Daily Aggravations and Regrets
and various random thoughts
 

August 3 , 2000.  Thursday

 

A quote about VP candidate Dick Cheney's daughter:

Sharon Johnson, a Colorado delegate from Denver, said "I admire the Cheneys. I had no idea they had a lesbian daughter. I would hate to have homosexuals come into the schools and teach homosexuality, but if she chooses to be a lesbian, that's her business. If she would go into schools and try to tell my grandchildren or sanction it," that wouldn't be acceptable.

I can't believe it's an actual quote. It sounds like it's from The Onion or something.  How exactly does one "teach" homosexuality?  "Hey Tommy, what class do you have 7th period?"
"Um.... Homosexuality."
"That sucks dude."
"I know, I can't believe it's not an elective.  They shouldn't require it.  When am I ever going to need it once I get out of school?  I want to be an actor! Plus,  I really hate the taste of Mr. O'Connor's asshole."
 

      By the way, The Onion's latest article,  Hershey's Ordered To Pay Obese Americans $135 Billion, was quite funny. Actually, it's not as funny as it should be, because what it is actual satiring is funny to begin with, and it's an obvious target for satire.  I've been saying so for a long time. Really, how long till beer companies are sued.  I debated with Rodzilla for a while about this.  She made some good points about the real differences between suing tobacco companies and say, Hershey's, but I don't see them as that different. If you're going to smoke cigarettes, that's the risk you take.  It's not like someone's putting a gun to your head and telling you what to do. Ah, childhood.
But back to this Cheney thing.  I was speaking with James about it earlier. It's funny to me how the GOP is largely about smaller government and laissez faire and the like, in almost every issue except morality, where they try to force feed you their wacko agenda.  I'm suprised more republicans aren't luddites.  God knows what horrible things come from techology and information and other things you might brazenly call progress.  I was at least glad to hear that the William Bennet-backed Parent's Television Council failed in stopping The Rock from addressing the convention. I'm a little surprised that the GOP got a WWF wrestler to speak at the convention.  I suppose it's tough finding non-liberal entertainers.  Which would explain Jon Secada's presence yesterday as well.  But I really hate that damn PTC and I have an ever growing disdain for William Bennet.  They've been putting a lot of pressure on companies to drop sponsorship for things like the WWF.  I really don't understand. Instead of spending (or more likely, wasting) all that time and money, why not just, oh I don't know, change the goddam chanel to PAX TV.  sigh...   I just don't understand what decade these hardcore republicans think they're living in.  I also don't know what I watched so much of the Republican Convention. I'm not voting for either Gore or Bush. I don't plan to vote at all.  But I will complain for the next 4 years that the system doesn't represent me.  If I do vote, it'll be for Ralph Nader or something.  I almost registered Libertarian, but at the last minute I had this paranoid delusion that that would put me on some sort of list.  And the Libertarians will never, ever really win anything.  The problem with being so hands-off is that it's tough to really get organized enough to make a strong effort toward anything.  Anyway, it was actually sort of scary to see people in the crowd holding up stupid obnoxious signs, the kind you might see at a wrestling show, which said things like "I Practice Family Values!"  What the fuck is wrong with these people.  "Hey, family values, way to go my man!  I take care of my kids too, which makes me soooo special that I need to make a sign proclaiming it, just so no one thinks any different, especially when my kids seem to 'fall down' so often. I also make sure they stay away from things like girls and rock and roll.  Did you see the sign I made for the Convention? it said 'I'm not an alcoholic!'  I can quit any time I want! Really!  Defensive?  Me?  no no, I just want America to go back to how it used to be, when beating my wife could be a well-kept secret, and even if someone found out, the blame surely was placed on her for not cooking my dinner properly."  
Not exactly sure where I was going with that. But that's kind of what I read in the insidious smiles of a lot of people i saw at the convention.

   More about the convention-  During the speech by the openly gay republican congressman from Arizona, the Texas delagtion hung their heads in prayer.  One said something like "I'm not judging him.  I was just praying to God to show him the straight and narrow path."  Straight and narrow path to where, a vagina?

    Anyhow, the concept of Gay republicans always seems so odd to me.  Republicanism on the whole is pretty anti-gay.  Not explicitly, but certainly overtly.  Then it got me thinking.  I'm registered republican, and though I've never voted, I'd probably still voted Republican, even though there are a ton a issues where theire stance doesn't sit too well with me.  Basically, anytime they talk about morals or "our children."  Of course I'd never want my future kids exposed to things like Nazi Ninjas or some of the other percieved threats, but that'll be my business.  If we're going to have all these choices, we should have the right to choose from them all.  Otherwise, I say let's just go with Communism. At least then it'd be easier to swallow powerlessness and lack of free will.  Anyhow, the startling realization I came to was that I think politically, I align myself mostly with Gay Republicans:  Somewhat alienated and unable to really reconcile certain aspects of their lives with the party line, but still agreeing on most of the non-moral-based ideology. That's me.  So from now on if people ask me my political affiliation, I'll just say "Gay."

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