Sarah Palin did more to bring down corrupt politicians in her own party before she became governor than Barack Obama has done in his party, indeed in both parties, in his entire political career.

As readers of this blog know, I frequently take issue with the various gay groups’ obsession with the notion of “equality.”  In the last century, we saw how many advocates of this ideal sought to enforce it through the heavy hand of the state through regulations which limit the freedom of private enterprises and even individuals.

Reading today in the the latest collection of the Gipper’s writings,The Notes: Ronald Reagan’s Private Collection of Stories and Wisdom, I caught this note which gets at my discomfort with all this “equality” rhetoric:

The real Am[erican] idea is not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that every man shall have the liberty without hindrance to be what God made him. The office of gov[ernmen]t is not to confer happiness but to give men the opp[ortunity] to work out happiness for themselves.

The policy, it would seem, would then be to eliminate laws which constrain our freedom rather than to enact ones which (supposedly) ensure our equality.

UPDATE:  In the very next notecard quoted in the book, the Gipper takes on equality more directly, citing Edmund Burke:

A perfect equality will indeed be produced — that is to say equal wretchedness, equal beggary, and on the part of practitioners a woeful, helpless and desperate disappointment.  Such is the event of all compulsive equalizations.  They pull down what is above; they never raise what is below; they depress high & low together, beneath the level of what was originally the lowest.

“How long,” Michelle Malkin asks,”before Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner conducts his next meltdown press conference flanked by two adult-movie ‘goddesses’ a la Charlie Sheen? Like the delusional bad-boy actor, Weiner actually thinks his self-destructive act is ‘winning‘, too.”

And why boast (falsely as it turns out) that he has more Twitter followers than Paul Ryan?  It’s almost as if his whole game now is about getting media exposure (well, not quite).

I had dinner last night with a friend who routinely votes Democrat and even he had trouble believing his fellow partisan from the Empire State.

Mr. Weiner is not acting like he has nothing to hide.  Indeed, it’s almost as he believes making a spectacle of himself will keep people’s eyes riveted on the locked door to the closet where he keeps his secrets.  If they keep looking at that door, he wants to believe, they won’t want to know what inside because it’s locked, you see.  You know, like that scene in Star Wars where C-3PO and R2-D2 hide from the stormtroopers in Mos Eisley.

If he were indeed innocent of the charges leveled against him, he would:

1. Say in plain and simple terms that he didn’t send the tweet in question
2. Call for an investigation to see who had hacked his Twitter account
3. Remain silent until said investigation was complete.