We must’ve really pissed Him off, huh?

Why did angry Moslems fly planes into office towers? God’s angry about lesbians and feminists. New Orleans floods? God’s still angry about those lesbians and feminists. Ariel Sharon has a stroke? God was angry about something else.

And God chose George Bush. And no lack of 100’s of ton’s of WMD, no amount of torture photos, no hundreds of billions of dollars poured down a rathole called Iraq is going to change their minds about it.

How do you expect Democrats to be able to compete with that?

The Republicans have 40% locked in no matter what their candidate does. If photos of Bush and an intern surfaced this evening, tomorrow Fox News would spend the day with analysis of the benefit to national security from having a president who doesn’t have a lot of sexual tension.

I do not know what the national Dems stand for. Who else is there to vote for?

Any thinking person knows that all these concepts are much more fluid and nuanced than the way in which the Republican party presents them.

To have an abortion is a sad decision, but one that many women make and are relieved to make. Better sex education and birth control availability would help a lot but that would seem anti-”family values”, so the Democrats are afraid to stand up and be counted on freedom of choice.

National security is of paramount importance but the war in Iraq has made things much worse, not only in Iraq, but throughout the world. However, saying that the war was a terrible mistake smacks of “spinelessness” so the Democrats can’t take an intelligent stand against one of the stupidest military decisions made in recent history.

Everyone’s against crime, but throwing people in jail without any rehabilitation programs and not funding youth programs that would give young people a chance to live productive lives rather than joining gangs are expensive, long-term projects that don’t yield fast “results”. If you’re against concepts like “three strikes you’re out”, you’re “soft on crime”, so once again the Dems don’t seem to be able to do anything but follow the Republican lead.

A significant chunk of the population believes that “family values” preclude the eminently sensible idea of sex education and decent, readily available birth control. If such programs were funded and expanded, the U.S. would be overrun by raging gays, invading city halls and demanding marriage certificates or lazy welfare mothers demanding bigger cheques as their bellies grow. Or so says the Right and the Democrats say nothing because they don’t want to be branded anti-family.

As long as the Democrats fear their shadows and fear standing up for anything that the religious right and the economic right abhor, they can only meekly follow the Republican lead. I don’t know whether the Democrats could garner a majority by standing up for what they believe, but I don’t think there is any other choice for them. The fact that Russ Feingold speaks his mind honestly (unlike the mealy-mouthed Hillary Clinton) and succeeds in being re-elected with large majorities should stand as a lesson for the lily-livered Democratic party.

Well, Dubya got himself elected (allegedly) and nobody had to hand out stupid pills to him.