Tuesday, August 21, 2012

This Election has Become Surreal


I'm beginning to wonder if someone is putting powerful hallucinogens in the water of this country. It's seems like each day brings campaign news that sounds like something only Lewis Carrol would create. We have rethuglicans saying that they're the ones who will "defend Medicare" from Sober Panda Time, that "mean, angry man running a campaign of hate", who's somehow stealing from Medicare by saving it money over the next decade. See, it's really, really mean of Obama to point out when Willard Rmoney is lying (which is "always"), and also he's an evil Muslim who eats pork chops and brews beer in the White House.
Now Willard and Ayn Rand that spooky Catholic creep are also campaigning against women and sex. Really, they are. Beyond the Todd Akin "gaffe" of actually saying what most rethuglicans actually think, one need only look at their party platform. Full civil rights for all Zygotes, period. No abortion (or many forms of birth control), regardless of the circumstances of conception, including rape.
"I believe and I think that the right approach is to accept this horribly created, in the sense of rape, but nevertheless, in a very broken way, a gift of human life, and accept what God is giving to you." said Rick Santorum (the guy who came in second in the GOP craziness derby). Also, Ryan has repeatedly vowed to put Planned Parenthood "out of business".
Maybe I hang out with a different kind of woman, but the women I know enjoy sex, and are against forced pregnancy. You know; "normal". So it boggles my mind that the mega-millionaire and the mini-millionaire might actually win while campaigning against sex and for forced pregnancy. I'm not surprised that a Mormon and a Catholic would support misogyny; just that they might actually succeed.
I don't think I like whatever this drug is.

5 comments:

hotclaws said...

I'm scared by these nutbags

pygalgia said...

Yeah, but at least you're safely in Merry Olde England, which, while it has its own crazies, hasn't completely jumped the rails...

Fearguth said...

The crazies are the ones NOT taking hallucinogens. :)

Karlo said...

It must take a lot of work for the right-wingers to abstain from saying what they really think most of the time. Of course, even the most discipline party hack occasionally goofs up and starts voicing thoughts near a microphone.

Phil said...

The mind-numbing stupidity of dumber-than-a-doorstop conservatives is, well, mind-numbing. How do these turkeys get elected, anyway? Are there really that many people in the U.S. of A. making over $200,000 a year?