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Political Rant Ahead! If you're having a good day and want it to continue as such, move along down the flist. You have been warned.
Arggh! Mitt Romney just dropped out of the presidential race! (well, he "suspended" his campaign, but I don't know what difference that makes). What's the betting the Huckster (yes, I'm calling him "the Huckster." Deal with it) drops out tomorrow? That's the only reason that dupe was still in the race - to bring down Romney for the crazy "moderate" John "Gotta Have My Finger on the Button" McCain. I hope all you Huckabee voters are happy (I'm lookin' at you, West Virginia). You let the Chargers (McCain) beat the Colts (Romney) and let the Patriots (Hillary or Obama) into the Super Bowl. This time, though, there's no New York Giants to pull the upset.
You watch: the Democrats are going to make McCain out to be this crazy idiot. The states that McCain won are NOT going to go for him in the general election (New York? New Jersey? California? Puh-leeze...) By the time this is over, the mainstream media is going to have John McCain looking like Bobby Knight (notoriously temper-prone and insane former college basketball coach).
I think it's funny that the conservative crowd were upset when Romney said he was suspending his campaign. What's even more funny (when I say "funny," I mean "extremely nauseating") is that the Huckster is supposedly "just as" conservative as Romney, and yet, it looks like McCain is a lock. What does that tell you?
What these establishment Republicans sellouts don't get is that the CONSERVATIVES are the base of the party and they've been kicking us around for years and simply assuming we'd show up for them and vote for them like good little red-staters.
What this really amounts to (and nobody will admit it, except for perceptive people calling into talk radio programs) is that the Evangelicals won't ever vote for a Mormon (one caller even went so far as to call this attitude "bigoted" - and this was a caller from a program in Colorado, not Utah). Even if that Evangelical is a guy like Huckabee - who actually has made bigoted statements toward the LDS Church in public (and gotten laughs from it, even. McCain's even worse. So much for freedom of religion). I knew that Huckabee wasn't conservative, even before I knew about his vicious attacks on my religion.
So, here's what it amounts to: I can't in good faith vote for someone who either (A) has no respect for me because of my religion or (B) is going to send my country to hell in a handbasket. Huckabee is A (he and his Evangelical friends have actually come to Salt Lake to protest at General Conference and to tell us Mormons that we're going to hell - the Southern Baptists had a big conference in 1996 just for that purpose and Huckabee was in the mix), McCain and Hillary are A and B, and Obama is B (he actually had the decency to cancel his campaign trip to Utah last Saturday out of respect for President Hinckley's funeral). My choices are basically zilch.
Well, I do have one choice: mount a write-in campaign for Mickey Mouse. Yup, that'll work.
MICKEY MOUSE FOR PRESIDENT!!
(Take heart my right-wing friends and learn from history: Without Jimmy Carter selling the country downriver, the country would not have let Ronald Reagan emerge to clean house).
(I'm glad that I'm going on a mission - as of next week, I don't have to deal with anymore of this political crap).
Arggh! Mitt Romney just dropped out of the presidential race! (well, he "suspended" his campaign, but I don't know what difference that makes). What's the betting the Huckster (yes, I'm calling him "the Huckster." Deal with it) drops out tomorrow? That's the only reason that dupe was still in the race - to bring down Romney for the crazy "moderate" John "Gotta Have My Finger on the Button" McCain. I hope all you Huckabee voters are happy (I'm lookin' at you, West Virginia). You let the Chargers (McCain) beat the Colts (Romney) and let the Patriots (Hillary or Obama) into the Super Bowl. This time, though, there's no New York Giants to pull the upset.
You watch: the Democrats are going to make McCain out to be this crazy idiot. The states that McCain won are NOT going to go for him in the general election (New York? New Jersey? California? Puh-leeze...) By the time this is over, the mainstream media is going to have John McCain looking like Bobby Knight (notoriously temper-prone and insane former college basketball coach).
I think it's funny that the conservative crowd were upset when Romney said he was suspending his campaign. What's even more funny (when I say "funny," I mean "extremely nauseating") is that the Huckster is supposedly "just as" conservative as Romney, and yet, it looks like McCain is a lock. What does that tell you?
What these establishment Republicans sellouts don't get is that the CONSERVATIVES are the base of the party and they've been kicking us around for years and simply assuming we'd show up for them and vote for them like good little red-staters.
What this really amounts to (and nobody will admit it, except for perceptive people calling into talk radio programs) is that the Evangelicals won't ever vote for a Mormon (one caller even went so far as to call this attitude "bigoted" - and this was a caller from a program in Colorado, not Utah). Even if that Evangelical is a guy like Huckabee - who actually has made bigoted statements toward the LDS Church in public (and gotten laughs from it, even. McCain's even worse. So much for freedom of religion). I knew that Huckabee wasn't conservative, even before I knew about his vicious attacks on my religion.
So, here's what it amounts to: I can't in good faith vote for someone who either (A) has no respect for me because of my religion or (B) is going to send my country to hell in a handbasket. Huckabee is A (he and his Evangelical friends have actually come to Salt Lake to protest at General Conference and to tell us Mormons that we're going to hell - the Southern Baptists had a big conference in 1996 just for that purpose and Huckabee was in the mix), McCain and Hillary are A and B, and Obama is B (he actually had the decency to cancel his campaign trip to Utah last Saturday out of respect for President Hinckley's funeral). My choices are basically zilch.
Well, I do have one choice: mount a write-in campaign for Mickey Mouse. Yup, that'll work.
MICKEY MOUSE FOR PRESIDENT!!
(Take heart my right-wing friends and learn from history: Without Jimmy Carter selling the country downriver, the country would not have let Ronald Reagan emerge to clean house).
(I'm glad that I'm going on a mission - as of next week, I don't have to deal with anymore of this political crap).
