The Homestretch

Bryant S Brazeal
November 5 2006, 12:12PM

What I hope this week's array of "political incidents" does is to encourage the LGBT community to vote on November 7th. The fate of the LGBT community rests in the hands of some very slim majorities in many critical campaigns. While we may all be tempted to find glee in the lastest replubican scandals, Karl Rove, Rick Santorum, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld are hoping that the independent voters will link Ted Haggarts' behavior to the fact that he is gay. They are also hoping that John Kerry's botched joke will reinforce their slogan that Democrats are soft on terror. Finally, while Saddam Hussein's guilty verdict was not unexpected, it does change the subject to the war on terror, which is a topic that the Republicans would have splashed across the Monday morning headlines, the day before the elections.

What the readers of this blog can do is to make sure that they vote Tuesday morning. I urge each of readers of this blog to get up Tuesday morning with a resignation to vote.

jared
November 5 2006, 1:32PM

of course they planned it, but, it might be too little too late as the public as a whole if fed up with anything related to iraq. that said, its going to be the turnout that matters. i wonder if this mid-term election will get more than the usual 40% or less turnout? i think that the moderates and liberals are more fed up with bush and his cronies than his has of "evangelicals" are. his one note trick of blasting gays might get them out, but, who really knows. as for john kerry, will someone tell him to go away? he is just in the way. as i did my early voting, i looked at who was running, and sadly, most aren't that much better than the repugnant's, so, as usual, the lesser of two evils, and hopefully the sane citizens of the usa will repudiate the message of hate and divisiveness of bush and his fascists, racists gop'ers.

manchild1
November 5 2006, 3:18PM

Yeah ,death by hanging seems a little raw to me. They
were all on CNN talking about the voilence this is
going to cause...and somebody said if he is guilty of
crimes against humanity..isn't George Bush...
this is definitely political and even one of the
US attorneys on the case said so...its sad,but whats
sadder is alot of people still not going to vote...they
feel whats the use...Bushie has got that sewn up too.
I just want election day to come and go...so that
both sides can stop it

gs
November 5 2006, 5:25PM

I doubt that the Sadaam verdict was timed and I doubt that it will cause more votes to swing towards the republicans. That's silly. I'm a republican, and honestly I think with the biased media and all the mud slinging, it's gonna take more than just a Sadaam verdict for the right to hold onto Congress. Americans don't like war and the democrats and left leaning media has done a good job in driving home to Americans doom and gloom with the war. Now, the real story will be to see if the Senate turns over to the democrats too. I don't believe it has ever happened that the Congress changes and the Senate does not. Now that would say something about where America is thinking if the Senate remains Republican led but the congress changes. Also, I have a suspect that Nancy Pelosi's life as leader of the HOuse will be a living hell and the republicans will slam her. Shes too far left and it'll get exposed if she doesn't play her cards right....especially with the big boys in corporate america.

playboyadonis
November 5 2006, 5:48PM

If I were not gay I would miss all the world news. Keith you keep me informed. I am going to the poll for Tuesday's election especially since Ohio must decide whether we want smoking in public places. We must also decide if Ohio should overturn laws that prevent people from smoking in work places as well. (My co-workers could blaze up at the desk next to me if that law is not passed)

Sadaam's verdict seems light. People who do criminal acts on this level deserve a 3 or 5 part sequence that leads to death. History before our eyes. Obama in the White House or Osama in the big house.....I wonder what's going to happen next.

chris-leo
November 5 2006, 6:10PM

for those who've taken their eyes off the prize, this ad gets right to the point and completely takes the mojo out of the whole "family values" schitck, parroted by the GOP. it's clean and simple, even a little sentimental, but it gets right to the point of why this election is so important.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eaporFgSyKQ

Steve
November 6 2006, 9:25AM

Keith, if we didn't already know about the Republican hypocrisy of living in glass houses, we would have to be deaf, blind and DUMB.

C. Baptiste-Williams
November 6 2006, 12:25PM

I believe Sadaam's verdict will have little affect on the polls tomorrow. I mean his own country is torn about what should happen to him and as the violence continues... the deaths keep adding up... the focus will be on our troops and bringing them home instead of if and when Sadaam will ever be hanged.

taylor Siluwé
November 6 2006, 1:53PM

... yes, the moralists can be taken down, I couldn't agree more.

We already know that those who holla about this sin and that, are always committing them compulsively. And then they don their faux pious faces and look down their noses at the rest of us, sinners.

But their closets are never fully closed, and I applaud that prostitute for yanking Haggert's wide open. I hope more follow his lead.