I first read this column and had a little laugh over the continuing idiocy of the everlasting Sarah Palin parade. And then it occurs to me that maybe this IS the best the Republicans have to offer this nation.

Holy crap!

Then I went ahead and gutted through the actual article. To be honest, I’m probably more frightened now than before. Not only is this person a dolt, but people in the GOP who KNEW she was a dolt just went along with setting her up to be the 45th President when, not if, McCain would have faltered physically.

Let us restate this: they KNEW she wasn’t up to the task, and tried to play it off ANYWAY. For partisan pride and to hell with the United States of America!

Never mind that she might be the best that they’ve got (especially with Ensign and Sanford caught with their pants down and Piyush being Mr. Rogers in brownface), the lack of respect for all Americans by the Republican Party is sick, and borderline treachery.

“SECTION 16-15-70. ‘Adultery’ defined.

‘Adultery’ is the living together and carnal intercourse with each other or habitual carnal intercourse with each other without living together of a man and woman when either is lawfully married to some other person.”

Just saying. In South Carolina, adultery is still a crime. Strangely, no one is trying to charge Sanford for cheating on his wife.

Here’s his quasi-sincere apology and explanation:

Plus some unanswered questions.

Basically, this is just another “family values” pushing bigot who got caught cheating on his wife.

I know the media is going to give him all the room in the world, cause “ah shucks, what a nice guy” is apparently the rule of the day. Even to grandstanding thugs.

It’s a damn shame that no one witch hunts these assholes the same way they did Clinton. Where, oh where, are the calls for this guy to resign? He directly broke a state law but is allowed to keep his job?

Wow, the frat boys over at FAUXNews have done it again.

Whenever a Republican screws up, particularly in a sexcapade, FAUX labels him as a Democrat. One, it’s the worst insult they think they have. Two, and more importantly, they are so afraid of being affiliated with guys who slum for blowjobs in airport bathrooms or cheat on their wives that they do everything they can to make us forget that some said miscreants were just recently in line to be their candidate for President.

Here are other previous examples of FAUXNews leaving their fellow Republicans out to dry.

Things that need said regarding the continuing juvenile behavior of the GOP.

Wow.

According to this article on new revelations of the Nixon White House tapes, Tricky Dick was for abortions in very limited situations. You know, like “(w)hen you have a black and a white”.

There is also more on his – and Billy Graham’s – anti-Semitic beliefs. And a couple entries that make Reagan look like more of an anti-democracy scumbag than I had earlier given him credit for.

Why do we let these people rule America from time to time? Can’t we eventually learn from our many, many, many mistakes?

And we now have crowned our 21st Century Marie Antionette, State Rep. Cynthia Davis of Missouri. A Republican of course.

In the course of working through budget cuts each state has to do, she wants to kill a program that feeds undernourished kids during the summer.

Her primary problem is feeding kids 16 and older, since, you know, they can go find summer jobs at McDonalds that will also feed them lunch.

First off, I don’t think there are enough McJobs to feed all those kids…in a good economy.

Secondly, Missouri has the 19th highest unemployment rate in the country at 9 percent. Even the McJobs that existed last year aren’t there for summer workers anymore.

Third, and actually this would be first if she wasn’t a “compassionate” conservative, YOU DON’T MAKE JOKES ABOUT WANTING TO STARVE CHILDREN!

According to recent polls, 72 percent of Americans would like the government to offer some kind of public option plan for health insurance.

According to the same poll, only 18 percent would even want to see what Rethugs have to think on the issue. So why are they getting all of the press?

Honestly, given how Leslie’s plan has been gutted and how mine has felt a bit of a squeeze of late, I’d like to see the details of said policy as well.

I just think Republicans don’t want to lose the lobbyist dollars they get from the insurance industry. I mean, if they really hated public insurance, they’d be cancelling the plan the government currently spends money on for them. Right?

Click here to see which our your supposed representatives are at the teat of the health insurance and drug company bribes. Erm, “contributions”.

There sure are a lot of Red Staters there.

Turns out that another “family values” Republican has spent the last year providing cover for John Ensign’s affair.

Tom Coburn, supposedly “moral” Oklahoma legislator, has been point man on a) supporting Ensign, and b) covering up the affair.

To clear things up for our pseudo-Christian friends: Ensign screwed a subordinate which, yes, violates his oath of marriage, and then bumped up her pay, got her husband AND her 19 year old son gigs on both the federal and GOP dime.

But you guys sure know when a wrong is wrong, right? Clinton screws an intern and we blow (sorry, bad pun) the better part of a million to get him impeach. Your boy Larry Craig tries to have sex with another man you try your best to run him out of office.

Here in Nevada we have a GOP governor who took office early (and possibly illegally), tried to bang a cocktail waitress in a parking garage and has cheated on his wife with other women, but you’re fine with that.

And now Nevada has another scumbag violator of the oath of marriage and you have no problem with that either?

“When I see violence directed at peaceful protestors, when I see peaceful dissent being suppressed, wherever that takes place, it is of concern to me and it’s of concern to the American people. That is not how governments should interact with their people… I do believe that something has happened in Iran where there is a questioning of the kinds of antagonistic postures towards the international community that have taken place in the past, and that there are people who want to see greater openness and greater debate and want to see greater democracy. How that plays out over the next several days and several weeks is something ultimately for the Iranian people to decide.”

– President Obama, 6/16/2009 on the Iranian protests

Normally I’m with the say it prainly and clearly – and somewhat loudly – crowd. Obama is clearly of the “speak softly” crowd and is currently withholding the “big stick”. This is an internal affair and since our history of messing with Iranian politics is pretty horrific, our prez is doing the right thing by standing by and pointing out that violence and repression are bad. Besides, the guy at the top and his cronies will still be in charge no matter who gets to be president there; and those cats have never liked us.

Meanwhile the GOP are running around like idiots and screaming for Obama to condemn the election as a sham and, presumably, send in Force Recon to back the protestors.

The Iranians already see anything we are doing as meddling. Why antagonize them further?

“A state television channel in Iran says the government summoned the Swiss ambassador, who represents U.S. interests in Iran, to complain about American interference. The two countries broke off diplomatic relations after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. An English-language state-run channel quoted the government as calling Western interference ‘intolerable.'”

One, even if the opposition is seen to win last week’s election, they are STILL more conservative than even the current whack job crowd of conservatives we have. Two, where the fuck was the GOP where Bush stole two elections in THIS country? Their hypocrisy stinks to high heaven.

Even the media is missing the friggin point, as this short-sighted article clearly shows.

Look, just because eight years of Bush taught us that knee jerk emotional reactions were the approved policy response doesn’t mean Bush and Co. were ever RIGHT in their overreactions to situations. Quite the contrary, in fact.

“(Obama) should speak out that this is a corrupt, flawed sham of an election and that the Iranian people have been deprived of their rights.”

– McCain, over-reacting as usual

Some are billing this as Obama v. McCain 2. If so, Obama still wins on both points and correctness.

As a segue, this article points out how much worse we would be if John Sidney McCain III was nominally in charge these days.

The core point is this however: we have no dogs in this fight and no real reason to jump in other than to express an interest in the will of the people prevailing without much violence. Yep, that’s it.

Besides, weren’t the neocons actually pulling FOR Ahmadinejad?

The GOP is forgetting one important lesson from the Bible studies they supposed go to:

“A gentle answer turns away rage, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”

– Proverbs 15:1

Ultra-tanned scumbag (and, regretably, our Senator) John Ensign admitted today that he had an affair with a married staff member last year.

Presumably, this now makes him the GOP “Family Values” frontrunner for 2012. Seriously, do they ALL run under a combination of 1984 and some random Ayn Rand wet dream?

In any case, I’m sure this doesn’t really change my impression of him as that was pretty low to begin with, and I am equally sure he will learn no humility and try to blame this on the President somehow as that’s all Republicans know how to do these days.

Either way, a filthy piece of crap stays just as dirty today.