Going political today - vitriolic, too.

[monkeybard]

Want to meet the real Sarah Palin? Ask someone who knows.  Guess what, McCain, I'm not voting for the right-wing fanatical crazy woman just because she has a uterous, you sexist fuckwad.

ETA:  Oh!  Just got this link from NARAL, too.  How can anyone with a brain think the Republican leadership is anything but completely mad?  If I'd ever been a Republican in my life, I would feel horribly betrayed by my party leaders.  I'm not saying the Democratic Party is perfect--far from it.  (If I ran the universe...)  I am saying that at least Obama/Biden have SOULS and some sort of grasp on REALITY.

I'm more in fear for my state in this election, though, because it was so close between these same candidates last time.  Dino Rossi is a horrible human being and I fear too many people won't bother to check what his record looks like.  He's anti-choice, he's anti-marriage equality.  He's said he'll rollback the domestic partnership legislation we already have in place.  If he were elected governor ::shudder; horror:: he would plunge Washington State into a horrible retro-1950s type inequality state.  I'm sick to death of seeing his smarmy smile on television.  I'm sick to death of hearing all the bullshit ads on the radio.  He keeps talking about not raising taxes - standard Republican lies - without bothering to explain where else he expects to get money to do necessary things like fix the roads and pay emeregency response workers.  I am feeling the hate towards the man.  WAKE UP, WASHINGTONIANS!  Whether you like Gregoire or not, no intelligent, educated person can possible think this asshole would be better at her job.  Write in Bill the Cat for all I care, just DO NOT VOTE FOR THIS MAN.

(Yes it is all about "The horror!  The horror!" today.)

Comments

[jaunthie.livejournal.com]

I think you'd agree with the following editorial today for both races:

"But there’s another answer, which may be even more important: how a politician campaigns tells you a lot about how he or she would govern.

I’m not talking about the theory, often advanced as a defense of horse-race political reporting, that the skills needed to run a winning campaign are the same as those needed to run the country. The contrast between the Bush political team’s ruthless effectiveness and the heckuva job done by the Bush administration is living, breathing, bumbling, and, in the case of the emerging Interior Department scandal, coke-snorting and bed-hopping proof to the contrary.

I’m talking, instead, about the relationship between the character of a campaign and that of the administration that follows. Thus, the deceptive and dishonest 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign provided an all-too-revealing preview of things to come. In fact, my early suspicion that we were being misled about the threat from Iraq came from the way the political tactics being used to sell the war resembled the tactics that had earlier been used to sell the Bush tax cuts.

And now the team that hopes to form the next administration is running a campaign that makes Bush-Cheney 2000 look like something out of a civics class. What does that say about how that team would run the country?

What it says, I’d argue, is that the Obama campaign is wrong to suggest that a McCain-Palin administration would just be a continuation of Bush-Cheney. If the way John McCain and Sarah Palin are campaigning is any indication, it would be much, much worse. "

--Paul Krugman, NYT

[devinam.livejournal.com]

AMEN! Only, I'm not religious. so, uh...a hearty YES! A McCain/Palin administration truly frightens me. and there aren't very many things that truly frighten me. ;)

[sunkrux.livejournal.com]

While I'm not a fan of abortion as a form of birth control (face it there are a few women who use it like that) I do NOT want it to go back to the way it use to be, for anyone who needs or wants an abortion. Yes, please, I want to go back to the days when women died as a result of an abortion. ::rolleyes::

Yeah...Palin makes me want to slap her. The thing that turned me against Bush way back in 2000 was his "God wants this war" shit. Now Palin is spewing the same shit. No fucking thank you.

GGGAAAHHH! When will people in this country wake up? ::rolleyes::

[monkeybard]

As if the crashing economy wasn't enough to clue people in. Idiots. Country full of ignorant fuckwads, that's what we've got. I remember a bumpersticker from 2004 just after Bush stole the election:
Dear World,
We're sorry. We tried.
-Half of America.

[sunkrux.livejournal.com]

There was another one that one of the Metro Bus unions had. I think I still have it some where. Can't remember exactly what it said, but it was a slam against Bush so you KNOW I had to snag myself one.

Who knows when folks will wake up. They're too busy shoving their heads in the sand (or with some, further up their asses) pretending things aren't as bad as they are.

I tell folks I didn't vote for Bush so don't bitch at me.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the political arena! *hugs*

I can appreciate you focusing on this one particular "opinion" of hers; her refusal to consider the needs of her own child in case of rape is just chilling. No daughter should suffer for her mother's religious beliefs, let alone her mother's political ambitions.

But keep looking, and listening, and spreading the word. This ticket is dangerous on so many other levels, inexperience being the chief one. She believes that you can "pray away the gay", which I take intense personal offense at, and she believes that creationism and intelligent design should be taught *in science class as competing theories with evolution*, which sends my husband around the bend. They have been thoroughly (and legally) shown to be Christian-religion-based ideas masquerading as science. They are not science.

George Bush in a dress? Yes.

[devinam.livejournal.com]

i've been skeptical of everything i've read in print lately, but i did check out The Nation article credibility on Snopes.com...'struth. :)

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/sarahpalin.asp
in reference to gregoire/rossi, there's an article that summarizes their responses to interview questions on "the major issues", and it interested me to know that Gregoire is very much Catholic, and doesn't believe in abortion, YET she is wise enough to say that it doens't matter what she believes, the government should not be regulating whether or not abortions are legal. her it is, in case you haven't read it yet:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008169798_webissues10m.html

Right wing wackos give me the heebie jeebies. :\

I feel your pain.

[(Anonymous)]

Every time I think the electorate won't fall for another obvious hit job, I get disappointed.

My big race this year locally? Commissioner of Public Lands. The incumbent, Doug Sutherland, was caught sexually harrassing a woman in his department -- they ended up requiring sexual harrassment training for the whole department, and she left her job. His opponent, Peter Goldmark, is a rancher and molecular biologist who is really progressive. Plus, the Stranger endorsed him.

I'm telling everyone I know, vote for Peter Goldmark. It's not the sexiest of races, but I really want him to win.

K-B

[write-light.livejournal.com]

And don't forget this charming exchange about raped daughters (Palin on video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MybPhpEydZo

[monkeybard]

I'm afraid to click the link. The woman is a complete headcase. She has no fucking clue about reality and I hope her all her children turn out to be gay libertarian Buddists.