“Conservatives say they revere both traditional and market values. But those two sets of values so often contradict each other that conservatives have to cover their eyes…if they are to pretend to be consistent. What is the most powerful force for permissiveness in the United States? It is not liberalism. It is the free market’s use of sexuality to sell products.”
- Columnist E.J. Dionne Jr., discussing the Senate candidacy of beer baron Pete Coors, who was attacked by opponents in the Colorado Republican primary for “ads that are degrading to women and nearly pornographic.”
Source: The Washington Post
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