I didn’t want to let this Iowa Family Leader thing completely die yet, even though the anti-gay, anti-abortion, social issues venom being spewed at their event isn’t all that surprising from GOP candidates. (You will note, however, that Romney and Huntsman chose not to appear, for which Romney got quite a scolding from Iowa’s own guardian of morality Bob VanderPlasticHair - er, I mean VanderPlaats. He’s like the pastor from Footloose turned up to eleventy-billion.)
Anyway … how 'bout this as a quote from one of Iowa’s own homespun, traditional grandmas who will be turning out at the GOP caucus in January?
Public school teacher. Calling our president a “thing” that’s occupying the White House. That definitely qualifies as a stupid Republican idea, in a lot of ways.
Some other fun notes from the night: Perry proudly trumpeted the fact that gay couples in Texas aren’t allowed to adopt. In a bizarre view of constitutional separation of powers, Gingrich and Santorum both said they’d abolish courts just because the judges made decisions they didn’t agree with. Bachmann saw that craziness and upped the ante, saying she’d limit the cases courts were allowed to hear. And Perry is running ads in Iowa saying as President, he’d cut the pay of Congress and send them home. Which article of the Constitution is that under?
And in a bigger picture view … how exactly will any of this anti-gay, anti-abortion, sex police ranting lower unemployment or improve our economy? Cause real Americans don’t care about jobs, you know, they just worry about two guys sleeping in the same bed somewhere.
Many statements from the guy lead me to believe he imagines the President as a despot lording over littler beings and entities but ultimately holding unilateral decision and veto powers. Basically he thinks President = CEO of America and everything else is just committees.
Which is amusing in a guy running for office. You’d think they’d read up on shit first or something.
I admit I kinda want to see Cain getting elected, just so the next 12 months would be him going on EMERGENCY LIVE BROADCAST to tell his fellow Americans “As of today, I outlaw the colour blue !”, then his staff quietly taking him to one side and softly explaining it doesn’t really work that way.
Yes, it would all be very amusing until YOUR country did something to piss him off, and he orders an air strike. Unfortunately, airstrikes do really work that way.
Well, perhaps there would be mass resignations and disobedience in the military as they refused to obey the order – but I wouldn’t count on it.
Heh heh heh. Yup, we call all have a good chuckle over it later.
Ah, you’re from France? You know we already gave you a warning by renaming French Fries to Freedom Fries. You are on notice, and the bombers are being armed.
