I have to admit, I was way wrong on DADT.  This was some serious Ninja diplomacy.  Just as a Friend of the Blog said, Obama's brief mention of lifting the ban has totally blown up into the lead story.  It helps that the military higher-ups are finally on-board.  Removing the onus from those lower down in the ranks is basically a de facto moratorium on the policy.  I mean, if only an admiral can sign off on a witch hunt, it isn't nearly as likely to happen.  You'd have to be a pretty big queen to get the Joint Chiefs on your ass — that's a lot of bling.  Not least because there's a level of acountability outside the ranks for the leadership that doesn't exist at lower levels.



Of course it was a calculated move on the administration's part.  Which is certainly not a problem — it is politics, after all — so long as they're not gonna throw us under the bus to divert attention from the budget, or something.  The old "Hey, lookit!  Drag Queens!"  trick.  Republicans fall for it every time.  But with the military leadership on-board, it looks like the administration could have their cake and eat it, too, as the budget slips by with hardly a snort of indignation from the gay-bashing GOP. 

Of course, the evil genius of it may also slip past many Demtards.  I was reading the Pew Trust's new "Public Knowledge" study (by way of the New York Times' Charles Blow), which found that legislative process is a mystery to many, not least registered Democrats.

In fact, the findings indicated that among Republicans, Democrats, and Independents*, Democrats' "political IQ" was the lowest — and significantly lower than Republicans'.  Dems lagged far behind in all indices Pew used to determine IQ, save one: they knew who Stephen Colbert was (and even there, they didn't beat out Republicans, but were tied).

Even if Pew's latest findings seem to contradict other studies that show that liberals tend to be more intelligent, this doesn't necessarily correlate to "political IQ".  As one commentator on Lazar Stankov's infamous '09 study “Conservatism and Cognitive Ability” reminded us:

[S]ocial conservatives do not always vote for conservative candidates.  Most black Americans, for example, clearly exhibit “the Conservative syndrome” as Stankov defined it—70 percent voted to abolish gay marriage in California—but they routinely give about 90 percent of their votes to the Democratic Party.

It's complicated, y'know?

But then no one said this Ninja business was easy.
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*Disclosure: I am registered "undeclared" and have been most of my adult life, although I routinely vote in party primaries, which is  allowed here in Massachusetts.