ricky's new book, "it takes a family," is an obvious cheap-shot attempt to position himself against hillary, whose book title, as i'm sure you recall, is "it takes a village."
it's a fake controversy: nobody denies families are good.
hillary's title—taken from an old african saying: "it takes a village to raise a child"—conveys the idea that the proper nurturing of children depends on the whole community, not just on families isolated from each other.
it's similar to "no man is an island" but comes from an ancient tradition rather than a metaphysical poet.
ricky's knee-jerk yet strangely calculated defense of family seems blissfully unaware of such subtleties.
he even criticizes the "village elders" of our society, by which he means the "liberal elitists," of course.
FLASH, rick: village elders are NEVER liberal. they are the embodiment of what conservatives have always valued more than any ideology, namely: tradition and experience.
but how would ricky-bot know that? he's a fake conservative doing what gop cons have done for 30+ years: build constituencies around conventional ideas—some traditional, others that the gop strategists assume will appeal to a majority, like their attempts to exploit tax cuts, school vouchers, gay marriage, social security, stem cells, terrorism, and terry schiavo.
Fake controversy indeed - like the "war on Christmas" and all the others. It's the mark of a party that has no ideas or ideals; at least none that it is willing to reveal.
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