Michelle Malkin meets Trop

Do you imagine a woman who has conservative political views, and who agrees with a lot of views of MM and her readers? Do you imagine a devoted mother? Do you imagine a person, perhaps like you, who came from humble roots, and is making it? I am from Hillary Country in PA (Johnstown PA, Rep Pork’s district) and I can’t stand the Clintons. I’m not a liberal by any stretch. I believe in family. And I agree with and believe in 90% of what you believe about family, the remaining 10% being our different views on what IS a family. I’m not trying to be smart and pull the “it depends on what *IS* is…

Just as you feel unjustly scorned, and your own marriage so scorned, by America’s poor performance in marriage, I feel unjustly scorned every time someone says “gay lifestyle.” You aren’t the heterosexual woman, putting her breasts on display for a string of beads at Mardi Gras. I’m not the militant lesbian sporting a mullet, wearing a wife-beater and a chip on her shoulder. I just want to be left alone to care for and support my family, through every legal means, like by providing my own health insurance. I don’t want government to provide it for me. That is the LAST thing I want. But I would appreciate being able to include my wife, my partner, in my insurance package, whatever the price. The problem is, that’s not an option here in Virginia on account of the law. That is, she cannot be included in a FAMILY policy. I want to take care of my family, but the laws make it HARDER for me to be responsible. So we have to buy a family policy to cover me and our daughter. And then we have to buy a single policy to cover my wife.

How does that make sense? How is that consistent with conservative principles like less government interference? And why is that such a threat to society, that I want to be able to provide for my family, so that no one else has to?