I felt it in
2008 when I "hung out" with Romney at the
debates...
I knew he'd be the
nominee and I thought he was an absolute buffoon.
There wasn't an ounce of sincerity in him and the can
of progress gets kicked down the road again.
See, that's why
his latest stumble actually upsets me. It hurts
ALL OF US when one side is so freaking bad
that they embarrass themselves. It's why I harp
on our media CONSTANTLY for this bullshit false
equivalency they pander to. They want so badly for
each side to be equal, for each side to be "right
about some things and wrong about other things", for
each side to have "extremists and moderates" so
they're never accused of the biggest sin of true
journalism: being biased. Of course in trying to avoid
it you become an absolute joke. Because NOT pointing
out that one side is batshit crazy ends up being
biased FOR them. They know you won't call them out and
onnnnnnnnnnnn they go.
Well, at least on
this blunder the media across the board has said this
was "Lehmanesque" and the fact that he doubled down on
it in a cringe-worthy press conference the following
morning was the nail in his coffin. This election is
completely over and I'm honestly frustrated with that.
THIS DOESN'T HELP US. This isn't like
rooting for the Buckeyes and being happy with a
blow-out. All theories and agendas need to be DEBATED.
Critiqued. Intelligently worked through. Held to the
fire. Put up against past precedents. If there's only
gonna be 2 parties, we need both parties to put up
their best, brightest and most honest so we end up
better off than we were before. Instead on one side we
get Bush, Cheney, McCain, Palin and then Romney and
whatever the fuck Ryan is.
Fuck.
Me.
These aren't
conservatives. These aren't intelligent conservatives
that deal in facts. Sans McCain, these are corporate
puppets dealing in ideology ignoring every fact out
there. They deal in black and whites, good and evil,
and don't even acknowledge grey. In fact, it's much
like a facebook thread I was stuck in with a
conservative that was so assanine, I finally had
to say:
"Can you
just open a fucking dictionary and look up
socialism? Please? I know you can read. I'm not
certain you can process what you read, but sweet
jesus if you can't understand the definition of a
word, it makes it impossible to have a conversation
with you. It would be as stupid as me calling you
Asian because you like your computer. And when you
replied: "I'm actually caucasian" I came back with:
"I don't care what TYPE of asian you are, you're a
computer user." That's how butt-fuckingly assanine
having a conversation is with you."
That doesn't help
us. I mean, it's funny, but it's exhaustion. If you
come to a debate about Obamacare and all you can say
is that it's "Socialism", when it is in fact a
conservative think-tank's idea of mandating people to
buy PRIVATE insurance, than there will be no dialogue.
We can't have an actual debate. If we're debating the
color of a leaf and you insist that jello is better
than pizza - where the fuck does that leave us? And
I had to finally leave the conversation
with:
"I literally
don't have enough respect for you to continue
responding."
And it's the
truth. And unfortunately that's where we are right
now. Romney is an atrocious candidate. Bad on every
possible level except he's an attractive man. Remind
you of a certain vice-presidential candidate?
WHAT THE FUCK. How do we improve as a
country when only ONE side has adults? Only one
side has competent and blisteringly intelligent
people. I KNOW there are intelligent
conservatives out there that can further this country
for the better. That DO want to work together. That
understand that compromise is the cornerstone of how
things get done. Those people? They realize how
moderate and centrist Obama is and how often he has
put out his hand to comrpomise and move things
forward. Only to be met with "no". Why? 'Cause they
know that any improvement (though it would help 300
million citizens) would also help HIM. GASP! They now
get to run on jobs when the only jobs bill Obama tried
to pass wasn't even VOTED on by the congress. Which
was actually stupid for them POLITICALLY! Had they
passed it last year, it barely would've had time to
show an effect and then they'd ACTUALLY HAVE
ground to stand on with their attacks! How stupid do
they think people are? The man is 1 million+ jobs in
the hole by month 2 of his presidency and at the end
of his first term can boast 3 straight years of job
growth... and they paint that as a negative? And
people BUY that because of a colorful
CHART?
STOP BEING STUPID.
I'm BEGGING the Republican party to fucking find
someone who doesn't treat us like MORONS simply
because some people actually ARE morons and will
scream "keep your government hands off my medicare!".
Stop pandering to the idiots, please. I know
there's an unGODly amount of idiots in this country
but for fuck's sake they don't need more FUEL.
So annoyed.
I mean, thankfully Obama will give me a few more
years of knowing the man making the biggest decisions
has a cool temperament and is thoughtful, but the
balance will shift to the right again in 2016 and if
we keep getting pretty faces with vacuous minds we all
lose. Nevermind the fact that the right is adopting a
platform from the 1950s. No conservative woman should
have to deal with this bullshit. It has no place in
politics. I feel for strong conservative women
who now have to vote AGAINST their best interests
because Republican men are fucktards. I don't believe
the liberal argument that no women should vote
Republican, because ya know what? SOME people don't
vote specifically for their agenda, they vote for what
they believe is best for the COUNTRY. And several
Republican women, though sickened by where the party
is moving, still feel the country is better off in the
long-run without Obama. I respect that and understand
their struggle... however I am flabbergasted they
still think Obama has been liberal. It's extraordinary
that people can't put things together without talking
heads telling them what to think.
UGH. I don't
believe intelligent conservative is an oxymoron. So
prove me right in 2016. PLEASE.
