Political Thoughts

The election for President is less than 2 weeks away and I have some thoughts about the process.

There are a lot of differences between Republicans and Democrats. But one I find amazing is the drive by Republicans to fix the electoral process to their advantage. When they lost the Presidency to Obama they made it a mission to suppress votes and purge the voting rolls of people who's only offense was voting for Obama. But they couched it as "fighting voter fraud." There has been virtually no voter fraud in the past 10-15 years. This was found to be the case when investigated by the George W. Bush administration. Don't like the way people vote? Maybe change your puritanical platforms to something that isn't the 1950's model.

Liberals would never monkey with voting because we see the world with a live and let live attitude. Being liberal is about seeing more ways to think than just your own.

The electoral college should be abolished. When the creators of the government came up with voting 240 years ago, they put in place a way to insure the elections did not go horribly wrong. In their view they had people voting who were, in many cases, illiterate voting, and they thought the way to control the outcome was to create an electoral college. Ok. That was 240 years ago. Thing is we then get situations like Bush v. Gore in 2000 when Gore won the popular vote and Bush was handed the electoral vote by the Supreme Court. It's an old method and should be abolished. The Electoral College makes some states hugely important, and others are ignored. So presidential candidates inundate Ohio and Florida but never go to Montana. Be thankful you don't live in a battleground state.

I don't understand the conservative drive to make their morals the morals of the country. And what I find very funny is the hypocrisy in the conservative party. There is a family values congressman from Tennessee who is anti abortion. He was taped in a phone conversation with his mistress talking about her getting an abortion and why she hadn't done it yet. What an asshole. His false hypocritical piety should make people vote against him. Though when most sex scandals happen in the conservative party, it involves men and other men or boys, not women. Why the urge to repress everyone with legislation when they cannot contain their own urges?

Rape. Rape. Rape. Lately the conservatives have been getting into trouble with rape and foot in mouth disease. They say things like a woman can't get pregnant from rape. You really haven't had any education about biology it seems. You have to be a fucking idiot to think rape can't fertilize an egg. And then this leads to stupid comments from them about abortion. Abortion shouldn't be allowed in cases of rape, incest, or life of the mother. Um, fuck you. Abortion is legal. It doesn't matter what your view of it is, it's legal. Does it make any sense to you , if the mother dies, doesn't the fetus go down with the ship, as it were? Idiots.

As far as rape goes, those who say the woman should be forced to carry it to term, what would they say if it were their daughter or wife who was raped by someone they don't share a skin tone with? Is that make a lemons out of lemonade situation for them? Or would they be at a clinic to get that fetus removed? "Sorry, dear, sorry you were raped and brutalized, but God wanted you to have this child." Bullshit. Hypocrites!

Until men can have babies they should have no say in what happens to a woman's body. If men could get pregnant there would probably be a abortion clinic on every corner like a Starbucks.

There is a certain NYC real estate mogul who is a clown. He's a huckster with an irrational hatred of a black president. He has been on a witch hunt for birth certificates  and college transcripts and other documentation. Why? Obama's black. This racist mogul can't deal, like so many others in the conservative world, with a black president. That office belongs to rich white men only. His big announcement yesterday was an extortion plot. "I'll give $5 million to a charity of the President's choice if he releases his college transcripts. Fuck, G.W. Bush should have given those up. He didn't earn his way into Yale, he was a legacy.

Can we vote now?

I'll rant more later.