Thoughts on Ken Mehlman | Michael Tomasky

I do feel a degree of sympathy for Ken Mehlman, the former RNC chair who finally announced today that he's gay (another shocking newsflash: Brett Favre is a prima donna!).

Say you're young. You love politics. You want to work in politics. And say you study up on politics and history, and you decide that you like your taxes low, your enterprise private, your patriotism 200 proof and so on. You're a conservative. Fine.

Then you grasp that you're gay. The conservative movement is in part...