it's all right

"Twenty years ago, if you were to say to me that I'd be in a wheelchair, I'd be like 'Nah mate, it's all right. I'd rather go.'"

“Some of the things he says, it’s all right to say it at a bar with your buddies, but you don’t say that stuff out loud,” said Schofield, a 63-year-old chemical salesman.

Cheney—or, to use another currently newsy figure, John Kelly—serve as validators, providing reassurance to like-minded voters that it’s all right to support a Democrat.

“You ought to be nervous about the fact that we live in a society where some folks say it’s all right to give pornography to children,” he said to the congregation.

“I grew up in a hard-working family in East Texas — kind of a men-are-men environment where you just take it on the chin and keep going. But getting older, you step back and realize it’s all right to talk about this s—.”