Tammy Baldwin, the Right's latest monster.

Tammy Baldwin, the Right's latest monster.

Ms. Baldwin has made no secret of her lesbian lifestyle. She is a vocal supporter of gay pride and the LGBT community. She told the liberal Huffington Post that her Senate candidacy is historic. Ms. Baldwin stressed that “breaking through these glass ceilings has a ripple effect.” In other words, her election would—and should—encourage other avowed gays and lesbians to enter high office. She sees herself as the tip of the spear for the LGBT community—a relentless advocate for homosexual issues. She attacks traditional marriage. She led the fight to repeal the ban on gays openly serving in the military. She consistently assaults our Judeo-Christian heritage. [...] [...] Ms. Baldwin’s success so far has been due to her ability to mask her hard left-wing views. She is portraying herself as a moderate liberal. In fact, she is a radical feminist who champions gay marriage, abortion on demand, government-funded contraception and war on religious freedom. She is the Sandra Fluke of Wisconsin politics—a postmodern socialist who wants government to underwrite birth control pills and homosexual unions. Ms. Baldwin is the antithesis of the working-class liberalism embodied by Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. [...] Mr. Thompson is a Catholic. He does not wear his faith on his sleeve, yet he should confront Ms. Baldwin about her socialist feminism. Wisconsin’s electorate needs to know just how far out of the mainstream she really is. The last thing they need is Barney Frank in a dress.

This is what desperation on the Right stinks like. Here's the apoplectic at the prospect of Democrat Tammy Baldwin winning a Senate seat in Wisconsin and urging Tommy Thompson to make Baldwin's sexual orientation the issue of the campaign.That's just a small smattering of the vile stuff thiscolumnist committed and the paper chose to publish. Suffice it to say, thebelieves having an openly gay senator will mean the end of civilization as we know it. Or perhaps just having a lesbian senator.

It's a credit to the people of Wisconsin that they don't seem to give a shit about Baldwin's homosexuality and it hasn't been an issue. But this national paper is trying to make it one. Is Thompson desperate enough to follow their lead?

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