Uglytown

This has to be the most disturbing election cycle in my memory. Strange that the forces of darkness and stupidity would stage such a nasty push in a midterm election year. I hate the elections. I loathe many of my fellow citizens and do question their morality, intelligence and basic common sense.

Last night Rand Paul supporters decided to apply a little jackbooted behavior modification to a woman from MoveOn who was trying to give him an award at a rally. And I applaud them. Because everyone knows that it is illegal for a woman to ask a candidate a question. To think that it could happen here in the 21st century? Eat libertarian boot beehatch.



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I wrote last year regarding the white supremacist group Storm Front and their contributions to both the Ron Paul and the Rand Paul campaigns. It troubles me. I have several hardcore libertarian friends. I occasionally read the fine magazine Reason and am always impressed by the author's intellectual acumen and by their continued advocacy for marijuana legalization and legalized prostitution and other of the so called "victimless crimes." But to a man or woman, every libertarian I have ever met believes that people have the right to privately discriminate. And this bothers me greatly. Because en masse, this type of thinking will cause more damage to our society than health reform ever could. The other day Republican candidate John Hannah was advocating turning over the Dredd Scott decision outlawing slavery. It's like we are traveling quickly back to the new dark ages. And Rand Paul continues to take white supremacist campaign contributions. You dance with who brung ya. And it is not hard to see why libertarians who champion the right to discriminate would find white supremacist allies who would look upon them with such affection.

Every day that I open a paper or catch up on the news I am smacked with another buffet from some nauseating candidate. All hiding behind the bible or the flag. I thought that Palin and Bachmann were the nadir of political life in America but next to Ken Buck, Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell, I dare say that they seem almost sane.

I noticed that the right wing candidates are rather evasive about how they are both going to cut taxes and reduce the deficit at the same time. It is hard to believe that Bill Clinton left us with a surplus not so many years ago. Remember, it's the people's money? Looks like our country could have used some of that dough, just in case of a rainy day, you know? Now we hear vague stories about getting rid of social security and medicare and tired old mantras about reducing government and growing the economy. Uh, we just tried that, remember? Credit Derivative Swaps, the largest crash since the great depression? You forgot? I thought so...Not to mention the swell goings on in the gulf with that BP thing. Companies will police their own.

A candidate actually said that it was to American's themselves to check for salmonella. Time to get rid of the Ag department and the FDA too. Let the market sort it all out. Alaskan Senate candidate and admitted liar Joe Miller wants to stop unemployment benefits. Ken Buck says that he disagrees with Thomas Jefferson over a separation of church and state.

Yikes! We are truly in a heap o' shit.

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Texas  congressional candidate Stephen Broden has told a local TV station that a violent revolution might be needed if Republicans do not win control of Congress in next month’s election.  Broden, a Christian minister, made the remark in an interview with WFAA in Dallas.

Stephen Broden: "Our nation was founded on violence."

Interviewer: "In 2010 you would urge that as an option, though?"

Stephen Broden: "The option is on the table. I don’t think that we should ever remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms."

I keep my guns around because of people like Stephen Broden. Because I refuse to be outgunned by assholes like him.

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Not that Obama has helped matters any by his ineffectual pandering and his inability to stick to his principals. What is his justice department doing this week, trying to stop DADT again or perhaps continue Bush era warrant less surveillance? Bush light.

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I gave many to the dems last cycle and now not a day goes by that I don't get a supposedly personal email from Barack or James Carville or Howard Dean or some other schmo asking me for money. Enough already! Enough with political spam. I will donate if I feel like it and you folks haven't shown me anything except that you are probably not quite as bad as your opponents are.