I never voted for Ronny… (OK, the first time I was too young, the second time the Young Republicans at Penn State somehow managed to “misplace” EVERY voter registration form that wasn’t checked Republican, even though they were collecting them under the non-partisan banner of helping the students get a sympathetic person on boro council…) Surprised? Yes, I was once young and idealistic… Then I started asking questions when stuff didn’t add up. MOST of the people I THOUGHT were heroically trying to change things for the better back then, I have since discovered are actually so full of sh#t their eyes are brown. …Much like Obama, the biggest “change” they REALLY wanted to make was to have THEIR butts installed in the seats of power. BTW, I was only dumb enough to vote for Shrub ONCE. (Which, sad to say, was pretty much because the only other choice was somebody I liked even LESS) The second time I was in the hospital having a tracheostomy, but would have voted for a DOG if it had run AGAINST him. (I often wondered what John Heinz would have thought of some of the stuff coming out of his widow’s mouth tho…)
One of my biggest pet peeves is when people react on blind predjudices. Oh, people claim to be “enlightened” and don’t do it as much based upon skin color anymore (besides the fact that you can’t get away with THAT unless you’re a minority or female expressing one against our “society run by old rich white men”). Now they do it based upon even dumber minor philosophical differences… Like dismissing things they don’t happen to agree with as “spin” or “garbage”.
Then there are the hypocrites. Funny how all those Hillary supporters who kept saying “It’s time for a woman!” took one look at Sarah Palin, WITHOUT knowing that much about her, and said “But not THAT one” and then went digging for crap to justify their pre-formed opinions (But when I said that about Hill, because I’d had enough of her BS the FIRST time around I was being “sexist”, though…hmmm).
I also abhor the radical fringe on BOTH sides. I’m not sure which is worse, those who cynically foment class warfare against those who are BETTER off than the voter is…or those who do it against those who are less… The radical left hi-jacked the Dummycratic party in the 60’s, the radical right did the same to the Repuglicans in the 90’s. “Compromise” has become a dirty word even though neither side holds that patent on stupidity, stubbornness, or avarice. Cynically blaming the OTHER side for the mess the country is in instead of honestly admitting they helped get us there too is only a symptom of a larger disease. My Gram says “Always remember, when you point your finger at someone else, three of them are pointing back at you.”
Methinks it past time we hold ALL pollies, regardless of ideology to the same standards. Mind how high you set the bar, though, or even Jesus himself couldn’t get elected… remember, HE had an “anger management problem” (for example, why curse a TREE simply for not having fruit on it out of season?), didn’t hold down a “real” job much of his adult life and urged others to walk away from theirs, hung out with harlots and tax collectors, trashed other people’s property, then ended up between two thieves convicted of treason…
Actually, one of the things I LIKE about both McCain, and Palin is they have been “equal opportunity” pollies… they’ve managed to pi## off people in BOTH parties trying to do what they thought was right.
