God is Sarah Palin’s ‘Palm Pilot’

The following video demonstrates completely gullible some Americans are.  They actually buy this.  I sincerely wonder how long it took her to come up with this one.  Is this a God complex or can Sarah Palin really “pray away the gay”, and can she really compare herself to God? Perhaps she has merely found a comfort zone by offering excuses rather than owning up to what she’s being criticized for.

White Wing…I Mean Right Wing Tea Party

From The Atlantic:

Despite the right’s efforts to tout its diversity, left-wing firebrands continue slapping the white-people label on conservatives. Last week, Keith Olbermann led the charge asking “Where are the black faces?” at Tea Party gatherings. On Monday night, Jon Stewart called CPAC “this year’s Festival of Whites.”

There is of course some truth to the charge. A new CNN poll shows the Tea Party movement is 80 percent white. As left-leaning blogger Matthew Yglesias said dryly of the poll:

The “tea party” movement sweeping the nation is disproportionately composed of individuals who have higher-than-average incomes. It’s also disproportionately composed of men. And disproportionately composed of white people.

I find I have to agree. Tea-baggers have gone to great efforts to show the (usually one) person of color in attendance, but lets face it, those who oppose health insurance reform have never done without health insurance. It always amazes me to here those Republican lawmakers bellow about “government run health care” when the very health care they have is government run. I wonder, is their health care inadequate? Why do they deserve it, yet nearly 40 million other tax-paying Americans don’t? And what about the economy? The tea-baggers are the ones who have chosen not to participate in the recession. These aren’t people out of work. These are people who don’t like immigrants, don’t like a man of color in the White House, and don’t like paying taxes (which who does, but at least I understand the necessity of). These are not the unemployed. These are not those who are dying because they don’t have health insurance and can’t afford health care…the tea-baggers are those who have…and feel strongly about maintaining the segment of population that are the ‘have-nots’.

The Right Right and the Wrong Right

After spending the weekend listening to the extremely immature, unrealistic, predominately anti-gay, extreme right of the GOP at CPAC, it does a body good to see some rational thinking come from those who stand on the right.

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1% of CPACers List Gay Marriage as Priority

That’s a big menu and the winner was a fait accompli thanks to The One’s agenda and tea-party fee-vah, but still. Only 16 percent had abortion, gay marriage, or “promoting traditional values” as either of their top two priorities? Granted, students comprised 48 percent of the sample — how else could Paul have won? — but that might be less significant as evidence that the poll’s an outlier than as evidence that it may not be such an outlier a few years from now. (More than half the votes cast in the poll were by those 25 years old or younger.)

More at: Hot Air!

Opposing Marriage Discrimination

Two days after the Indiana State Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would only recognize marriage between one man and one woman, the Boston Tea Party of Indiana responded with a statement supporting equal rights, privileges, and immunities under the law to all people in Indiana. The party’s state committee called for “an immediate repeal of all state laws attempting or intending to restrict or define the term ‘marriage.”

“This week, we celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,who warned us that ‘an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,’” said Douglass Gaking, chair of the Boston Tea Party of Indiana. “Regardless of how you feel about the moral decisions of the GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered) community, individuals in a free society must refrain from forcing their morals upon others.”

More at: IPR!

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