It's a conspiracy by the left wing media to smear and slander her good character. She needs to get paid by Fox News to tell her side! Breitbart, where are you?
the primary is over. i honestly don't know who i'd have voted for, but the goal is to minimize the damage harry reid, pelosi, and obama can do, so i'll take what i can get. she's definitely got a past, but she's as qualified as half the existing senate. true, most of the existing senators are idiots of one stripe or another, corrupt, or both, so perhaps that's a poor standard, but it's what we have. in any case, i've mentioned several times i'm no great fan of the republican party. they just happen to be better than the alternative.
If this was truly the case you should be disappointed that Castle didn't win. He would have taken the seat.
We need to stop the reid, pelosi, obama, agenda yeah, you're not a republican LOL that's the new party line
he had donated money to mccain's campaign before he selected palin. after they selected palin, the GOP called him back for another donation. he asked for his money back and told them he was tired of them insulting his intelligence. :grin:
When I was in undergrad in Jesus-crazy west Texas, a girl saw me looking at the first Godsmack CD that I'd borrowed from my girlfriend at the time and proceeded to go on a mini-sermon/tirade about how they were evil and their music was evil and the lead singer was a "Satanist." (FWIW, years ago I read he's a practicing Wiccan, which isn't closely related to Satanism, but whatever). Being polite (and loving to argue about religion), I not only had to listen to her, but I had to defend friggin' Godsmack, who I've never liked. Another time, I saw a different girl at lunch on a Sunday. I asked her what she was going to do that afternoon, and she told me whatever it was she had planned. She then asked me what I was going to do that afternoon, so I told her my plans: Go to my buddy's house, grill some steaks, have some beers, and watch some football. She looked at me like I said I was going to go baby-stomping and offered to change her plans so I wouldn't go do "that." After a minute or two, I figured out that the "that" she was so opposed to was me planning on "having some beers." I had prayer requests in my mailbox every day to stop by the student ministries office because people were "concerned about me." They damn near didn't let me graduate because my chapel credits were....deficient, to say the least. (This one was my fault. I knew the rules.) They generally made my college life difficult, to say the least, and they all fully believed I was going to hell. The funny thing is that I do recognize that their intentions were good despite their earnest attempts to save me/irritate me. (And when I say "all" I really mean all of a select group. I made some of my best friends out there, too, and despite being conservatives themselves, they were normal, rational people.) Point is, I still know some of these folks, and though they've mellowed out over the years, I know full-well and first hand the impact that hyper-religious conservatives want to have on society. That said, I really don't think that it's great enough to actually fear. But I'm aware of it; more so than most. And this lady's insane points of view on the matter mean I can't and won't support her. Where the hell are all the moderates, anyway?
Fair point, perhaps. But in the Maher interview, she was speaking out against sex education and harping on morality. I see the former as simply human biology that needs to be taught and the latter as completely and absolutely subjective. And based on my experience of the uber-Christian Right, her whole "witchcraft" experience probably means she listened to a Type-O album while making out with some dude who then went and bragged to his friends about it. On the other hand, I might favor outlawing a few bands so maybe she won't be all bad.
again, the experiences you cite, happened while she was in high school. do you hold Obama's cocaine use against him? it's certainly as "irresponsible" as whatever dabbling Odonell did.
No no no....don't misunderstand: it's her "OOOoooooOOOO I used to be such a bad girl then I got saved and Jesus made it all better and he'll make it better for you too and we need to have religion and morality in schools and you can't teach sex ed because even though it's a natural and necessary biological function we somehow shouldn't talk about it" that I take offense to. I find all of that offensive from a religious, scientific, and health care point of view. And I fully believe drugs should be legal, so Obama or Bush Jr. doing it doesn't bother me. Use is one thing. Addiction is another matter.
So, you find these statements offensive? i think the last one is about the "masturbation" controversy. (full disclosure, i'm agnostic myself, and hold no particular truck with any particular type of religion. [rquoter]1. “To my amazement, I was besieged with questions about my sex life. At first I thought this was just a passing joke, but I was wrong. It became the dominant news story of my candidacy, and my popularity dropped precipitously. Any attempt to explain the Christian theology behind my answer only served to keep the issue alive.” 2. “I have an absolute, total commitment as a human being, as an American, as a religious person to Israel … Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.” 3. “Feeling a bit presumptuous, I wrote to [an evolutionary scientist] diasagreeing with this premise and asserting that there were factors other than pure happenstance that influenced the course of evolution.” 4. “Because I’m just human and I’m tempted and Christ set some almost impossible standards for us. The Bible says, ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery.’ Christ said, ‘I tell you that anyone who looks on a woman with lust has in his heart already committed adultery.’ I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times…. This is something that God recognizes, that I will do and have done, and God forgives me for it. But that doesn’t mean that I condemn someone who not only looks on a woman with lust but who leaves his wife and shacks up with somebody out of wedlock. Christ says, don’t consider yourself better than someone else because one guy screws a whole bunch of women while the other guy is loyal to his wife. The guy who’s loyal to his wife ought not to be condescending or proud because of the relative degree of sinfulness.” 5. “This set of principles, rooted in my Christian faith, has both shaped me and been shaped by my personal experiences, and it remains to this day a central element of my identity.” 6. (Quote from someone commenting about the candidate running for office) “It is not presumptuous to say, as there is enough evidence already, that a vast number of O'Donnell supporters consist of aggressive evangelicals whose main goal is to ‘Christianize’ our country; that is to say, to convert Americans to a particular brand of religious obscurantism. Needless to say, most, or many O'Donnell-fundamentalists despise complete intellectual and religious liberty.” 7. “Being born again is a new life, not of perfection but of striving, stretching, and searching — a life of intimacy with God through the Holy Spirit.” 8. “But if we aspire to grow as human beings, we should struggle to close the gap by making our inner selves truer reflections of our own highest values, which, for me, grow from my Christian faith.” 9. “…There are basic principles that, for me, have never changed. For a Christian, the life and teachings of Jesus offer a sound moral foundation that includes all the most basic elements that should guide us.” 10. “Yes, I have my personal beliefs, and these questions come from statements I made over fifteen years ago. I was in my twenties, and very excited and passionate about my new-found faith. But I assure you my faith has matured, and when I go to Washington, D.C., it’ll be the Constitution on which I base all of my decisions, not my personal beliefs.”[/rquoter]
