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I followed the link to the guy mentioned. Just remember: everyone has value – even if it is only as a bad example.

Now, you know me Jack. I’m a hardcore democrat. If you cut me, I bleed donkeys. Blue donkeys. I might be one of of the few democrats who loves her gun (which was Mormon-made! Browning!), but still I tend to slant toward the liberal side more often than not.

That being said, I think Obama is a douche. Every time I see him, it’s one grandiose, well-staged play after another, and I think the McCain campaign is RIGHT to criticize the manner in which he conducts himself. I hear some good ideas sure, but most of the time I’m listening to the same old speech re-hashed over and over again into one homogeneous paste that’s fed to every liberal out there. I feel insulted, even patronized by the pandering. When I was watching the Democratic National Convention, I heard the “McCain more of the same” loose rhyme bullshit that makes me want to take a rolled-up newspaper and bash them over the face with it until someone there realizes that I’m a person, not a color, and want to be given a chance to participate feeling like a democrat and not a demographic.

I respect McCain’s choice of a female VP. It opens up that pigeon-hole of “not enough experience” should McCain roll over and die Warren Harding-style. I’d love for your beautiful daughter to grow up thinking she can be anything with the example of a female VP versus another male-male ticket, but my electorally cold, dead heart doesn’t tend to take into account either race or gender, unless I feel it will affect their performance. To be honest, I also don’t give two poos about what denomination of Christianity she is, either. Since I can’t think of a single US president who has been anything BUT one kind of Christian or another, I tend to brush that fact aside. In fact, I don’t only brush that fact aside, I think mentioning it is in bad taste.

Government isn’t supposed to have religion mixed in, yet everywhere I go, under ANY administration, I tend to see religious bias, religious affiliations, and religious choices make decisions. I understand faith is an integral part of peoples’ lives and is very difficult to separate from yourself to make objective decisions based upon it. But if someone isn’t capable of making that separation and in fact touts the religion they have as a selling point, I stop considering them CAPABLE of showing me that objectivity. When you mix religion and government, the result is pretty much always FAILURE, especially in places that have more than one religion running around. The questions need to deviate from what kind of Christian she is to what kind of PERSON she is. This goes for McCain, Obama, and whatever old fart he chose to be his running mate.

I am for the eradication of religion politics. Voting for someone because they share similar religious views can only lead to disaster, especially when said religion has so many different schisms and interpretations. Not to mention when you drag religion in, you’ll automatically make people who aren’t a part of that feel isolated and disconnected. So like gender and race, I tend to throw the idea of considering it and anyone who considers it to be something they consider when electing a candidate straight into the garbage can.

To blab on some MORE, I and many others know politics needs a face-lift. When did it become acceptable to STALK our nominees, watching and waiting for any mistake to repeat as a news blurb over and over again. It seems like we stopped looking for competent people and started instead looking for the PERFECT person to be president. Since when was anyone as perfect as we seem to expect our presidential candidates to be? It’s become a popularity contest, the kind you might see in a Homecoming Queen election where nasty rumors are whispered around like fact and people are judged on a prefabricated personality with about as much REAL substance and depth as a Twinkie that Rosie O’Donnel sat on for two days. It all boils down to boiling things down, trying to pander to as many audiences as possible and ending up not really pleasing anyone. All of it stinks of power-playing, and as a fundamental insult to the objective intellect of Americans.

See, I did consider voting for John McCain, even as a democrat. I’ve read a lot of the legislation he co-authored, especially with John Kerry, and saw that he had an objective mind. But in his olden days here he’s become way too conservative for me to believe that someone from a poor working-class family like me could ever have the time of day with him. Even choosing a lovely, intelligent conservative woman doesn’t make him more approachable and likable, and I feel like this is what he was trying to accomplish by picking a woman and mother of five to be his VP in order to dispel some of that “Old Man McCain” image he has. Unfortunately, all I can envision is McCain standing on the White House lawn, wearing pajamas with no pants and shaking his fist at people while screaming “GET OFFA MY LAWN, YA DAMN KIDS!” This is because, objectively, I do believe that something at some point has snapped inside his mind and he is a little bit crazy at the least. At least now he’ll have a hot trophy wife VP to bring him lemonade and try to get him to put his pants back on and come inside before he gets heat stroke.

Persecution complex much?

I never said or implied in this post or anywhere else on this blog that Mormons aren’t Christians, and neither did any of my commentators, so I don’t know why you felt that comment was relevant. If you want to argue with evangelicals who think Mormons aren’t Christians, go bug those morons at CARM or something.

Hey, I really like the Sarah “Rosie the Riveter” artwork.

Take it easy on Joe W. Mormons are blasted so often by Evangelicals that we lose track of where we are sometimes. It is a lot like Custer at the Little Big Horn. The Indians had a good time but the soldiers barber shop was never the same.

If someone takes offense at what I just wrote they might want to lighten up jeeeeeest a skosh.