Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
The unintended consequences of the big wet lip-lock that party regulars gave the religious right-wing in inviting them to help tear down the Republican Big Tent a few years ago continue to reverberate.
At an emergency meeting in Salt Lake City over the weekend, religious right leaders met behind closed doors to try to resolve the crisis in their midst: None of the current GOP presidential wannabes are extreme enough for them.
Worst yet for these Bible thumpers, there is the prospect of pro-choice Rudy Giuliani getting the nod. In which case, according to a resolution they signed: “[W]e will consider running a third-party candidate.”
Although I vote for more Republicans than Democrats because they typically offer a better slate of local and state candidates where I live, I share the right wingers’ concern – although for completely different reasons – and it will be a cold day in hell before I vote for an ethically challenged, flip flopping, one trick pony like Giuliani.
This is an opportune time for true Republicans to send this crowd a message:
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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3 Responses to “Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish”
Damn! That George Bush is a busy guy.
The serious fundamentalists are incredibly amusing (but only because I live in Maryland). Everything is a crisis to them. Gays want to get married! Lesbians want to raise children! Some women don’t want to have children at all, let alone the half dozen or so we think they should be raising instead wasting their time doing men’s work. It’s the end of “normal” families! The end of the world! And sex is bad! Really bad! Don’t you feel naughty?
For a religion that claims to be all about finding the joy in life and appreciating God’s wonderful gifts to us, they sure know how to sap the happiness right out of you and replace it with guilt and fear/hatred of everyone else.
What I find completely mind-boggling is this ability to lie in such a bald-faced manner. I’m referring to the language they use on this issue, of which the posts graphic is only one example:
- DEFENDING marriage
- Standing up for marriage
- The WAR on Family Valuesâ„¢
- The FIGHT for marriage
The implication of course is that Gays getting married is an attack, that somehow heterosexual marriage is threatened by Gays being married! It’s totally ludicrous, and yet it’s repeated so many times that I think many who hold such beliefs really do think that somehow Gays being married has something to do with heterosexuals getting married.
I always try to envision the scene: Bubba Smith is proposing to his sweetheart Norma Jean. He gets down on one knee and shows her the ring. She starts, and then, with tears in her eyes, shakes her head and says “Y’know a love you dearly Bubba, but I can’t marry you, because there’s these guys in Massachusetts that got married and now it’s all ruined!”
Somehow repetition hasn’t made it any less surreal.