But that's not really true.

In a recent article, Sarah Palin asks, "Are You Capable of Decency, Rahm Emanuel?" The answer is clearly "No", but I take issue with Sara Palin's outrage over Rahm Emanuel using the word, "retarded" in the context he did.

I am a huge Sarah Palin supporter and am very disturbed by Rahm Emanuel. I think he is pure evil and would say or do anything to gain and hold power over people. Exactly the wrong type of person to have in charge of anything. However, I think in this instance Sarah may be a little too sensitive. While I understand her position completely, I don't support it in this narrow case.

The word "retarded" has become a bit of a hot-potato. A pure dictionary definition of the word Retarded means in essence, "to slow, hinder, or prevent advancement." That's why it was originally used to label individuals with cognitive or developmental disabilities. However it can also simply mean to slow down. For instance, as I approach a stop light, I retard the throttle of my car. That doesn't mean that I gave my car's throttle a, "cognitive and developmental" disability.

That said, we all know exactly what Rahm Emanuel meant. He was using the word "retarded" as a euphemism; as in, "Don't be retarded".

I grow weary of the left crucifying conservatives over these silly things and do believe that turnabout is fair-play. I am so tired of the stunning double-standard that excuses people of the left from saying whatever they want because they, "think right", while conservatives get skewered for much smaller infractions. However fun it may be to throw a fistful of gander back at that goose, it is inevitably a waster of time. It's much more useful to focus on real issues and not get mired in the minutiae.

Besides, calling each other, "retarded", or "gay" is just something men do. We are coarse and unrefined. We laugh at inappropriate things, all the time. We watch awful television shows like Squidbillies, Family Guy, and South Park, and our wives roll their eyes and don't get it. We think Hooter's has good food, though no single man has ever actually tasted anything he ate at a Hooter's. We hock lugies, we prefer to pee outside, we spit, and we are retarded when we are around each other and no one else is looking, although some of us are retarded when others are looking. By the way I don't know that guy. If you say he is related to me in any way, I'll call you a liar. We are who we are, and to try to feminize us, is bad for society, but I digress.

Without regard to the fact that Democrats are indeed retarded, this whole dustup is really, kind of gay.