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Fehrnstrom Sets Iowa Straight (So To Speak)

Eric Fehrnstrom, loyal Mitt Romney flack, has a guest column in the Des Moines Register sharing his wisdom on gay marriage -- wisdom gained during the gay-marriage wars in Massachusetts -- with Iowans who will soon be experiencing it for themselves. For gay-rights supporters who were in Massachusetts during those wars, it's a great read, in the punch-your-fist-through-the-screen-trying-to-throttle-that-lying-hypocritical-weasel sense of good reading.

Fehrnstrom begins with the sad news that, alas and alack, some extremists will polarize and hyperbolize the issue, rather than engaging in civili discourse. "The next few years will not be happy times for the Hawkeye state," Fehrnstrom laments. "The first casualty will be respect and tolerance for people on the other side."

Sigh. If only everyone had been as civil, respectful and tolerant as Fehrnstrom's boss....

Fehrnstrom then gets to the meat of his column, which is to lay out "the five biggest myths about gay marriage, based on the Massachusetts experience."

I'll let you read them for yourself, for maximum effect. And if you're really in one of those "ooh I hate that Mitt Romney!" moods, watch this Romney encounter with a dying MS sufferer, which I was recently pointed to.

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7 Comments

  • Rory Sullivan, Chelmsford MA said:

    I'm no Republican, but I just read Eric Fehrnstrom's op-ed and it seems that he put more thought into it than your petulant blog posts. What does marijuana legalization have to do with gay marriage? Why don't you keep this piddling BS to your facebook page?

    April 9, 2009 3:23 PM
  • Brock, FL said:

    Rory, I think Dave's just trying to continue Democrat gameplan against Romney in the primaries because he is their most-feared Republican, as evidenced not only by Howard Dean saying so, but by the record number of anti-Romney DNC press releases before his campaign went down thanks to the crowded Republican field adrift post-Bush, crossover voters, and conservative flanking from the cutlural right namely by the Huckabee forces.  

    April 9, 2009 5:34 PM
  • Matt said:

    David --

    Rory and Brock are on to you! They've discovered your alliance with Team Huckabee to undermine the single greatest political powerhouse in the history of the world!

    Abort mission!

    We'll regroup at Headquarters.

    April 9, 2009 5:53 PM
  • KB said:

    I just read Fehrnstrom's column. He seems reasonable. Why do you want to commit violence against him?

    April 9, 2009 9:14 PM
  • karen marie said:

    "Romney in the primaries because he is their most-feared Republican"

    i laughed so hard i spit coffee all over my keyboard.

    April 10, 2009 12:14 PM
  • Jed Merrill said:

    Mitt 2012!

    Congrats to Fehrnstrom on a well written op ed!

    And thank you for pointing it out to me.

    April 10, 2009 5:33 PM
  • Rob said:

    Hey, remember when Romney supported gay rights in 2002? Whatever happened to that guy?

    April 12, 2009 2:22 PM

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