"This election is not about issues!" This election is about lipstick.

[tesla]

Apparently the McCain campaign owns lipstick, and they're not sharing.

("This election is not about issues" quote and story here)

(I wonder how their supporters feel about the implications continually made by the campaign that they're stupid?)

Comments

[sethb.livejournal.com]

No problem; they're too stupid to realize it.

[guppiecat]

I realize that you're probably going for humor here, but I just wanted to point out that the seemingly common attitude among Democrats that Republicans are stupid is just one more thing that keeps the split widening.

Maybe my recent (and current) experiences with managing people are making me overly sensitive to communication concerns, but there you are.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

Mostly, yes.

Democrats don't believe Republicans are stupid; Republicans believe Democrats are stupid. Democrats believe Republicans are evil.

I believe almost everybody is stupid, but at least I have a lot of evidence.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

Not exactly . . . "Republican" has two disjoint meanings (like drugs[legal classification} <> drugs[medical classification] <> drugs[social classification]).
There are the people who believe in small government, fiscal responsibility, no foreign entanglements, etc. We haven't heard much from them lately, but I keep thinking there are still some of them out there.
Then there is the coterie of sociopathic hyenas who have taken over the party of the name.
I will not do the members of the first category (who are often just ignorant or sheltered, and only sometimes stupid) the dishonor of conflating them with the latter.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

Obviously, my post was a major oversimplification.

But the people who believe in small government, fiscal responsibility, etc. aren't active Republicans, though they may have maintained enrollment in that party. (For that matter, I enroll in parties the American way: insincerely. At any given time, I pick the party whose primaries I want to vote in.)

Stupid Republicans

[hatfield13.livejournal.com]

As the Republican party allies itself with the religious right and the creationists, I must insist that they are, in fact, stupid. If a person believes the world is 4,000 years old, that person is a fucking idiot.

I have no problem with religion (ok, I have lots of problems with it, but I won't go into it here). The belief in a higher power can be a great comfort at times. It does not, however, bestow moral superiority on the believer. My father was a complete atheist. He believed people were a gene's way of reproducing, nothing more. He was also one of the most moral men I have ever known. He did the right thing not from a fear of Hell or a promise of Heaven, but because it was the right thing to do. Compare that to all the chickenhawk priests and prostitute-banging evangelists and talk to me again about "Christian values."

And friggin' face it: believing that the bible is to be taken literally is...what's the word I'm looking for? Oh, yeah: stupid. It's metaphorical. It's apocryphal. It's a pretty poorly written, cobbled together, bunch of tracts, most of which were added or shaped for political gain.

Politics hasn't changed much, and it has always used religion as a tool. And vice versa, of course.

Now Jesus, by all accounts, had a very nice message: Love your neighbor, do unto others, all that. All good ideas. Go with that you evil right-wing cocksuckers (and don't take that the wrong way--what you do in the privacy of International airport bathroom stalls is your own business) instead of trying to jam abstinence only, intelligent design, and the sanctity of marriage down the throats of those of us (ok, maybe not me--but I'm kind of an asshole) who are trying to actually follow the tenets of tolerance, love, and peace that every religion espouses.

Anyway, as to "widening the split." Personally, I'd like it to widen to the point that all the idiots (and yes, they're idiots, don't make me explain again) leave the country. Or move to Idaho. It's roughly the same thing.