I would have stuck this in an open thread, but I didn’t see one. Just a short word (rejoice).
I’m reading that Casey won in Pennsylvania. By an overwhelming margin. BooMan’s guy got between five and ten percent of the vote. So now, for you Keystoners, you’ve got a choice between two guys who will not give women a choice.
I know BooMan’s answer. We (I can’t really say we, because I quit the party) need to win as a party so that we can get the subpoena power and go after Bush Co. But this is ridiculous. In a northeastern state. A union state. You have a couple of fundies. At least on treating women as equal citizens. Complete bullshit.
It is so past time for a true progressive party. I know it is a pipe dream. But I’ve lost all faith in the two-party system. Might as well have one party. They wouldn’t spend so much time arguing about inane wedge issues.
Just a mini-rant. G’nite.
Oh, Casey’s a fundie on more than women. Remember, he unquestioningly supported both of Bush’s appointments. This tells you more about his positions than his public statements. For example, he’s anti-worker, anti-environment, and anti-rights.
Not that it matters, as Santorum’s going to win by an overwhelming margin in November, and “hippies” are going to be blamed for it.
I’m so happy. Maybe they can elect a wide reciever/sports reporter as governor, too.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. I just read on Brad Blog that the voting machines were failing all over Philly, over a hundred.
I wouldn’t vote for Casey if he was the last man on Earth. Personally, I would rather vote for Santorum. At least he doesn’t pretend he’s a Rethug like Casey pretends he’s a Dem.
Last time a canvaser came to my house and asked for money for the Dem Party machine, I told her that I would no longer support them because they back people like Casey and as long as they continued to back Dino’s, they wouldn’t get a dime from me.
So you think that there was a “Diebold” kind of moment in PA, and that explains the Democratic embrace of fundamentalism?
It appears that it was just gross incompetence, rather than a Diebold moment. But, still, it is another sign of how messed up the machines are.
Boston Joe:
Thanks for your passionate, progressive support of women. Hearing a voice like yours speak out makes me believe that all is not irrevocably lost.
Thanks.
Read an interesting bit from a novel yesterday. The difference between having a vision and having a program. (It was written in the late 90s, when the vision thing was all the rage). I can’t remember the words. But the thought was something like this.
Having a program (some practical kind of idea implemented to try to change something) is great. Some people might hear about it. Some might get involved. Some lives might be changed.
Having a vision (an overall idea that might be communicated, that strikes deeply at the philisophical underpinnings of a problem) that you can communicate, has the potential to infect the entire population. Everyone might take a new understanding. And change will sweep in like a tsunami.
I like that thought. (Though I’m not saying I have either a vision or a program).
Blecch and Bleccher…your decision as to which is which.
Yeah.