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CLAYTON CRAMER ON HARRY REID?S CAMPAIGN TO END PROSTITUTION IN NEVADA: ?Remember when people called?

By Glenn Reynolds

CLAYTON CRAMER ON HARRY REID’S CAMPAIGN TO END PROSTITUTION IN NEVADA: “Remember when people called Harry Reid?s opponent a crazy right-wing religious fanatic? Now Senator Reid says that Nevada should prohibit prostitution in the rural counties that still allow it ? and his reasoning makes me wonder who is paying him to push this. . . . What always causes me to shake my head in disbelief is how strongly the Democratic Party imagines Republicans as a bunch of Puritans about to sew scarlet letters on the clothes of today?s Hester Prynnes. I can see a legitimate argument about whether prostitution should be legal. What I can?t see is why one of the most prominent leaders of the Democratic Party is making this argument ? and making it on such astonishingly moralistic grounds.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 27, 2011 (boomark / email).