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Palin Supports Gay Rights But Not Gay Rights

I have not been able to blog for a while now. The complete disintegration of my country has had me speechless. Between the stock market crash, McCain “suspending” his campaign to hang out in New York for a while and the House of Representatives deciding to torpedo all our 401(k)’s with the convenient excuse that Speaker Nancy Pelosi upset them….I can only stare at CNN slack-jawed, shaking my head.

As far as the Pelosi speech goes, I listened to it, and there was nothing any more partisan than anyone else from either party has said for the last eight years. It in fact was only one percent as inflammatory as most of what comes out of the mouths of Republicans. And what’s more, even if she had said, “Fuck all you Republicans! May you burn in hell.” — that is no excuse for not doing the right thing for our country. What happened to “country first?”  It’s pretty absurd when that faggot Barney Frank has to tell you to man up.

Tonight, as I write this, I think I’m nearing a stroke from the rise in my blood pressure. The vice presidential debate has been over for well more than an hour, and four Advil later, my temples are still throbbing. Nothing Palin said made any sense–just pick a random set of English words and mix them up. As long as the phrases “Maverick,” “Washington outsider,” “executive experience” and the like are spewed with that folksy smile and a bat of eyelashes, Republicans will get a hard on and run to the polls for relief. Does anyone know where I can get a tranquilizer or something? My BP may not go down for days.

There were many bizzaro moments in the debate, but one interesting one for us queers was Palin’s seemingly pro-gay stance on equal rights. She doesn’t want to “change the definition of marriage,” but she does believe that gay people should have the right to visit their partners in the hospital or own a home together. The poor ignorant moose killer doesn’t know that there are over 1,000 laws that prohibit or make monumentally difficult those rights, because they use the word “marriage.”  Apparently she’s been too busy using helicopters for moose combat to read her bible, which clearly defines traditional marriage:  Governor Palin is actually the property of her “First Dude.”

This is only one of the many naive statements she has made since being shoved into the national spotlight for the purpose of giving anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-American right-wingers a hard on. I don’t think she’s a total idiot. Okay, maybe I do. She is just not ready, by any definition, to hold such a high office. Two wars, North Korea, Pakistan, the economy, the environment…people, this is serious. We all have to get out and do something to be sure as many thinking people as possible vote, and of course vote ourselves. Otherwise, you’ll find me in line at the French Embassy, where I’ll be pleading for my visa.