When you go to polls this election day, remember this: only the 1.1% of Americans who make above $600,000/year have any defensible reason to vote for McCain. That’s right, I said it. Wanting to ban gay marriage? Not a legitimate reason to vote for McCain. Wanting to ban abortion? Also not acceptable. Want a flat tax? Are you stupid?
If you make below $225,000/year, your taxes will go down significantly. If you make above $600,000/year, your taxes will go up. Don't expect me to cry for you.
Since I heard about him, I have disliked Ron Paul. His past — not even that long ago — indicates that he is homophobic, wildy racist, and anti-Semitic. His claims of libertarianism are belied by his opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage, and gay rights generally.
EDIT: While Ron Paul claims that he doesn’t know who wrote those articles, they were published under his name, in his publication. Just as a magazine or a newspaper would have to take responsibility for the articles of those who write for it, so too is Ron Paul responsible for allowing the spread of hateful rhetoric and ignorance.
In fact, he says that he would have voted for the unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act and proposed the Marriage Protection Act (scroll to the end) which would have prohibited litigation pertaining to either the Defense of Marriage Act or itself. I maintain that his douchebaggery is not lessened by his opposition to the Federal Marriage Amendment, because he did so on the basis that it was too hard (“passing a constitutional amendment is a long,drawn-out process”) and that “liberal social engineers who wish to…redefine marriage will be able to point to the…amendment as proof that the definition of marriage is indeed a federal matter”.
In a Republican primary debate he sidestepped the issue of the injustice inherent in the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, saying that it’s a “decent policy”.
Lastly, he calls himself “strongly pro-life” and, in a sentence for which the term “logical clusterfuck” would be generous, he claims that “abortion leads to euthanasia”.
It should be no surprise, then, that he recently endorsed Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party candidate, a nutjob probably a step to the right of Strom Thurmond, and certified assclown. For those of you who don’t know, the Constitution Party claimsit wants to “uphold the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States” by returning American to its its “original Biblical common-law foundations”, persecuting gays, and making everyone believe in Jesus. (These are all quotes from their mission statement.)
This, sadly, only vindicates by original belief that Ron Paul is, was, and always will be an unrepentant racist, homophobic, hatemonger.
EDIT: For those who are unable to find the quotations to which I refer in the sources provided at first glance, please peruse the articles and speeches carefully and you will discover exactly that to which I refer. Thank you.
Note: both edits were done at 6:45 PM EST on Oct 26.
I feel like this picture pretty accurately captures the Republican arguments that Sarah Palin isn’t ridiculously under-qualified to be vice-president (or, honestly, president — she’s a cheeseburger away from the presidency).
Quite frankly, it is disturbing that the GOP counts looking at another country as foreign policy experience. If that’s the case, then I should be an ambassador. I was in Canada once!
It has also recently come out that, apparently, mayors in Alaska don’t have…well…real responsibilities. Basically, the mayor in Wasilla is in charge of the library, the police department, and the fire department.
And, during Palin’s tenure as Wasilla’s mayor, she fired the police chief under questionable circumstances and the town, unlike every other town in Alaska, made rape victims pay $8,000 for rape kits. Quite frankly, this practice is unconscionable, but not out of line with her belief-set at large. Sarah Palin is probably amongst the most anti-women’s rights politicians I’ve heard of in a while, opposing abortion even in cases of rape or incest.
