while i agree with your sentiment here, i think we should try to keep our yankee hatred of everything below the mason-dixon on low for the time being. we have enough partisanship and backbiting going on in the political discourse that it won't help anything, you know?
i'm just saying. if we have another civil war, we'd get screwed cause they have all the guns.
You're right, of course. But this dude wants to roll back gay marriage rights! And that's what makes us the coolest state in the union! ...and something that sets us apart from the South.
it does set us apart from them, except that most of the southern states haven't even approached the topic. thats like saying we're different from the southern states because we don't have piggly wiggly. its kinda specious.
I CANT BELIEVE HE COULD WIN IN THIS STATE. I was having fun forgetting that "we" elected Mitt Romney. I'm not even sure if I registered to vote in Hadley, but I'm sure as hell going to call the county clerk in Northampton on Tuesday (Monday if anyone is there) and find out where to vote. I'm so upset about this.
I saw SIX Scott Brown ads while doing elliptical - it was only 20 minutes, and I saw 6 ads, on a total of 3 channels, and a Republican on CNN saying "The Massachusetts election will send a message to Democrats nationwide." It gave me an anger attack.
its true. during one morning broadcast a WHOLE SEGMENT of ads was a backa nd forth of coakley and brown ads. the worst part was that ALL of hers were negative and ALL of his were positive.
it made me sick thinking that at that point i'd rather vote for him because at least he wasn't being a complete dick on state wide TV.
Rest assured - I saw one or two of his negative ads. And some ambiguous ones. I didn't see any for Martha Coakley, so I can't say what the balance of positive to negative is.
His "positive" ones are misleading, however. Not that most political ads don't put a spin on policies. If I see one more, "protect medicare, say no to socialized healthcare" ad campaign, I'm going to go homicidal. Or, "Our health care is great. Insurance companies are acting in people's best interests. Also, lobbyists are bad." Or, "I'll create new jobs AND reduce taxes...don't ask how I can do both of those, it's magic!"
There is another choice in the race, is there not?
I'm also less than convinced that either Coakley or Brown actually believe in anything. The record of the two of them on abortion is a bit mixed. Like so many of our politicians, expediency and the power of their faction matters most.
What, Joe Kennedy of the Liberty Party? The guy who thinks that we need more health care deregulation? Who wants to eliminate the Department of Education? If I'd wanted that, I'd have voted for the Mormon back in 94.
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i'm just saying. if we have another civil war, we'd get screwed cause they have all the guns.
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True, I don't even know what Piggly Wiggly is, but that only means that it's more of a distinction, rather than less.
And is our lack of Piggly Wiggly a moral failure?
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I saw SIX Scott Brown ads while doing elliptical - it was only 20 minutes, and I saw 6 ads, on a total of 3 channels, and a Republican on CNN saying "The Massachusetts election will send a message to Democrats nationwide." It gave me an anger attack.
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it made me sick thinking that at that point i'd rather vote for him because at least he wasn't being a complete dick on state wide TV.
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Convince me that an anti-choice, pro-death penalty bigot like Scott Brown is a better choice, and I'll vote for him.
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I'm also less than convinced that either Coakley or Brown actually believe in anything. The record of the two of them on abortion is a bit mixed. Like so many of our politicians, expediency and the power of their faction matters most.
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