Ashton Kutcher’s tweet about Palin gives me food for thought

You already know that the New York Times and the Washington Post, apparently intent on proving that it is always possible to sink even lower, have asked for their readers to troll through the 24,000 or so emails that Sarah Palin generated while she was governor.  One only wishes that they had showed that kind of zeal for investigating actual presidential candidates, rather than expending all that energy on former vice presidential candidates.  Power Line also points out that, by law firm standards, this is a very small document production indeed.  It says something about the MSM’s decline that it is unable to handle this kind of thing on its own.

What you might not have caught, today being Sunday and all, is that Ashton Kutcher has come to Sarah Palin’s defense.  He tweeted the following to his almost 7 million followers:

As much as I’m not a fan of Sarah Palin I find sifting through her emails repulsive and overreaching media  #palinemail

I know absolutely nothing about Ashton Kutcher.  Really nothing.  I had to look him up on the internet, which revealed to me that he’s a very pretty actor, married to Demi Moore, and that he’s one of the biggest twitterers in existence.

I can speculate about one thing, though.  Looking at that tweet, I wonder whether he’s either a closet conservative, or is slowly wising up.  I say that because his tweet is typical of the comments I and fellow closeted conservatives leave on facebook.  After publicly disavowing being conservatives, we then say something . . . conservative.

In the beginning, I used this misdirection tactic because I was embarrassed to admit that I’d turned my back on the true faith of Progressivism.  Now I do it as a stealth maneuver.

If I were to say something conservative in nature, people would blast me instantly, without either bothering to think about what I said or to read the thoughtful article I might have linked to.  By prefacing my comment with a non-conservative statement, however, I get people to read and think about the core moral or political issue that lies at the heart of my facebook post.  My ultimate goal isn’t for people to think about me; it’s to get them to think about the issue.  And if I have to place a few red herrings across the trail, I will.

My instincts may be completely off about Kutcher.  Indeed, they probably are.  Still, I can’t shake the feeling that Kutcher’s one-liner is identical to what I might write — and that one sentence has the smell of stealth conservativism all over it.