2012 US General Election Discussions: Start to Finish

[*Anya*]

Originally Posted by Toughy

So I am driving home from the VA listening to progressive radio....randi rhodes...and I hear 2 stories about Romney and Santorium and I had heard the Santorium one on Rachel last night.

Romney: He is taking his family on the 'great american road trip vacation' and they are going to take Seamus the Irish Setter family dog with them. Romney STRAPS Seamus to the roof of the vehicle....no not in a crate, actually just strapped down to the roof.........and drives off for vacation. Randi was not sure if the dog lived or not. But this kind of stupidity makes sense to me since Mitt (as an adult male Mormon) wears magic underwear.

Santorium: His wife had a stillborn 26 week old baby...that's 6.5 months...a sad thing for his family. Well, Santorium and wife leave the hospital by loading their other children (one as young as 2 yrs old) AND THE DEAD BABY, in mom's arms in the car and drive across Pennsylvania to grandma's house so grandma can hold and commune with the dead baby. Apparently all the kids got to hold and commune with the dead baby during the car trip. They have the dead baby with the family for about 24 hours before they take it to the..."

Every time I think that I have read and heard it all, something else about these right-wing lunatics just leaves me so flabbergasted, I barely have words to articulate how I feel!

Truly, what has happened to the United States of America? What ever happened to separation of church, state and insanity?? When are the citizens of this country going to wake up and take the USA back to the principles on which it was founded ( though by a bunch of white bio men)?

What indeed ever happened to the Rebublican party? Even my 87-year-old father who has voted the ticket in every election since he was 21, told me thinks all the Republican candidates are a bunch of idiots.

I used to be a political activist but got away from it while trying to live my life and support my family but also because I got so discouraged and felt so disenfranchised as a woman and as a lesbian in this country. I have 3 granddaughters. I worry that abortion rights will be chipped away to zero by the time it will matter to them.

I just feel so frustrated by all of it.