For the record, Elaine is no “newbie.” (A condescending label, perhaps?) She’s been here for years. She just doesn’t comment often, though certainly a lot more often than I.

You’re a great writer and a great asset to the cause; that’s why I took you to task, because what you did in the Judd post is something you seem to be doing more and more often — like the emo boy who posted a youtube video about his coming out, like the Bill Schmalfeldt stuff, — you say mean things just to be mean and elicit chuckles from the regulars. It’s all in good fun…

Yukking it up over someone’s personal tragedy and making sweeping generalizations about everyone who’s in the same boat is cheap and cruel — just ask the Santorums. You’re better than that, or at least I thought you were.

When you write about the sanctity of life, you’re profound and your arguments sway people. My position on abortion has evolved over time, and your posts put me squarely in the pro-life camp. That’s the kind of writing we need more of, Stacy. That’s where you can do the most good.

I’m not being a concern troll,and I probably got angrier than I should’ve and escalated things more than I should’ve. I’m sorry for that. I realize you’re a decent guy.

AFAIK, Rick Santorum and his family never went out of their way to publicize their daughter’s medical condition for their own benefit, neither did they attempt to hide it. But even if they had, mocking the child would be out of bounds.

I see a stark difference in Judd’s situation: her infertility and problems related to it could have remained completely private. When movie stars publicize such things, it is a calculated move to gain sympathetic publicity. But once you open Pandora’s Box, so to speak, the results are unpredictable and uncontrollable.

Judd and her defenders want to have it both ways, not just on this narrow issue, but on everything. She doesn’t want to be held accountable or mocked for her many statements over the years which were quite certain to curry favor with the Left, either.

Too freakin’ bad.

The Santorums wrote about the infant they lost; the left cruelly mocked them for it.

So, yeah… it doesn’t matter if Judd (or Mrs. Santorum) put it out there; it’s still crass to take advantage of it. Again, you don’t get to be offended on behalf of the Santorums or the Palins if you are busily making fun of Judd. It’s about treating everyone the same — our side, their side, bystanders. If we can’t do that, then we don’t deserve to lead.

We demand photographic proof!

Please, Stacy, don’t start apologizing for every little thing.

Never apologize, never explain.

Commenters can smell fear and will become ravening hordes.

Sorry, I’ve watched the left try and succeed using every dirty trick in the book and making some up as they went along.

They have far more outlets to perpetrate their propaganda and perfidy on the unsuspecting and ignorant.

Frankly I refuse to be constrained by some medieval sense of fair play and chivalry that inevitably leads to having our asses beaten time and time again.

You can play by all the rules you want to and keep losing. I’m more than ready to throw the same crap they dish out on a daily basis just to stay even.

You may enjoy a sense of superiority to them and to me but you’ll still lose the argument or race.

In street fighting, there are no rules. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either dead or a bloody pulp on the ground.

Stacey, if you want to refer to me specifically feel free. This is the Internet, not beanbag.

You are absolutely right and in my original comment, I should have noted that there are many reasons why a woman over 30 could be both single and conservative. I definitely did not mean to imply that it’s all just because it’s hard to find decent men; there are many, many reasons why a woman would choose the single life.

The real point I wanted to make was that it is entirely possible to be 1. single 2. female and 3. conservative. I also wanted to point out that Ashley’s so-called feminist icons are complicit in turning women into sex objects and equating liberation with being treated like piece of meat. There’s a lot of irony there when you consider Ashley was more than happy to shed her clothes for money and fame in her prime. Now she bitches about a mythical “patriarchy” being to blame when in fact, she was a willing participant the “objectification” (to use her term) of women.

Anyway, Stacy it was a great post and I share your disgust for Ashley Judd, so no need to apologize to me. I just wanted to express an opinion based on my own personal experience.

Keep up the excellent work!

“… Pandora’s box …” Ewww, no amount of brain bleach can remove that from my shriveled cerebellum …

Is that smell FEAR?

I assumed CJ had farted.

Speaking of beanbags, have you seen Ashley Judd’s butt lately?

It’s not enough to be better than they are we must be better AT it than they are.

So is RSM becoming a cheese eating apology monkey? Say it ain’t so!

I saw nothing wrong with using her own PR against her. If that offends people, so be it.

Yeah Mac, you do tread close to the line and occasionally swerve across, but so what. Most internet writers and commentors cross that line on occasion (I know I do), it’s the nature of the beast when you rarely/never see your opponent face to face. Human nature is a bitch and the libs have no problem letting their inner asshole shred enemies of the collective. As for me, I’d like to restart the neutron bomb program and relieve Shitcago of it’s resident progressive hive in an updated version of Mrs. O’leary’s cow.

Oops!… There I go again.

Stacy, now we demand photographic proof. Better bring an extra fedora.

I have one of my own. I’ve been wearing them since my twenties.

I managed to cause people to perceive that this specific criticism might also generally apply to others who are in fact, friends and allies in the fight.

The lovely Little Miss Attila does not have children. I’m in my thirties, unmarried, and childless. A Conservative Lesbian is unwed, un-civil-unioned, un-commitment-ceremonied, and childless. Nevertheless, I did not take your comments personally, but did want to point out that there is no principled difference between Judd’s childlessness and my own. (Well, she may be post-abortive, and I’m not, but that would be it.)

My one problem with Judd’s state of motherhood is that she went through fertility treatments and supports abortion. The cognitive dissonance is amazing. Likewise amazing is that she never thought, “Wow, if one girl out there in America would choose life, I would raise her child with so much love and such a great home.” (No, I don’t think that young, unfortunate women ought to breed for the sake of wealthy middle-aged women who want babies, but it is nice to point out the myth of “what would we do with all those babies without abortion?”)

As I keep saying, my large problem with Ashley Judd is that she was ridiculously, unbelievably sexy when she was young, and she was happy to capitalise on that, to take movie roles that would never be given to an older woman. Her entire career was built on her looks; her fame is because of her looks. Now she doesn’t want to be judged on her looks. Ugh.

Once again, Roxe cuts through the clutter.