“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

Jonathan Swift
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"The Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital." - Bill Maher
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"The city is crowded my friends are away and I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go

It's a cruel ... cruel summer"

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

are there any queers in the theatre tonight? get 'em up against the wall!

First off, Anette Carlisle should've challenged Swinford as a Democrat. At least she'd still be in the race.

We were shocked, shocked!, that Republicans had insisted that they wanted change, wanted to turn the bums out, but had voted for Swinford and Tom Delay.

But it gets oh so much worse.

At this writing, Larry Freakin' Kilgore has 47,714 votes. That's 7.52% for Larry Freakin' Kilgore, who challenged Rick Perry for the Republican nomination. Larry Freakin' Kilgore. He's running in second place in the Republican primary.

It seems so quaint, so long ago and far away, that I expressed my disappointment that Brokeback Mountain hadn't won the Best Picture Oscar. Now I'm facing the reality that 7.39% of voting Republicans supported killing-- killing-- homosexuals.

That's not a dramatic overstatement. That's Larry Freakin' Kilgore's stated position. There is no way anyone can whitewash the fact that at least 47,714 Republicans supported killing homosexuals today.

How on earth could a reasonable person like Anette have imagined that she would prevail in a party like that?

We have a number of Republican trolls here at PTS. I have believed them to be reasonable individuals. For one thing, they are obviously not afraid to look a different opinion in the eye. And they have shown themselves in comments to be capable of judgment independent from their party.

Now is the time for such Republicans to stand up.

Almost fifty thousand of you have stepped into the voting booth and supported the execution of gays. That's not a statistically insignificant aberration. That's not a few radicals. Liberals have grown accustomed to taking boatloads of grief for the opinions of Wade Churchill-- a single individual. So reasonable Republicans will surely be responsible enough to disavow the fifty thousand among them who would murder all gay people.

We hear a lot about Godwin's law in the blogosphere and how we're not supposed to compare anyone to Nazis. But let's put this in perspective. Fifty thousand people is fifty people a day for almost three years. And here's what Arlo Guthrie had to say about "fifty people a day":

friends they may think it's a movement.
. . . and if it's a movement
. . . and if they want to start killing every-- single-- representative of groups that offend them . . .

Republican Trolls: for God's sake, take out your trash before we all regret not violating Godwin's law and speaking up when we had the chance.

spacedark