Conservatives.........stop already with the moralizing!

If Mike Huckabee wants to be President, he's going to have to avoid Dan Quayle moments....

From USMagazine -- “[O]ne of the things that’s troubling is that people see a Natalie Portman who boasts, ‘We’re not married but we’re having these children and they’re doing just fine,” Huckabee told Michael Medved. “I think it gives a distorted image. It’s unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out-of-wedlock children.”

Two points:

One - Huck is right. Our cultural glorification of single parenthood has contributed to a shocking number of single-parent households and unwed mothers caring for children they alone cannot afford to raise. Single parenthood is the single biggest indicator for poverty. Greater than dropping out of high school or drug use. So culturally Huck is correct to question our celebration of single motherhood but.....and that brings me to point two.

Two - the amoral media and democrats will love to hit that hanging curve ball right out of the park, just like they did when Dan Quayle criticized Murphy Brown for the same thing. It may not be right, but that's political reality in America.

Any conservative candidate must stay as far away from morality and social issues as he can or his campaign will get bogged down defending what the media will portray as self-righteous moralizing, judgementalism, and hostility toward single parents. That's something democrats never have to defend because democrats are happily on the record as being amoral in general. I mean how can a party that defended Bill Clinton claim to be even slightly moral?

Moreover, there are bigger problems to solve in America than dopey Hollywood actresses having babies with men they are about to marry. If any of these guys has a chance of beating The One, they'll have to be careful to stay away from the social conservative agenda. Nobody cares about that stuff when their jobs are disappearing, taxes are being raised, cost of living is sky-rocketing, and lives being threatened by terrorists around the world.

The hostile media are going to bash these guys enough as it is, they don't need to hand them the bat to do it with.