“Common sense” insists on a clarity, simplicity and directness that just don’t exist in the world; those who speak of it can’t see, and so don’t respect, the complexity in social issues, which are, to them, without nuance or shades of gray.

As Sarah continues to troll in public, her use of those terms will increase and she, and the public she attracts, will believe that they actually know something.

They ought to recall, however, that “common sense” once had the sun going around the Earth, and the Earth flat. You could look out and see that it was true; it was common sense.

I know there is a conservative tradition of a less intrusive government, but there’s also a conservative vision of conserving, in large part, the status quo.

That’s why, in my mind, allowing gay marriage is a squarely liberal idea t hough I’m glad there are conservatives on board too. :D I grant that there is the conservative idea of preventing government intrusion which could support the idea of gay marriage, and it could be argued that the conservation of the institution of marriage is achieved if we tweak it and open it up to LGBT. Thus far, though, the majority of self-proclaimed conservatives would deny that the former two arguments fit into their understanding of conservatism.

You see, if Cho really considered Bristol Palin a “friend”, she wouldn’t have been so rude as to publicly state that Bristol was pressured into the show by some tyranical, calculating mother.

Bristol responded in a juvenile fashion– unsurprising considering her age. But Cho is old enough to know better than go gossip-mongering and making rude claims about family dynamics of her “friends”.