Yes, for once, about real world
OK, last rant of the night, I promise. And I will get to replies.
There was a Republican debate yesterday.
Of the debating candidates, Kansas Senator Sam Brownback,* former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo raised their hands when moderator Chris Matthews asked who did not believe in evolution.
Oh my God.
These are the men running for President next year?
Why would I vote for a moron?
William Jennings Bryan, former three-time presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes ‘monkey’ trial had an excuse: it was 1920s and by that point he was quite elderly so he lived most of his life in the 19th century. These people?
I am embarrassed that they got so high up in political world. I really am.
WTF.
OTOH, points to Giuliani for being the only one of the Republican candidates who has the nerve to say that it’s OK for Supreme Court to uphold Roe v. Wade, the pro-abortion ruling. And points to McCain for saying unambiguously that he supports expanded federal research into embryonic stem cells.
But seriously, the abortion/stem cells thing, I can understand various differing views on it (though I have my own, strong ones).
But evolution?
WTF.
I have no words.
I really don’t.
I am embarrassed. And shocked. And horrified.
* Brownback also referred to the day where Roe v. Wade is overturned as "Glorious day of human liberty and freedom." OK, regardless of your pro/anti abortion views, what would freedom and liberty have to do with it? I mean, even if you believe abortion is murder, these are weird weird terms to use. I’d buy something like ‘saving innocent lives blah blah’ but it’s not the liberation of Paris in World War II. Ugh. Why are politicians morons? Is that a job requirement?
There was a Republican debate yesterday.
Of the debating candidates, Kansas Senator Sam Brownback,* former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo raised their hands when moderator Chris Matthews asked who did not believe in evolution.
Oh my God.
These are the men running for President next year?
Why would I vote for a moron?
William Jennings Bryan, former three-time presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes ‘monkey’ trial had an excuse: it was 1920s and by that point he was quite elderly so he lived most of his life in the 19th century. These people?
I am embarrassed that they got so high up in political world. I really am.
WTF.
OTOH, points to Giuliani for being the only one of the Republican candidates who has the nerve to say that it’s OK for Supreme Court to uphold Roe v. Wade, the pro-abortion ruling. And points to McCain for saying unambiguously that he supports expanded federal research into embryonic stem cells.
But seriously, the abortion/stem cells thing, I can understand various differing views on it (though I have my own, strong ones).
But evolution?
WTF.
I have no words.
I really don’t.
I am embarrassed. And shocked. And horrified.
* Brownback also referred to the day where Roe v. Wade is overturned as "Glorious day of human liberty and freedom." OK, regardless of your pro/anti abortion views, what would freedom and liberty have to do with it? I mean, even if you believe abortion is murder, these are weird weird terms to use. I’d buy something like ‘saving innocent lives blah blah’ but it’s not the liberation of Paris in World War II. Ugh. Why are politicians morons? Is that a job requirement?