A radical notion sure to get me lynched. Somewhere.

[veronica_rich]

For all the women screaming "sexism!" about how neocon media outlets treated Hillary Clinton, I have one question: You don't think those same agencies wouldn't have welcomed her with open arms and lauded her ideas if her name had been Elizabeth Dole, or her surname Bush? I bet they would've.

What about the vitriol against Obama for race? Or, more accurately, criticizing him for not being "black enough" because he was not descended from "pure" black family lines or slaves? Or for turning his name into some pseudo-Muslim-terrorist e-mail forward? (Which, hell, took the majority of *peaceful* Muslims' names down into the mud along with his.) Shit, what would Faux News and CNN have done for fodder if he'd been named Tom Smith?

Ladies - let us take a moment to remember John Kerry. The man had a fucking Silver Star (maybe more than one, I don't recall) for service, and the campaign for Bush - a man who spent those same years snorting blow, drinking his weight in liquor, and probably fucking everything to cross his path in party-boy mode - still managed to convince a bunch of fellow veterans to LIE PUBLICLY about Kerry's experience in which his patrol killed a child. This is something Kerry admitted well before then in an interview, explained the circumstances that led to the accidental shooting, and expressed great regret about. Now ... even BEING a woman, if I were also a veteran, I would take more offense at being called on the carpet for my service by a draft dodger than I would at some stupid men proving yet again that the male brain IS, indeed, housed in the penis.

Personally, I think it's about time we see some anti-McCain propaganda about how he's not "soldier enough" for wanting to subject even more young men and women to the POW treatment he endured for several years. Or he's not "neocon enough" because for a while he DID abandon any support for Bush or this war - right before he went back to kissing the old chimp's ass and yelling "rah rah oil!" I'd sure like to see him be required to undergo a mental as well as physical medical evaluation - I know more than one medical professional who has watched him and commented "There's something wrong with him (medically)" and at least one longtime doctor with experience to make judgments, who said "He seems to be displaying a lot of pre-Alzheimer's symptoms."

But hey! He's white, he's old, he has a penis, he has Jesus on his side (because we know Obama isn't REALLY Christian, despite all the public airing of his relationship and break with his former longtime minister - it's just a front to dispute all that terrorist stuff!), and most importantly: He sure wouldn't allow two queers to fuck under the legal sanction of marriage in this God-blessed U.S. of A.!

Comments

[caniad.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind someone offering an opinion from a more right-side perspective, I think that the problem isn't so much people voting because of what the so-called "conservative" candidate believes but because of what the candidate on the opposite side of the spectrum believes. To be honest, I don't like much that McCain has to say, and I wouldn't dream of voting for Huckabee. (I may be a Christian, but I'd never entrust the governing of my country to a Baptist.) And I know a good number of people on the right who feel this way. A very large number, in fact. But I'm unable support Obama's proposed policies -- largely because of his position on capital gains -- so I feel backed into a corner about voting on the right. I was all set to "vote my conscience" in this election and go third party, but that looks like a bad option as well. Please understand that many people who say they support McCain only do so because they're unable to support Obama. I'm afraid I can't explain anyone who would support Huckabee.

(And I'm really not trying to get into a major debate, so apologies if this irritates anyone. I just wanted to present a different perspective and, if possible, show that many of the people who tend to align themselves with the GOP aren't there by design but by default. My husband and I are far from your typical conservatives -- we hate the war, and we're practically tree-huggers -- but we find ourselves in too much disagreement with the left.)

On the side, I AM in my twenties and fresh out of grad school, and I've heard enough crap feminist ideas to sink a ship. Besides, don't these people know -- feminism is becoming outdated, and New Historicism is all the rage :)

[a-silver-rose.livejournal.com]

No irritation here. It's rare these days, on both sides it would seem, to see someone who is willing to make an educated vote rather than voting merely because of gender, skin color, religion, or cultural bias, or because the other person is "too liberal" or "too conservative". :)