GOOD FOR UNCLE ALAN SIMPSON

Former GOP Senator Alan Simpson was on HARDBALL last night and let the Fundies have both barrels. His comments were reported by Mediaite and Fats Limbaugh so I expected to find some attacks on Simpson from right-wing blogs but there's nothing so far.

Here's what Alan said:

SIMPSON: I don‘t know, but if we‘re going to get into social issues, we won a governorship—and I saw them saying that they‘d seen Christie—

I mean, I saw him a few weeks ago. He is quite awesome. But we won a governorship there in New Jersey, one in Virginia by not talking about social issues. Who the hell is for abortion? I don‘t know anybody running around with a sign that says, Have an abortion, they‘re wonderful. They‘re hideous. But they‘re a deeply intimate and personal decision, and I don‘t think men legislators should even vote on the issue.

Then you‘ve got homosexuality. You‘ve got “Don‘t ask, don‘t tell.” We have homophobes in our party. That‘s disgusting to me. We‘re all human beings. We‘re all God‘s children. Now, if they‘re going to get off on that stuff—Santorum has said some cruel things, cruel, cruel things about homosexuals. Ask him about it. See if he attributes the cruelness of his remarks years ago—foul.

Now, you know, that‘s the kind of guys that are going to be on my ticket, you know, makes you sort out hard what Reagan said, you know, Stick with your—stick with your folks. But I‘m not sticking with people who are homophobic, anti-women, you know, moral values while you‘re diddling your secretary while you‘re giving a speech on moral values. Come on. Get off of it.