On Coulter, Obama, identity groups and maniacs

Some political Rant-Nuggetts pulled from the headlines:

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Ann Coulter used a conservative convention over the weekend to say she’d like to call John Edwards a faggot, but then she’d be sent off to re-education camp by the PC police. The comment’s provocative, as is her meme, but is also stupid, juvenile and unfunny, which is usually not her MO. The tempest in a teacup it produced provided invaluable publicity for Ms. Coulter, though it also cost her some advertisers.

File under “there’s no such thing as bad publicity…”

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The NYT has an article today following some of Barack Obama’s suspicious financial dealings. What will be next, the Times running a story on how it has information about a secret government national security program, but has decided NOT to run with it in the best interest of the country?

There is a lot of time until next year’s primaries…a lot of time for the airing of dirty laundry, smears and faux-outraged condemnations. If anyone makes it to primary season with an unsullied reputation, it will be a miracle (or a candidate who stands ZERO chance of being elected.) I think the people who are clearly interested in running in 2008 but have not yet declared are following the smart route…avoiding the inevitable bloodbath until the last possible instant.

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I’ve decided I resent being lumped in with an identity group…perhaps it’s arrogance on my part…but it ticks me off that politicians candidly talk about tailoring their positions for various groups.

I’m fiscally conservative, but am not in lockstep with others who describe themselves so; I’m somewhat socially liberal, though I regularly condemn many positions held by the left; I’m a strong environmentalist who questions the science behind the ‘man is causing global warming’ crowd. With apologies to Winston Churchill, I must be “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma…”

That’s why I hope for a little honesty and plain-speaking in politics (if wishes were fishes…). Forgo the carefully crafted speeches to appeal to each identity group at each separate venue – they don’t apply to me. Tell me who you are and what you stand for in no uncertain terms and THEN I can make an informed decision when I cast my vote. Today’s drift in politics seems to be to try to blur the line between all candidates so everyone seems to stand for everything for everyone, with name recognition and mudslinging as the only deciding factors.

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I wish we had the technology they used in The Fifth Element to reconstruct a living person from the few living cells they could find after a crash. If we had such science, I would use it to resurrect this piece of sh*t so I could kill him over and over again, ad infinitum, in ever more painful ways. It’s bad enough that he threw a temper tantrum and tried to bump off his mother in law by crashing a plane into her house, but I just don’t see how anyone could willingly and maliciously take the life of their child.

It almost makes me wish I believed there was a Hell, because I’d like to think this guy was spending the rest of eternity in soul-rending agony in its deepest pits.