One of those issues that makes the line of demarcation between those with Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome and those who cherish freedom and American sovereignty readily discernible

Let's start with the premise that he United Nations is irretrievably flawed and ought to be disbanded today.

But that, like much in this world that ought to happen to day, is not going to occur.

So we get initiatives like the UN Convention on Persons with Disabilities, a measure designed to chip away at member nations' sovereignty dressed up as a compassionate gesture no warm-blooded human being could argue with.

It's having a hard time getting sufficient traction for passage in the UN, but that's not stopping the US Senate from holding hearings on it.

And guess who digs it and wants the US to endorse it?  That's right, John McCain, Lisa Murkowski and at least three others who are poster children for Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome.  (The high hopes I once had for Kelly Ayotte are fading fast.)

An anonymous Pub aide lays out, in the context of this issue, the best description I've seen in some time of how the RGS microbe gains a foothold in the minds, hearts and characters of Pub office-holders:

Some Republicans privately agree that the treaty’s odds of passage are higher this time. One Senate Republican aide close to opponents of the treaty tells National Review Online that he thinks blocking ratification will be more challenging than it was last December, in part because of the shutdown.

“We have a lot of post-shutdown fatigue on the Republican side,” he says. “This is not the easiest issue to be out in front on being opposed to.”

He adds that some Republicans are tired of being perceived as contrarian and obstructionist. “That is my fear, that there’s a little bit of that,” he says.

Fear of being painted with a zeal for marginalizing disabled people.  That's what is causing some folks to float away from the mooring of their ostensible principles.

Fortunately, at least for now, it looks like the position of Jim Risch is the more prevalent:

Senator Jim Risch (R., Idaho), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and a vocal opponent of the treaty, says he finds the expanding influence of the U.N. to be problematic.

“I have been outspoken and critical of the ballooning reach of the United Nations into every aspect of our lives,” he says. “At the end of the day, this is a matter of national sovereignty for the United States and every other country in the world. We have sufficient problems right here in America to deal with without attempting to meddle in every aspect of the laws of other countries.” 

But this is how the FHers entice Pubs to not be afraid of their brains turning to mush and to be willing to be peeled off and enlisted in the Left's Great Leveling Project.