Okay, attempting to restart this thread.

Here's the deep, important kernel of my question.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1366994.html

You have Republicans -- popular Republicans, respected lawmakers -- in a whole bunch of states making these insane, OUTRAGEOUS punitive laws that defy any sense of right-thinkingness or judicial sense, and seeming to give no shits at all about the constitutionality of their laws. This is just an example, one single battle in what some people are calling a "war on women" by the Republicans. (I wouldn't use that language, personally.) Republicans everywhere are sponsoring and supporting insane bills and spouting enough religious rhetoric to make Afghanistan seem like their role model.

I don't think anyone at this site thinks like that. I don't think anyone here is a religious fanatic or wants stupid, offensive, punitive laws for women, or wants people like this Chuck Winder making the rules -- but that what we get when we vote Republican. The states with the strongest Republican representation are the states where you're finding all these crazy new laws, of course. (Tellingly, the above bill passed 23 to 12, with all seven Democrats voting against.)

I bring this up not as a "checkmate!" but because it's indicative of the ass-backwards unconstitutional religiously motivated insanity that you get when you have fuckballs like this guy running the joint. Now, with that stuff in mind, why vote Republican?

EDIT: This thread is one long row of maesce character avatars. We need Atmosfear and coqauvin in here.