How often do state candidates get $500,000? And do these people even care about appearances?
Well, at least three of them that cycle in VA. Deeper into the article:
Again, her husband was not yet promoted so I don’t know how they were supposed to know about “appearances” months before the fact.
It may be an exaggeration, but when so many Republicans make Roe v Wade repeal their single biggest voting issue on the concept that human life is precious at ANY stage of development and then simultaneously demand cutting services to the women most likely to seek abortions because they can’t afford to properly care for those children, their concerns can tend to ring a bit hollow. “Bring them into the world no matter what, but they’re on their own when they get here” really isn’t that far off from the Republican platform.
There’s also no real contradiction. Republicans also don’t believe elderly people should be euthanized without their consent, but that does not imply a commitment to care for them. Republicans don’t want people shot in the streets by criminals, but that does not imply a commitment to provide free care for gunshot wounds.
People have a right to not be murdered. Simple as that. No other promise or commitments need to be implied to justify that point of view.
…that they recognize a tool when they see one?
Just what kind of tool is open to debate.
Never mind the children, a lot of the people who claim they believe life is so precious and let this dictate their voting behaviour are setting to vote for a guy who promises to torture criminals and have their families killed. It’s even harder to take the pro-life right seriously in that light. The theory that the right thinks government’s job is to give them their way explains the facts better; abortion makes them sad so it should be illegal, but torture and murder please them so they vote for the guy who says he’ll have people tortured and murdered. Sanctity and preciousness don’t enter into it.
Could be. A more charitable interpretation is what I call the “trap door” or “thin ice” theory.
Fetuses are innocent and so should be protected because innocent = good. After that a kid’s life is as good as his/her parents can make it. If you drew sucky parents, well it sucks to be you. Overcome that disadvantage or die trying.
As soon as you’re old enough to do anything independent (i.e. about age 12) you need to earn your right to be a citizen every day. IOW, we’re all always standing on a trap door or on thin ice. Be good or else.
The instant you, any you, do something anti-social such as a crime, getting unweddedly pregnant, or perhaps acting on your gayness, you fall through and forfeit all rights to being a human or a citizen. You’re now scum suitable only to be caged. Better yet to be quickly and cheaply ground up for animal fodder or pressed for your flammable fuel oils.
It’s a harsh creed. One better suited to the luckier folks in the world.
There’s the old joke that “a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged.” Here’s a countervailing observation about the world: “A liberal is a conservative who lost his livelihood, health insurance, or savings through no fault of his own.” IOW it’s easy to be a conservative as long as you can’t imagine bad stuff happening to you rather than to the other guy.
Or, more briefly, “A Liberal is a Conservative who’s been unlucky.”
And there’s that.
However they try to spin it, it takes a DUMP TRUCK full of hypocrisy for a Christian conservative to vote for Donald Trump.
Kurt Schilling makes perfect sense for Trump’s America. You know what they say: “Monumental business failures of a feather flock together.”
I think it was Woody Allen who said a liberal is a conservative who hasn’t been mugged yet.
The Republican candidate for governor in Missouri just got a $2 million contribution, and thanks to the state’s lack of campaign finance regulation, no one can even figure out where it came from.
I really should have moved out of Misery when I was young and contemplating such things.
How often do you get to vote for all Seven Deadly Sins in one package?
A Trump Duck?
Some of us haven’t been unlucky, just blessed (or cursed) with empathy.
I was mugged (attempted, anyway) once. It was in Honduras – 3 youths attacked me with bottles and stones, but I fought them off and got back home and they ran off. A few days later my room was broken into and my laptop was stolen. It didn’t make me any less liberal.
If people caricatured dems in the same manner the triggering on this board would be cataclysmic. The over the top, and dishonest, characterization of a different political point of view is pretty offensive to those who vote a particular way.