DeMint coulda smacked one out of the park on this issue

NYT columnist Frank Rich notes the eerie silence on the right over repealing DADT (Armed Services Committee member and JAG lawyer Lindsey Graham didn't even show up):

The more bigotry pushed out of the closet for all voters to see, the more likely it is that Americans will be moved to grant overdue full citizenship to gay Americans. It won’t happen overnight, any more than full civil rights for African-Americans immediately followed Truman’s desegregation of the armed forces. But there can be no doubt that Mike Mullen’s powerful act of conscience last week, just as we marked the 50th anniversary of the Greensboro, N.C., lunch counter sit-in, pushed history forward. The revealing silence that followed from so many of the usual suspects was pretty golden too.

Here in SC, it's telling that the only big swinging blogger talking about gay rights this past week was gay rights activist Will Folks, who insists he's for what he's against.

But then here in SC, the legislature is still debating crap John C. Calhoun peddled 175 y ears ago.