OK, I can't resist giving my two cents about Christine O'Donnell, the Tea Party/Republican candidate for Senate representing Delaware. On Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect in 1999 she said she dabbled in witchcraft, had a picnic date on an altar that still had blood on it, but that she never joined a coven (well, thank goodness for that)! In explaining this she tried to shrug it off by asserting that everyone has odd friends in their high school days.
Now, it's been a looooong time since high school, so I must search my brain cells... I remember drinking a little vodka one of the neighbor kids sneaked out of the parents' liquor cabinet. Let's see... oh yeah, there was that time I actually skipped school (on senior skip day with the boyfriend I ended up marrying a few months later, much to my regret now, but I digress). Anyway, I was grounded for an entire month and told quite firmly by my parents that I would surely be on my way to juvenile jail if I kept it up (and I was a straight A student), so no more skipping school for me! Hmmm... well, there was... no.... maybe that time... nope, definitely not very exciting... gee, you know, I can't remember ever doing anything that rivals hanging out with witches on a non-Halloween evening or having a picnic on a Satanic altar! Darn!! Well, my school must have just been oddly -- what's a good word -- boring.
Gee, what's that I hear from the right? The silence is deafening! They're all thinking, "oh crap - here we find someone who looks, dresses, walks and talks like Sarah Palin, she wins the primary and this comes out?" Can you just imagine what they would say if this was the Democratic candidate we were talking about? Holy cow, they'd be shoving each other out of the way to get to the microphones like a bunch of first graders playing musical chairs!!
Now, the masturbation thing is just darn funny, I don't care who ya are... but saying that homosexuals are mentally ill really ticks me off, Christine!
BTW, there is a world of difference between Satanism and Wicca. Wiccans don't believe Satan exists, and worship nature. OK? Everybody straight now?
Now frankly I do think this was a long time ago and it kind of amounts to making a mountain out of a molehill, seriously, but I'm still going to call coward on Christine, who cancelled her planned Sunday talk show appearances. Get yer right-wing ass up there and talk to the people, Christine, and if you follow Sarah Palin's advice and only go on right-wing nut friendly Fox News, I'll call double coward on ya!
Anyway, I must get on to Newt Gingrich, who has gone from disgusting (need I recount the story of how and when he told his first wife he wanted a divorce? slimy!!) to downright whacked. Lately he's been saying some pretty coookooo things, like saying Obama has a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" view. So 1) he's trying to reinforce this ridiculous idea that our President was not born in the U.S., and 2) he says "anti-colonial" like it's a bad thing, but as Bill Maher pointed out on Larry King Live recently, our Founding Fathers thought being anti-colonial was pretty cool. You would think that Obama had hung on his father's every word since birth, but as we know Obama Sr. saw his son for maybe 12 minutes of his life, so I'm not sure where Newt is going with this... for someone who used to have the exalted post of Speaker of the House it's truly sad to see how low he's sunk.
A new right-wing crazy enters the fray! Joe Miller, Tea Party Senate candidate from Alaska, says that unemployment benefits are unconstitutional! Whoa, there, Joey... I seem to recall that Americans pay unemployment insurance out of their paychecks so they can get those benefits if they ever need them, and besides, if they didn't get unemployment checks they would get... welfare checks! Well, that's soooo much better. What a ninny.
On the other hand, I have to give a shout-out to Colin Powell, who seems to be the only grown-up in the Republican Party these days. He reiterated that the President is a Christian and that he was born in the U.S., despite crazy attempts on the right to say otherwise, calling the ridiculous attacks on Obama "nonsense." He's the only one in that party I've heard make any sense lately!
Ummm... since when did a person become a celebrity when their only claim to fame is having an unplanned teenage pregnancy while their mom was running an unsuccessful campaign for vice president, soon to be followed by said mother quitting the governorship of the state after a year and a few months? **Sigh**.
