Permit me to play one of my least favorite weapons, the equivalency card. Sorry in advance.
The Obama campaign recently released a video spot featuring Lena Dunham of Girls comparing her first time voting to, well, tee hee.
Predictably, Republican leaders and pundits got their chastity belts in an iron knot over this, saying a presidential candidate put his name on such filthy insinuation.
But the Party of Reagan (or at least the Party of the Idea of Reagan) overlooked that Ronald Reagan himself made a similar (but more explicit) version of the same joke in 1980. Oops!
Come to think of it, the equivalency card doesn't apply here. Last I checked, Lena Dunham isn't running for president and this isn't three days before the election.
Though it is equivalent in the sense that I'm fine with it in both instances because I'm not a hypocritical prude.
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