for their defeat? It kind of strikes me as unfair. The Romneyites told us that they knew best, that they alone could win, yadda yadda yadda. And now, it isn't their fault, that a President whose handling of the economy has been atrocious defeated a candidate who ran only on the economy. Estase feels like he just walked into a black tie affair wearing a polyester leisure suit from 1975. The problem is, the polyester leisure suit from 1975 is going to be all anyone can afford by 2016.
With a tip of the petasus to William Oddie at CatholicHerald.uk, one of my favorite historians apparently has clay feet. Oddie reports that Eamon Duffy is defending a scholar named Tina Beattie, whose invitation to speak at the University of San Diego has been rescinded based on her support for gay marriage. The thing that is either odd or not odd (depending on your opinion of Cardinal Newman) is that Duffy is quoting Newman on the importance of having heretics speak at Catholic colleges. Mr. Oddie claims Newman was a conservative, which is 180 degrees from John Cornwell, who did a recent biography of J.H. Newman--a book I would never have read simply because the fevered mind that produced Hitler's Pope created it. Not being a Newman scholar, I will hope Oddie is correct. Duffy, on the other hand, created the must-read book for anyone with even a passing interest in the so-called Reformation (which might have been called the Great Religious Tinkering) in his The Stripping of the Altars. Bravo, Mr. Oddie.
With a tip of the petasus to William Oddie at CatholicHerald.uk, one of my favorite historians apparently has clay feet. Oddie reports that Eamon Duffy is defending a scholar named Tina Beattie, whose invitation to speak at the University of San Diego has been rescinded based on her support for gay marriage. The thing that is either odd or not odd (depending on your opinion of Cardinal Newman) is that Duffy is quoting Newman on the importance of having heretics speak at Catholic colleges. Mr. Oddie claims Newman was a conservative, which is 180 degrees from John Cornwell, who did a recent biography of J.H. Newman--a book I would never have read simply because the fevered mind that produced Hitler's Pope created it. Not being a Newman scholar, I will hope Oddie is correct. Duffy, on the other hand, created the must-read book for anyone with even a passing interest in the so-called Reformation (which might have been called the Great Religious Tinkering) in his The Stripping of the Altars. Bravo, Mr. Oddie.
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