Let's all mock the stupid person

[layla]

And Orion asks me why I vote against our State Rep., Mike Kelly, at every possible opportunity.

Allow me to present Exhibit A:

http://newsminer.com/2006/12/29/4117

Now it's not JUST that I disagree with him on this particular issue, and it's not that I've never seen these arguments before, considering that they're pretty standard. It's primarily the air of frothing, paranoid idiocy oozing out of the whole opinion piece. (I think perhaps my favorite non-argument is his suggestion that legitimizing gay relationships is a slippery slope to heterosexuals living together without benefit of matrimony. GOOD GOD NOOOO!) This is his fairly standard approach to pretty much every issue that I've ever heard him speak on.

And this is why I intend to continue voting against him until someone (PLEASEFORTHELOVEOFGODPLEASE) defeats him.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, I could only make it about a third of the way through that special piece of brain leakage before I started seeing red. And thinking about things that shouldn't be put online, considering it's about an elected official. Going somewhere else to breathe deeply, now!

[petecas.livejournal.com]

oops, thought I was logged in

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Yeah ... I think it's precisely *because* he's an elected official, and on a fairly high level (locally speaking), that this pisses me off so bad -- I mean, moreso than the same fevered rantings from someone else. It's just ... GRAAAAHHHHH.

[petecas.livejournal.com]

honestly, it sounds like the crazy rantings of an old homeless guy on the bus. You know, the one wearing carhearts that you wouldn't use to insulate a doghouse and the smell that hurts you in the eyes?

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

*laugh* SO TRUE!

But in Alaska, of course, such people can actually get elected to office ...

[dewgeist.livejournal.com]

Whoa. I read this with my mouth hanging open and no sooner than I'd finished I hear "Ohmygod! come down here and listen to this idiot politician on the news. I think he's from Alaska!" Guess who? Yep.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

ahahahaha! How appropos ...

I really cannot understand how this moron keeps getting elected. It's a rather sad statement on the political leanings of the voters in District 7, that's for sure ...

[(Anonymous)]

If I still lived in Alaska, I probably would have voted FOR this guy. I agree with much that he says, because his statements largely coincide with my moral sensibilities.

A good friend of mine (who is an atheist) thinks that every politician should be required to openly state and hold to his religious beliefs, whatever they are. That way, if he gets elected, you can be sure you're seeing democracy in action and deduce that a majority of voters hold similar values. If politics actually worked that way, then voters would have no one to blame but their neighbors when someone they didn't like got elected.

-Sarah D in CA