[Rhodes22-list] Politics - more republican hypocrisy

[Herb Parsons]

So Pete, is that the lemonaide flavored kool-aide?

Exotic and different is a valid description.
What a person eats has nothing to do with being a "quintessential 
American story", what they do, does.

Being a radical, unpatriotic, 'secret' anything has nothing to do with a 
person's name. It has to do with what they do, and what motivates their 
actions.
Naming your kids has nothing to do with whether or not your a maverick.

Where you graduated from has nothing to do with stability.
Being well-grounded in your 40's is hardly reflected by what you did in 
your 20's.

I think you see the trend here.

New phrase for the day - non sequitur

Palin's really got you and yours worried, huh? It's really fun to watch.

petelargo wrote:
> If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic,
> different." 
> Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story. 
>  
> If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic 'secret' Muslim. 
> Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you're a maverick. 
>  
> Graduate from Harvard law School and be President of the Law Review, and you
> are unstable. 
> Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded. 
>
> If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, create a voter registration
> drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional
> Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with
> over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human
> Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a
> state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the
> Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs
> committees, you don't have any real leadership experience. 
> If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and
> 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the
> governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to
> become the country's second highest ranking executive. 
>
> If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2
> daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian. 
> If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your
> disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian. 
>
> If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the
> proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society. If, while
> governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other  option in
> sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter
> ends up pregnant, you're very responsible. 
>
> If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a
> prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community,
> then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent
> America's. 
> If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with a DUI conviction and no
> college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a
> member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the U.S., your
> family is extremely admirable. 
>
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