You lost me at the lamp thrower.

"The political left NEVER discusses its moral views with children"

I only wish that were true.
The left loves to indoctrinate children into their morals.
Abortion is good.
Not giving everything you have to the govt is bad.

"This sentence is contradictory!"

That sentence displays ignorance of the level of sarcasm deployed by the individual (me) to whom you responded.

But, thanks for bolstering, in a round-about way, that the left pushes their views onto children on a daily basis. If not, there'd be nothing contradictory about what I wrote.

In case you missed it, that was the point of my supposedly "contradictory" sentence.

A great non sequitur. I think she ought to champion missile defense--it won't matter how healthy our kids eat if we all get nuked, right?

Bill Cosby.
Chris Rock.
Kat Williams (to a degree).

I'm sure there are others.

I doubt that.

A lot of Republicans have this delusion that if only politicians (of all people) preach about the value of marriage, that people who are having difficulty in their relationships or having difficulty finding a decent partner will be much more incentivized to do so.

You see, having politicians, like Rick Santorum, preaching about certain social issues is like a magical elixir that will transform society.

In truth, of course, this is all a bunch of wishful thinking. We don't live in an ideal world, and we never will live in an ideal world.

But that doesn't stop conservatives. Their argument is: if only we lived in an ideal world, we wouldn't need to use government to help solve social problems. Instead of actually working to solve problems, we need a President who preaches at us!

That this approach is doomed to failure and amounts to nothing more than wishful thinking while being fatally infected by unintended consequences has not stopped Rick Santorum from basing his entire campaign on the supposed power of the President as a preacher rather than a problem solver.

Remember what he said. "You know, here's the difference between me and the left, and they don't get this. Just because I'm talking about it doesn't mean I want a government program to fix it."

In other words. Rather than concrete actions to actually solve problems, all we need is preaching from whoever is President to transform us morally. This is delusional, but it is exactly what many Republicans believe.

Do you even empathize with anyone or think for a split second before writing this stuff? Let's stop and think. This recession has hit the younger generation the hardest. The unemployment rate in this country for 18-24 is something way over 15%. That doesn't even account for the massive underemployment The work a lot of young people are getting is simply terrible and low paying because wages have been stagnant against inflation for 30 years while the cost of college (student loans anybody), health care, gasoline, and every other basic staple has exploded. Combine this with the complete collapse in lending especially for houses and postulate how exactly young people in this country are supposed to create new households through marriage? Unless of course you want to advocate the new norm of starting new marriages at mom and dad's house which hasn't been done in Western Civilization since before the middle ages? Perhaps a bride price or a dowry might also help the young couple get started? Lets put a monetary figure on our family values and let the market decide!

Here's the facts Rich. The divorce rate among young people is down almost a quarter from it's peak in the 80's and still declining. The younger generation values marriage more than their parents or grandparents ever did because they know, first hand, what it does to people, especially to kids, because they were those kids. So please spare me and everyone under thirty the lecture. They lived it.

But then you choose to mix your profound ignorance with active malice by attacking the first lady for addressing the national health emergency of obesity that costs this country billions and affects nearly three quarters of the American population. She's out there doing something that tries to help people and all you can do is sit on the sidelines doing virtually nothing by comparison and booing and saying you could have done better. Tell us all, please, what other charitable works do you think could be done better. Perhaps Mother Teresa was merely an amateur and needed the assistance on the great Rich Lowry?

Seriously, just plain wrong on more levels than I care to count.