An outspoken opponent of legal gay relationships, the Reverend Ted Haggard, a 50-year-old married father of five and president of the US National Association of Evangelicals, may have bought drugs and sex from a male prostitute. This has shocked the faithful and delighted the many who despise hypocrisy.
Somehow the unveiling of the weird embryonic dark soul of the Republican religious right always ends up in some gay place. Maybe it belongs there. The G.O.P. has made private sexual behavior part of its political platform. It wants to outlaw abortion, make stem cell research illegal, forbid counseling of women about reproductive choices, and draw up a constitutional amendment proclaiming that marriage may only be defined as a union between a man and a woman.
The party of life, pro-life that is, also began a war that has so far claimed 3,000 American lives and over a half a million Iraqis. It has spent or will spend perhaps $3 trillion dollars in the most badly conceived misadventure in American foreign policy history. Domestically, 46 million Americans lack health insurance, and as the city of New Orleans demonstrated after its catastrophic hurricane, homeland security doesn’t really work. The US is now the most feared, not respected nation on Earth, and any American who travels overseas has to spend half his time explaining that he isn’t like his fellow citizens who voted for George Bush. Americans have listened to five years of fear baiting about foreign terrorists from an illiterate Texan who never visited any foreign country, other than Mexico, before he assumed the Presidency in 2001.
Next Tuesday, the Republicans deserve to lose big. But up to the very minute the polling booths close, we will hear how the big bad gay terrorists are lining up to take over the halls of Congress unless the good Christian souls of America stop them.
Here in Van Nuys 
“Buried by the liberal media”…a generalization, sounding a bit on the paranoid side. The murder rate in LA (a blue state) is lower than the murder rate in many red states such as Missouri, Michigan, Texas, Louisiana and Georgia. If you want to lower murder rates, you might try banning assault rifles and more registration of ammunition and guns….oh wait, that would be a violation of the constitution, or isn’t that a good thing to subvert and violate the constitution to fight “terror”.
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Oh, wait, sorry for the double, but I just wanted to note re the war in Iraq –
Is it really fear-mongering when, buried by the liberal media, we just recently heard from British intel that the terrorist plots they foiled (primarily using techniques Dems want outlawed here) had their intended targets here in the USA?
3,000 American lives lost is not to be taken lightly or ignored; however, to put it in perspective, it is about the same death toll from homicide over the same period on one blue county of the USA that is (allegedly) not a war zone: Los Angeles.
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Where to start? It’s all in there but Halliburton – did you forget that one?
Is Bush really illiterate? Hmmm… If so, how did he beat “genius” Kerry and “genius” (notice a pattern?) Gore?
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/06/my-article-on-john-f-kerrys-iq.html
I’ve been following the election pretty closely, and haven’t once heard anything about gays taking over. I hear from Republicans, fight the war on terror, keep taxes low, a little on judges once in a while, very little if any social issues except perhaps in the odd local race here and there.
Let’s all take a moment also to pause and notice how when those on the right find themselves revealed, in a sex scandal or the like, the response is typically to resign, admit the error, and then suffer the rejection of fellow Republicans all too happy to throw the offender overboard politically. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-haggard6nov06,1,3934838.story
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/29/congressman.e.mails/index.html
Meanwhile, has Bill Clinton, who lied and lied, ever really apologized? Have Dems ever stopped rallying around and protecting him and his? Nope. Sad.
Debunking the rest I leave to others.
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