Seriously, USA?

So I decided to have a little fun:

Q12: What do you think about the Republican Party?

“I think most republicans think that a fetus is worth more than me. I think most republicans want to deny my mothers the right to marry. I think most republicans are xenophobic. I think most republicans are racist. I think most republicans are bigots.”

Q13: The Republican Party was founded on three core principles: Limited Government, Individual Responsibility and Low Taxes. Which of the following is true?

“Other:  The GOP believes in a government so small it fits in every uterus and bedroom in America.”

Q16: Why do you vote (or not vote).

“Because it’s the best way to ensure my life doesn’t turn into The Handmaid’s Tale.”

Q20: What would a Republican have to do or say in order for you to vote for her/him?

“Have a voting record and issues stance that didn’t suggest he/she was running in 1955.”

Q50: Is there anything else that you would like to say? (Optional)

“I hope your party goes the way of the Whig Party.”

And a bonus:

I’ve always wanted to vote for “African America.”

From ThinkProgress:

“The insurance companies are creating their own tombs. Much like the Jews boarding the trains to concentration camps, private insurers are used by the feds to put the system in place because the federal government has no way to set up the exchange. Based on legislation and the general process that is written toward this legislation, the federal government will want nothing to do with private insurance companies. The feds will have a national system of health insurance and they will eliminate the insurance companies.”

- Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll (R), Idaho

Stay classy, GOP.

We see the race for president between a candidate who is willing to do and say anything to become president, and a president who has done about as good as anyone could have done in the worst economic mess since the Great Depression, and has the right ideas on the most important issues of our time. 

We heartily and without reservation endorse President Barack Obama.

For other races, the Sun’s endorsements are split. At the federal level we endorse Democrats; for statewide offices, Republicans; and for county candidates and local reps, both. 

We support Obama and Carol Shea-Porter’s bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta, and agree with them that Republicans are on the wrong side history on the major issues: health care, Medicare reform, taxes, immigration, foreign policy, the environment, same-sex marriage and abortion rights. 

As for the economy, yesterday’s job report confirms it continues to improve, and all signs, including recent improvements in housing and car sales, point to that trend continuning next year regardless of who lives in the White House. 

The Sun’s political orientation is most closely aligned with old-style moderate Republicans; and like many moderates, we believe the party has been hijacked by social conservatives and Tea Party extremism.

An example is that many Republicans, including our own Rep. Guinta, signed Grover Norquist’s pledge to never — ever — support a tax increase. What good is Guinta to New Hampshire if is he bound by a ridiculous pledge that prevents him from voting for smart, compromise legislation? Like a deficit cutting package that includes $1 of tax increases for every $10 in spending cuts, a sensible fiscal approach Republicans have no choice but to reject. 

Progressive Democrats — at least on the national level — have taken over the middle of the political spectrum and we’ll gladly join them until the Republicans come back to earth.

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A popular Republican placard reads “Save America.”  A suggestion for Democrats to retort: “Save America from the most shameless and pandering presidential candidate in history.”

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This is WAY out of the ordinary - the Conway Daily Sun is opening themselves up for a LOAD of right wing crazy from a town that has been shunning unions since before it was cool.

(Source: seriouslyamerica)

Waas reveals how, after gays and lesbians in Massachusetts won the right to marry in 2003, Governor Romney wouldn’t allow the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics to revise birth certificate forms for babies born to same-sex couples. The plan was to have the box for “father,” for example, relabeled “father or second parent.” But according to documents obtained by Waas, Romney rejected the plan, demanding the agency continue using old forms. Romney then demanded hospitals get permission from his office each time a child was born to a same sex-couple in order to cross out, with a pen, the label “father” or “mother,” and write-in, with a pen, “second parent.” (Romney also required gay male parents to get a court order before any birth certificate was issued.)

Those children would then go through life with birth certificates that marked them as strange, abnormal, less than everyone else, punished because Romney didn’t approve of their parents. As a Department of Health attorney warned Romney, the children would be disadvantaged and would have trouble applying to school or getting drivers licenses as adults, particularly in a post-9/11 world where they might be considered security risks, having birth certificates that appeared altered. It was a “violation of existing statutes,” the attorney warned Romney. But Romney waved off the warnings, not caring about the the legal, psychological or personal ramifications.

Romney hadn’t even previously fathomed that gay people had children. Boston Spirit magazine reportedlast month that when gay activists met with him in his office in 2004, as Romney was backing a failed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in the state, Romney remarked, “I didn’t know you had families.” Julie Goodridge, lead plaintiff in the landmark case that won marriage rights for gays and lesbians before the Supreme Judicial Court, asked what she should tell her 8-year-old daughter about why the governor would block the marriage of her parents. According to Goodridge, Romney responded,”I don’t really care what you tell your adopted daughter. Why don’t you just tell her the same thing you’ve been telling her the last eight years.”

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As one of the aforementioned “not right” children of gay parents, I have a message for Mitt Romney:

(Source: seriouslyamerica)