Surprise, surprise, surprise: Obama DoD finds that implementing a major Obama policy goal won't have a bad effect

The Volokh Conspiracy looks at the DoD Don't ask Don't Tell survey of active military members and concludes that it supports what he already believed:  that DADT repeal won't hurt.  He may be right, indeed I suspect he is.  But I am also cynical about such self serving ploys because:

When the Obama DoD publishes a survey on a policy change that is a major Obama policy goal and the results support that policy change, I smell a rat.

When it turns out that the vast majority of the survey population did not respond and that those who did knew that their responses could be tracked back to them, I smell an unwashed rat.

When I remember that ‘homophobia’ is held to be either a mental illness or grave moral failing by those who now control the DoD as well as most press and metropolitan elites I smell an unwashed, dead rat.

And when I reflect upon recent high profile firings of people who (quietly and privately) opposed the California Gay Marriage vote, I conclude that the rat is dead, maggot filled and stinks to high heaven.

Call me cynical but I just don’t trust our political, media and academic elites to play honest with an agenda item that they badly want. See “Global Warming”, “Tet Offensive is a huge US Defeat”, and “Iraq is Lost” for other examples. I personally don’t have a dog in this fight but it’s tough to do ‘progressive’ ‘reform’ when ‘progressives’ have such a bad reputation for manipulation and bias, isn’t it?

Howzabout playing the next one straight and seeing how THAT works?  Who knows?  People might actually believe what you say is true.