"CORRECTING" THE RED STATES

Washington Post reporter David Von Drehle unveiled a long Post Magazine article this weekend discovering (among other things) ignorance in the Red States. He found an old lady in Oklahoma named Joyce Smith who he clearly thought had her curlers on too tight: "She was too polite to say, in so many words, that she felt John Kerry was a man of bad morals. Instead, she put it this way: 'When Kerry said he was for abortion and one-sex marriages, I just couldn't see our country being led by someone like that.'" Von Drehle felt compelled to "correct" the woman for the record: "Later, I double-checked what Kerry had said on those subjects. During his campaign, he opposed same-sex marriage and said that abortion was a private matter. But Joyce Smith heard it the way she heard it, and voted the way she voted...."

Von Drehle did not want to consider Kerry's actual voting record instead of just his campaign-trail chatter. Kerry may not have said he opposed what proponents call "gay marriage," but he has a perfect 100 percent rating from the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay-left lobby, including his 1996 vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. Kerry is also a regular 100-percenter for NARAL Pro-Choice America. His campaign did not say abortion was a "private matter," which is still a pro-choice position, but as Kerry spokesman David Wade put it, "John Kerry's personal feelings about [Catholic] church doctrine are a private matter. He's made it clear that he's committed to upholding a woman's right to privacy, and that he wants an America where abortion is safe, legal and rare."

Von Drehle felt compelled to "correct" the woman for the record: "Later, I double-checked what Kerry had said on those subjects. During his campaign, he opposed same-sex marriage and said that abortion was a private matter. But Joyce Smith heard it the way she heard it, and voted the way she voted...."

This nut case knows that Kerry would tailor his message for the particular audience. Bottom line...Kerry supports queers getting "married" and abortion on demand.

This idiot thinks that if we just all worship at the throne of socialism and give up 75% of our hard earned pay checks to the government every thing will be just fine. Socialism has never worked anywhere it has been tried, that's a proven fact (Cuba IS falling as we type).

We are in the process of taking our country back. Let them bitch, gripe, scream, and bite at the air,...I could care less.

The left thinks that only THEY have the solution. Wrong again, swamp breath, they have the same old stale idea. Logically, socialism can't work, think about that. Free economies work, with free people running them. That's a working world with a huge economy. They, the socialists/communists, can never understand that because socialism/communism is a religion. They can't be debated with, they can't be reasoned with, they can't be wrong. If they are not right they will evaporate like the wicked witch of the west. They are the sickest among us. The problem with socialism is that the power is concentrated in a few at the top and communism is a joke, no way that it can work. They are demented, delusional people following an antiquated idea. They are sick to death that the idea is a joke. They have, and always will be, dedicated to a dream that is evil, and corrupt. These people need to be left alone, and isolated from the good people of the United States of America. We just proved that we don't want socialism/communism.

We are in the process of taking our country back. Let them bitch, gripe, scream, and bite at the air,...I could care less.

Exactly, Communism and Socialism to me is like a religion, only the role of God, a deity or deities is replaced by the state and/or the party. If you go against them, either you must be forcibly converted or die. Hmmmm, sounds a bit like the Islamofacists.

When I hear the lefties go on, I take a "yeah, whatever" approach anymore, they may think they are the up and coming "thundering crowd" but there is one saying I remmeber eeing here a while ago, "sometimes the noise of the thundering crowd is nothing but a bunch of farts." Well, I do believe in the case of the lefties, that is true.

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