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Why Creigh Deeds lost
A lot of the so-called experts are theorizing why Creigh Deeds, the Democrat nominee for Virginia governor, lost to the Republican candidate Bob McDonnell on Tuesday’s off-year election. Now I’m not an expert and I don’t live in Virginia, but I’m not going to let any of that stop me from weighing in on the topic.
Creigh Deeds lost because he is Creigh Deeds.
Living in Maryland, I get to not only see lots of campaign ads for candidates here in Maryland, but I’m able to see all the ads for candidates in West Virgina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia too. I cannot begin to count how many ads I’ve seen on TV for both Creigh Deeds and Bob McDonnell. By election day, I was fed up with seeing both candidates for Virginia. If I was a voter in Virginia, I wouldn’t have voted for either candidate.
I would have stayed home on election day.
I’m tired of voting for candidates that I just don’t like. I’ve been forced to do this because the Democrats put awful candidates on the ballot. I told myself after having to vote for John Kerry and John Edwards in 2004 that I would never vote for someone I didn’t like ever again.
I don’t like Creigh Deeds. He’s against gay marriage. He thinks juveniles should be eligible for the death penalty. He voted to make English the official language. He’s against the public option, and he said that if he was governor of Virginia, he would consider “opting out” of any public option health insurance plan.
With Democrats like Creigh Deeds, who needs Republicans?
I think history has shown that when voters are given the choice between a Republican and a Republican Lite, more times than not, they will choose the actual Republican. If a voter is against gay marriage, pro-death penalty, thinks people should only speak English, and is against health care reform, they are probably a Republican.
Leave Councilwoman Kelly Cromer alone
From the Herald-Mail:
A Hagerstown resident told the City Council on Tuesday that she intends to file an ethics complaint against Councilwoman Kelly S. Cromer over a traffic stop in which Cromer was given a warning for allegedly speeding last month near City Park.
During a council meeting, Cathy Ridenour said a “can of worms” had been opened after Cromer was given a warning rather that a ticket on May 26 for allegedly driving 43 mph in a 25-mph zone — an infraction that carries a $90 fine.
“I, as a tax-paying citizen of Hagerstown, am asking that the (Washington County Ethics Commission) investigate in full the incident that occurred in regards to Councilwoman Cromer being stopped …,” Ridenour said. “My belief … is that no one is above the law and using one’s position of authority is inexcusable, unprofessional and wrong.”
Now this is just getting silly. Unless Cathy Ridenour knows something that the rest of us don’t, she has no basis to accuse Cromer of anything. She certainly has no basis of going to the Washington County Ethics Commission.
Even if Cromer somehow used her position on the City Council to get out of a ticket — and there currently is no evidence showing that she did — it’s the police officer that made the decision to NOT give her a ticket.
I think I’m going to do my best John Kerry impersonation now and flip-flop on this. At first I was ready to criticize Cromer for trying to get out of ticket, but now I’m not so sure if she has anything to be criticized about. She claims she didn’t say “Don’t you know who I am“. She claims that since the officer obviously knew who she was, she asked him if she needed to look through her luggage for her license.
The more I think about it, the more I believe she didn’t ask the officer if he knew who she was. She obviously knew the shit-storm that was created when her fellow City Council member Alesia Parson-McBean said that when she was stopped by the police.
Of the two versions of the story — Cromer’s and the officer’s — it’s Cromer’s that makes the most sense.
If you cut in line you deserve to get shot with a Taser
I’m sure everyone by now has heard about the college student that got shot with a Taser when he tried to ask Senator John Kerry some questions. It pains me to admit this, but I think campus police officers did the right thing when they repeatedly fired a Taser at college student Andrew Meyer. Not because he was asking dumb questions of Senator John Kerry and then not allowing him to answer his questions, but because he was a line jumper.
I hate line jumpers.
Andrew Meyer cut in front of a bunch of other people to ask his “questions”. What makes him so important and so special that he placed himself squarely in front of other students that wanted to ask the good Senator a question? He was being obnoxious and he was being a jerk. The Washington Post is reporting that he may have set the whole thing up. He supposedly brought a video camera with him and handed it to friend before asking Kerry his “questions”.
I hate line jumpers. I only wish I could personally Taser people that cut in line. In fact, I think the only time a Taser should be used on a person is if they cut in line. And people that talk loud in movie theaters. They too should feel the sweet embrace of 1,000,000 volts.
I feel sorry for John Kerry. He didn’t need something like this added to his Wikipedia entry. The man has gone though enough.
John Kerry says he won’t run for President in 2008
What a coincidence. I already decided I wouldn’t be voting for him in 2008. Once is one time too many as far as I’m concerned. I voted for him in 2006. It’s not something I am proud of.
What choice did I have? Picking between George W. Bush or John Kerry was a lot like picking between drinking a gallon of spoiled milk or drinking something else nasty and foul. Something just as bad as spoiled rotten milk. Maybe a domestic beer or something else that tastes really bad.
Not only did I vote for John Kerry, I even affixed a John Kerry bumper sticker on the rear bumper of my Hyundai Accent. It remained there for three whole days until somebody removed it while I was shopping at Kmart.
That’s what I get for shopping at Kmart.
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The all-volunteer military
President George W. Bush said something that I found interesting. He had this to say at a rally for one of his Republican stooges:
“The men and women who serve in our all-volunteer armed forces are plenty smart and are serving because they are patriots — and Senator Kerry owes them an apology.”
First he implied that our service members are in Iraq because they volunteered to go to Iraq. That’s simply not true. Just because they took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies doesn’t mean they volunteered to go off and make Iraq a democracy.
Bush also said that members in the military are serving because they are “patriots”. That is simply not true. Most join the military for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with patriotism. Whatever that word even means these days. Sometimes I think it has been turned into something to do with magnetic yellow ribbons and boycotting the Dixie Chicks. To listening to Sean Hannity and getting as many tax breaks as you possibly can.
A majority of the people that enlist in the military do so because of need. Some join for the job training. Some join for help paying for college. Some join for the medical benefits. Others join because they simply want a steady paycheck. Some join for all of these reasons.
If a kid has the means to go to college or to obtain a well paying job, he or she will be far less inclined to enlist in the military.
If anyone owes the troops an apology, it’s George W. Bush. He sent them to invade a country under false pretenses. Thousands of young men and women have been killed or permanently disfigured because of weapons of mass destruction that never existed. Whoops. The fact is that Bush sent our military to invade and occupy a country for false reasons. His huge whopping mistake he himself refuses to admit.
He has no business demanding Kerry apologize for anything. It’s embarrassing. I don’t know if he knows this, but John Kerry is not even running for re-election.
John Kerry responds
John Kerry quickly responded to the right-wing smear machine.
“If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they’re crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.
I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq . It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.
The people who owe our troops an apology are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it. These Republicans are afraid to debate veterans who live and breathe the concerns of our troops, not the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor.
Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they’re afraid to debate real men. And this time it won’t work because we’re going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions. No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq .”
My favorite part was where he said, “doughy Rush Limbaugh”. Rush is off the drugs and is getting fat again. That’s funny.
John Kerry proves that he still loves the taste of his own foot
John Kerry reminded us today just how he lost the 2004 presidental election to George W. Bush. He said the following while speaking to college kids at Pasadena City College:
“You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
Republicans immediately made the leap that Kerry was saying that troops in Iraq are in Iraq because they are dumb. Because they did not try hard in school. Kerry responded by saying that he was not refering to the troops, but to Bush. The man who got us into Iraq under false pretenses and has no plan for getting us out.
Kerry was trying to say that Bush was an idiot.
I highly doubt the Kerry was trying to say that military service members are dumb. He is just an awful public speaker. He says things in a way that Republicans can easily pounce on and misconstrue. This is the man that said, “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.”
If Kerry wants to point out that Bush is an idiot, he needs to clearly say so.
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