Recent Posts
  Has the Rainbow Flag Become Too Gay?
  Five Years Ago Today
  'Hate Crimes' Justice
  'Ex-Gay' in San Francisco
  Concerned Women for America: God's Army?
  ... and Lesbian Birds
  Sunday Read
  Merry Christmas!
  Bishop Cecil Riley on Homosexuality
  YMCA 'Restores Integrity' after Tranny Brawl
  Southern Baptists Struggle to 'Preserve Unity'
  Alabama State Rep. Gerald Allen Speaks
  Tafel on a Tear
  'Safe Space' Stickers Cross the Line
  Criminal Hate Speech
  HRC By The Numbers
  Rites of Passage
  What Would Jesus Do?
  Comments
  Equality In The States

Grantham Categories
  "W" is For Wackos  (40)
  2004 Debates  (32)
  Barnyard  (1)
  Campaign Madness  (41)
  Catastrophic Success  (33)
  Coming Out  (12)
  Email  (4)
  Equal Marriage Rights  (50)
  Exclusives  (17)
  Fact Check  (2)
  Flip-Flops  (11)
  For The Record  (51)
  Free Speech  (28)
  Fuzzy Math  (6)
  Gay Vague  (1)
  Gay Vote  (14)
  Internet Regulation  (1)
  Media  (49)
  Moral Majority  (61)
  Political Subterfuge  (38)
  Polls  (35)
  Scandal  (26)
  Sunday Read  (16)
  White House Press Briefing  (15)

Grantham Archives
  December 2004
  November 2004
  October 2004
  September 2004
  August 2004
  July 2004
  June 2004
  May 2004
  April 2004
  March 2004
  February 2004
  January 2004
  December 2003
  November 2003
  October 2003

Links

  Vote for this blog
  Blogroll Me!

op-ed
Christian Grantham was a student activist in the late 90s and later was a consultant to domestic policy forums for the Clinton Administration as well as events for HRC and GLAAD.

  latest posts

Angry Republican Cynicism

July 29, 2004

Tom Shales, of the Washington Post, gives voice today to conservative cynicism in his column "Too Nice For Their -- and Our -- Good."

And the Democrats' namby-pamby decision to go positive -- not to attack the arguably very, very vulnerable administration of George W. Bush -- has put a pall of niceness over the proceedings that, try as they might, cranky-minded TV commentators haven't done much to dispel.

The only thing cheerleading negativity more between the two candidates for President is the nearly two-thirds of the $70.5 million spent directly by the Bush-Cheney campaign.

filed under: