The Latest From Jesusland…Redneck Republicans Growing Their Corn Pone
12 October 2008 by KA
The black philosopher’s idea was that a man is not independent, and cannot afford views which might interfere with his bread and butter. If he would prosper, he must train with the majority; in matters of large moment, like politics and religion, he must think and feel with the bulk of his neighbors, or suffer damage in his social standing and in his business prosperities. He must restrict himself to corn-pone opinions — at least on the surface. He must get his opinions from other people; he must reason out none for himself; he must have no first-hand views. – Mark Twain: Corn Pone Opinions
If there’s a political party that is likely to receive a Darwin Award, it most definitely (in my mind) has to be the GOP. These retards keep bankrupting the country (From Regan to Bush and Clone Bush), they’ve done nothing but lead America into financial ruin. And in pursuit of what? Keeping the status quo static at all costs, turning back the clock to a fantasy time that never was, yearning and burning for a utopic society that marches in white picket fence synchronicity.
The latest and ‘greatest’ is more of the blithering idiocy from the ‘Governor next door’ (didn’t she do a fold-out pictorial in the Nome issue of Guns ‘N Ammo?’ No? Would be no shock if she had or did: the GOP is notorious for hypocrisy):
Palin heightens rhetoric on abortion
JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin charged into the culture wars Saturday in Pennsylvania, painting Sen. Barack Obama as a radical on abortion rights.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Saturday.
The stop comes amid news that Palin violated Alaska ethics law by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from the state police, a state investigator’s report for the bipartisan Legislative Council concluded Friday.
Ethics woes aside, Palin focused her attention on abortion — an issue that rallies the conservative base but some say alienates independent and women voters.
I’ve come to notice, that when a woman tends to be ‘pro-life’ (AKAP anti-abortion), they also tend to be pretty darn well-fed. The inference being, is that as a rule, they can actually afford to raise children. Personally, I’m both pro-choice and pro-life (no, no, no, I’m not wishy-washy, you can take both those terms out of their political connotative context: I’m mean them literally). Basically, the liberal refrain ‘rare, safe, and legal’.
But, as always, the Right is wrong.
You don’t want abortion? You don’t want prostitution? You don’t want illegal immigrants?
Hey, really folks, the answer is actually way easier than you think.
Combat poverty.
That’s right. All those multiple millions you’ve pissed away on miniscule band-aids for those huge gaping wounds? Put that into education. All those dollars spent combating the symptom instead of addressing the pathology? Should’ve put them into feeding the poor. All those billions poured into battling bugaboos like gay marriage, vice squads, all those lost bucks on faith-based abstinence-only failures and creationist crap fests – it’s squandered money.
Feed the poor. Raise their standard of living to something closer to the US middle class. Educate them.
Because you can’t eat prayers. You can’t feed starving children on hosannas.
Because the old texts are wrong. Man does live on bread alone.
Till the next post, then.
12 October 2008, on 7:55 am
Yes, but! They’re not interested in ending abortion. Or spending money wisely. Or anything else they claim as motivations. They’re interested in getting elected—in getting in and staying in.
12 October 2008, on 8:46 am
I know some people who hold their noses at the polls and vote Republican, even though they can’t stand the candidates or most of the social policies, because they have some misguided belief that the R’s will be “better on defense/security”. Those are people I can sort of understand, because they have put some kind of effort into their decision.
The guano loco lock-step marching ditto-heads are the ones with which I find it difficult even to find a common humanity, as much as it pains me to think like that.
12 October 2008, on 12:08 pm
Both parties should go to extinction, with the republicans shoved of the evolutionary cliff fast before any more damage can accrue. I would remind you that a certain Bill C. was in office when the Glas-Steagall (sp?) Act was repealed, paving the way for the current disaster.
Ben is correct. The only purpose to a politicians career is to get elected and stay in power.
12 October 2008, on 2:18 pm
So pro-life Palin and pro-life conservatives support a war? How does that work again?
12 October 2008, on 2:41 pm
^I think they’re only pro-life when it comes to the unborn. They’ll fight like hell against abortion and stem cell research, but wars and the death penalty are just fine and dandy!
I don’t get these people at all.
12 October 2008, on 3:39 pm
Pro-lifers are not concerned with life. They are only interested in controlling other people. It is all about control. No matter how it is packaged, it is all about control. There is always X percentage of people who cannot function unless they are sticking their noses into other people’s business. If it was not abortion, it would be something else. It is all about control of others.
12 October 2008, on 6:50 pm
The Republicans have no policies. In order to say anything they have to slander their opponents or rattle the cages of their religious followers while shouting a Pavlovian buzzword.
12 October 2008, on 9:00 pm
KA:
Sarah Palin dropped the puck at the Philadelphia Flyers home opener last night;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LJ0Bxg-46o&feature=related,
they lost .
She paraded onto the house–to a rousing chorus of “boo’s”–with her daughters in tow. Oddly, the 17 yo doesn’t appear to be any more pregnant than she was when her pregnancy was announced. Some kinds of miracle I guess.
13 October 2008, on 6:52 am
Hey! When did Alaska become part of Jesusland? No Fair! The AIP will have a thing or two to say about that!
13 October 2008, on 8:08 am
Okay, I know that the families are supposedly off limits, but if Palin is going to pimp her daughter, like she has been ever since announcing the pregnancy (”pregnancy”?), then it’s no longer off limits, as far as I’m concerned.
13 October 2008, on 2:27 pm
Ok, someone please explain to me why prostitution is illegal? I’ve never understood this one at all. The only arguments I’ve ever heard were that it can spread disease and, well, the women would be considered a bit slutty. Considering that the spreading of disease can be controlled, and considering that being called a slut is merely a social label, is there a logical reason that prostitution is against the law? I simply ask because a friend of mine…
13 October 2008, on 3:04 pm
^ I personally think prostitution should be legalized, taxed, and regulated, but then I also believe that should happen with currently outlawed drugs as well.
gruntled atheist, I agree that forced-birthers are all about control. They don’t really give a shit about the children born into and living in poverty, or they would at least support universal health care for the destitute. Behind everything a forced-birther says is “how dare these filthy whores think they can get away with believing their bodies belong to them and they can have sex without consequences whenever they wish?”
13 October 2008, on 3:36 pm
Richard Wolford
Why don’t you realize? Prostitution has to be illegal because it is a threat to the holy institution of marriage!!!1!!
Because without Hos, there’d be no extry- marital sex! Lawsy, Boy, no one is just givin’ it away, no sirree!
Gord says not to covet thy neighbor’s wife’s ass, so man has to covet the pros’ asses. And if they’re republicans, often it’s He-Pro-asses being coveted. It’s all there in the shalt nots, Son. Find you a talking donkey or snake to ’splain it to ya, if need be.
20 October 2008, on 8:50 am
Too difficult to tax a woman’s pussy. Follow the money.