The Cowtown Chronicles

Republicans.

How can one honestly call themselves a Democrat (and by implication that they support the same policies and positions as the Democratic Party) and then vote for McCain?

Don’t give me that “experience” bullshit. We don’t align ourselves with political parties or causes because one or the other is more experienced. We do it because they share our worldview and promote positions that we agree with. To call yourself a Democrat and to be willing to vote for a Republican (particularly one that so violently disagrees with Democratic positions) is the worst kind of dishonesty with yourself.

I think it goes back to fear. Some people are so convinced that we’re under immediate threat of attack from anyone and everyone that they’re going to go with the guy (or woman in the form of Hillary Clinton) who says that they’ll take the fight to the enemy and all that macho BS. It’s sad, really.

You might have heard all of the gnashing of teeth by the McCain-Palin campaign over Obama’s use of a tired old metaphor.

Disregarding for a second that Republicans are the ones who YEARS ago decried the modern taste for “political correctness” and all of the immediate cries of offense that poorly chosen words would garner, I posit this question:

Which is more offensive?

Saying that the McCain-Palin campaign is more of the same and that you can put all the lipstick you want on a pig (or a pitbull?), and it’s still a pig.

OR

Ridiculing someone for making a deliberate choice to take a low-paying, extremely difficult job as a community organizer instead of the much more lucrative fast track that Obama could have taken to Federal Court clerkship or a six-figure salary at a BigLaw firm? (I have no illusions that Obama made his choice for purely altruistic reasons, just like McCain hasn’t stayed in public office for 30 years because he’s so in love with his country.)

Is using a tired old homily of the “lipstick on a pig” sort automatically sexist because the opposing campaign happens to have a woman on the ticket? Isn’t it just as sexist to ASSUME that she’d choose to wear lipstick and would automatically self-identify with a crack made in regards to lipstick?

This wisdom came to me third-hand through Jenna and one of her co-workers…

If you go to a restaurant and order Coke, they often offer Pepsi as an alternative. No one I know replies that they would rather have Draino. If you can’t have the dark fizzy soda of your choice, you go with the next best thing, not he poison you found under the sink.