ANCIENT TRUTHS BE DAMNED

David Gregory on Meet the Press [11/11/12] had a clip from the new Lincoln movie in which the Lincoln character quotes ancient wisdom about things being equal to other things are equal to each other. The scene depicted the Great Emancipator talking to aides about garnering votes on an anti-slavery issue. Lincoln’s point was that truths – mathematical in this instance – don’t change over time.

Must of the program’s discussion was on the recent election and how Republicans are too hidebound in their conservative beliefs. Panel members, nearly unanimously, agreed that the GOP had to change and embrace the social beliefs of the time. Those currently mean same-sex “marriage,” and by inference contraception and all that go with that, and Latino immigrants and their votes.

No one, including Gregory, noted that the values they want Republicans to abandon are ancient truths, such as the intrinsic value of the family that is based upon the marriage bond between one man and one woman. To the host and panel, conservative Republicans would never again gain enough votes to win without bowing to current mores.