So, the Republican party is officially in favor of mothers of infants going right back to their careersafter giving birth(and travelling all over the world as part of said career) and is gung-ho for unwed teen mothers (of a certain hue and stripe). Here’s a clip or two the Daily Show compiled about hypocricies involving Ms. Palin and her party.
How do they get away withthis crapover and over again? Hate Demoratic policies and platform all you like, but at least they stay vaguely consistent. This stuff is as if the Democratic party suddenly decided to be anti-choice, an assault rifle in every garage!Sorry, hard to find any humor today as I envision a McCain presidency.
Is Anita Bryant thrilled with the VP choice, or rolling over in her grave (She is dead, right? Please let her be dead.).
How can any women who aren’t in complete denial not be disgusted by this pandering. Will any actual lifelongDems who wereHilary voters now vote for McCain? Will a combination of fear of a black man and a woman, any woman, on the GOP ticket, really make a difference to those voters? Make them feel more justified,legitin voting some deeply held but secret racism? Help them hide from themselves and others that that’s the reason they’re not pulling that lever for the party they’ve always voted for?
That, and pleasing the evangelical base (who I guess are also now pro-unwed teen mom)seems to me to be the GOP’s hope. Can it work? These questions are almost unbearable to me if they end upbeing answered in the affirmative. Smile: god loves you.
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Okay okay: lighter notes:
Bumpersticker of the week, spied in Gill, MA: "I[heart] my German Shepherd"
Next to the text was a picture of . . . the pope!
Get it? He’s German, he’s a shepherd!
I am suddenlyreminded of a favorite NYer cartoon (which I’d show you here but the NYer folkstighwads about their images -you can look at it here) in which a dog and a cat are walking down teh sidewalk together, the dog, big I’m-so-smartsmirk on his doggie mug, is thinking "Dog…god, god…dog, cat…tac" while the cat, it’s little face blank, thinks simply"cat…god."
