who you are

Dear Mitt,

America was promised that the RNC Convention would tell us who the “real Mitt Romney” was and is. The people who were responsible for producing this event assured us that the “real Mitt” would be showcased and any doubt or question we held in the past would be whisked away. I am not a fan of yours but hoped at least I could warrant my distaste for you and find myself correct in my negative feelings for you or have that moment of how did I miss that and find you actually had both a soul and conscience.

The RNC Convention provided a cadre of speakers proclaiming allegiance toward you but few actually pronounced in clear terms your merits to be president, instead shouting loud and proud why Obama should not be the man in the White House. Many of the manicured Republican/Tea Party maven managed the microphone well enough to spew the Party propaganda but few looked into the cameras to tell me Mitt is the man. Again, repeating myself Mitt, more time was spent on why the President should not be president and very little about why you should.

Then it happened, finally a wee part of your history was revealed. Your reluctance to mention that you are a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints while on the political stump was mentioned at the Convention and to coin a phrase I am sure makes you shudder, your religious beliefs came out of the closet for at least a teeny bit. And we learned how your religion is a keystone in your life. By disclosing this information, Mitt I had a few questions. (Isn’t  part of getting to know you, the ability to then sit around drinking soda pop and asking questions).How can you be a man of all the people when in fact your religion discriminates toward a segment of All the people who happen to be Gay? How will you respect your Bible but also respect the Constitution? 

We heard Ann gush about the great husband you have been, what a terrific and devoted son you were, and of course how you could win the Father of the Year Award if in fact one was to be given out. All commendable Mitt, but then a few more questions arise.(Don’t you hate that part about running for Prez and not CEO that your peons, err I mean public gets to ask questions.) With all your family “stuff” being so important to you, why do you insist that loving families not created of  one heterosexual man and women should not experience all the wonderment you have enjoyed. Why do you propose that Gays shouldn’t marry, should not adopt kids, are second class and deserve none of the blessings Ann, your kids and friends have clamored are so important and integral to you being, Mitt Romney. How can family be so vital as to define you as the man you are when you in turn are so selfish in sharing that joy that gift?

In fact Mitt your PR team your team of Mad Men helped define you, at least in my eyes. And what I saw Mitt confirmed the hypocrite you really have been and are. You have a fooled  bunch of people into supporting you, but not because  of you more so because of hate for the other. The thing Mitt after learning more about you I see there is not other side to you and you remain a scary, scary man.

roger williams

Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will. (Roger Williams)

One of Williams’ beliefs had caused particular grief among the authorities. He argued that an individual Christian would know when he was saved, but could not know about the salvation of others. Therefore, it was senseless to require a religious qualification for voting. In essence, Williams was calling for the complete separation of church and state, a position that undercut the authority of the church and civic leaders.

Roger Williams founded the state of Rhode Island.

If you get past the pomp and circumstance of the televised version of the RNC convention. If you get beyond the made for television production filled with red, white and blue. You will get the the platform of the RNC. You will see the close and closer attachment, the cozy relationship the Republicans with the aid of their puppet masters the Tea Party have with religion. And then you may be shocked to discover that Christianity, Evangelical Christianity ‘do as I say, not as I do’ Christianity is ready to become the law of the land. 

MARRIAGE: The platform affirms the rights of states and the federal government not to recognize same-sex marriage. It backs a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

ABORTION:The party states that "the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed." It opposes using public revenues to promote or perform abortion or to fund organizations that perform or advocate abortions. It says the party will not fund or subsidize health care that includes abortion coverage.

The RNC is all about small government, but loves being big about bossing you about regarding personal freedoms. The fact that we even have had discussion about what type of rape is real rape, the conclusion that the institution of marriage is doomed due to same-sex-marriage should worry us all. Arizona has joined five other states declaring that it is the American way to offer a Bible class (just the Old and New Testaments of course) in our public high schools. Go to school in Louisiana and Texas and you can find that creationism is  a part of the curriculum.

Ask Rick Santorum who spoke at the RNC Convention, and the slew of delegates voting for the next Republican nominee and they will explain to you that the Founding Fathers never really ever wanted a divide between church and state. It is a made up fact, made up by who else Liberals.

This new brand of Republicans dressed in tri-cornered hats, with tea bags draped next to their guns want an America that reads like chapter and verse in their own hypocritical Bible. They want a country filled with people like them and if there are any dissenting folk the choice for them is easy assimilate or break a law and go to hell, err I mean jail. They will tell you Jesus authored the Bill of Rights.

Roger Williams was correct when he said, “Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will.” This election may seem to be about the economy, but when so much time is spent on forcing God into the conversation and then trying to act as that God there is more on the line then he economy.

How foolish to think the speeches spoken on television during the Convention have any meaning. With most of this new breed of Republican politician forget the word and beware of their dirty deceiving deeds.

no clothes

I know you are voting Republican/Tea Party because the only issue of the decade is the economy. Romney and Ryan tell us they will bring Cap back in Capitalism, and keep America from the evils of socialism. And as you keep your head in the sand, refusing to scan the horizon around you, when in fact you vote Republican/Tea Party you get some of this: Texas GOP recently declared, in the 2012 party platform, that it is opposed to teaching critical thinking skills to children on the grounds that it undermines "parental authority.” When you support Romney and Ryan the residual and residue result in Republicans/Tea Partiers who have decided critical thinking is plot to rid parents of any responsibility in raising their kids. Not true, take a peek at the priorities of Republican/Tea Party dominated state legislatures and watch just how little has been done help the economy. But how much more has stopped women from their own reproductive rights, education programs from growing and voter from being denied the right to vote.

I know you are voting Republican/Tea Party because Barack Hussein sounds like a Muslim name and in fact must be. This is  Christian nation and only those who believe in Jesus have the right to be president. I know Romney/Ryan will bring back God to the nation. They hate abortion, Gays, poor people and know immigrants are just lazy humans trying to cheat real Americans. And as you keep your ears focused on the rhetoric from ministers of hate preaching from churches of disdain for anyone considered “other”, when in fact you vote Republican/Tea Party here is what you get: Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who claims that God himself declares the whole global warming scare to be a "hoax": "Well actually the Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that “as long as the earth remains there will be springtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.” When you support Romney/Ryan those true American white guys you get the rust dripping from old ideas that refuse to allow truth to shine on the fact of life of tis planet. You get denial that too much carbon, too much pollution, too much abuse of the land has any, any, any consequences.

I know you are voting Republican/Tea Party because a black man has run this nation amok. He has seen the individual as more important then the community. He has said words like free, equal, rights instead of you don’t deserve it, wealthy is what is America is all about. And when you vote for Romney/Ryan two guys who love to divide, exclude you also get: Todd Akin women could not get pregnant from a rapist's seed because their bodies had some sort of elaborate, hormonal fail-safe system that had never, ever, ever been observed in the natural world but it sure sounds awesome so, why not? When you support Romney/Ryan you get speeches filled with America for all, but laws and plans that restrict some Americans from getting anything at all.

There is a much bigger question then just voting for Romney/Ryan. Try and get a commitment from these men as how they will govern this nation. Ask for facts, simple plans on paper as to what their term in office will look like. Look at the states whose Republican/Tea Party led Congresses and watch how ALL citizens of those states DO NOT receive equal justice under the law. If most Republican/Tea Party candidates and current elected officials only spend time with the FOX fools acting as journalists and will  not speak to anyone else, it just might be because everyone else sees the emperor without clothes and that site is soooooooooooo scary!

So you want to vote Romney/Ryan/Republican/Tea Party, really?

if

If the truth sets you free why does Mitt Romney seem so burdened by admitting it? If Mitt IS the man to be the next President why is finding out any truth about his past so difficult to learn? If Romney is the answer to all the evil that has befallen this nation why does he continue to avoid the truth in both his ads for president as well as his speeches on the stump?

If the Republican/Tea Party philosophy is the correct path for America why are so many Republican/Tea Party state legislators passing bills limiting or denying votes for its citizens? If the Republican/Tea Party says it IS the party for all Americans why are they always finding laws to discriminate against some of those Americans? If the Republican/Tea Party is about limiting Government, why are they expanding their reach into our bedrooms, love lives and homes?

If one is running for president, a person who has the potential power to change the ways Americans thrive, why is it not the right of ALL Americans to ask as many questions about his/her background as we wish. If America is a land priding itself on democracy why do some with more money have more sway in the government and perhaps the final say on how the government governs? If finding a common answer, a common purpose, a common cause for America, why is it so much easier to travel to the further edges of a political party?

If IT IS ABOUT THE ECONOMY, STUPID, why are so many laws regulating women’s bodies the first priority on the agendas for Republican/Tea Party controlled state legislatures. If IT IS ABOUT THE ECONOMY STUPID, why are Republican/Tea Party Congress People in office spending more time on calling some a Muslim Brotherhood supporter, a member of the Communist Party, placing bills to stop Sharia Law? If IT IS ABOUT THE ECONOMY STUPID, why are most of the bills introduced always related to social issues, the social services, and anything with health and welfare for the poor, the elderly and the unemployed?

If you vote for Mitt Romney why are you satisfied that he avoids and refuses to answer questions any presidential candidate should be required to do. If you want Mitt Romney to be president why do you provide him with a pass on anything personal. Mitt, if president will have the ability to initiate laws regarding our most personal aspect of life. If all you hear is the economy how do you find fairness from a political party who wants to deny freedoms, restrict fairness and at time eliminate equality?

I am scared of Karl Rove, the Koch Brothers, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Todd Akin, Dick Cheney, because none of these individuals see further then their own selfish needs and desires. I am afraid of Mitch McConnell, Steve King, Sean Hannity, Michelle Bachmann, Alan West, John Bolton because these men and women want political power while destroying any power for the average people. I am terrified that Romney/Ryan become President/Vice President because all of the name I have mentioned above will be the people who with others just like them will set policy in this nation.

If you have women in your life love and respect them...if you have sons/daughters, sisters/brothers who among other things happen to be Gay and you love and respect them...if your parents are reaching retirement or are living on meager pensions and you love and respect them...if you know a teacher, a fire fighter, a police man an earner of minimum wage and you love and respect them...if you believe in your God, and practice your religion your way...if any of these examples or the million more that exist mean nothing at all and you still want to vote for Romney/Ryan have you asked what IF they are elected and what WILL become of this nation? 

truth, anything but

When I was young a visit to my Grandpa Buncher’s home was far from  exciting for a Sunday afternoon adventure. Grandpa Buncher was effusive in telling my sister and I how big we were getting or how smart we were, but after the initial kisses, hugs and compliments most conversation directed by him would shut down. We would all sit in the living room, my parents talking to my aunts and usually my sister Francie and I could be found in a comatose state watching Grandpa Buncher watching TV. As it happened that one long Sunday afternoon a local news bulletin interrupted the already boring adventure show stating that Negros (it was 1957) had just robbed a white persons jewelry store. The store in question happened to be two store fronts away from my Grandfather’s Tailor Shop. The owner of the jewelry story was speaking to the reporter saying those Negros had been casing his place of business for awhile. Then continued by saying he knew when more then two of THEM congregated in front of his store he was sure they were up to no good.  The final conclusion this man made was go with your gut you know what is right and what is wrong, do something before it is too late.

A noise came from my Grandfathers throat so guttural, so deep so harsh my parents stopped their conversation with my aunts, my sister and I jumped up and we all assumed my Grandfather was having a heart attack. My Grandfather snapped at me, Gerry, shut off that television, now. He had never barked orders. And then without any hesitation my Grandfather said three words, fanatik, durachit, schmuck... the first two Russian for bigot, fool, the latter idiot in Yiddish.

My Grandpa then went on looking at my parents and aunts at first saying that the jewelry shop owner is not the victim here but the instigator. He chases anyone who has dark skin from his store, he criticizes Jews wearing black coats as Communists, he yells as the youngsters stop to tie their shoes in front of his store. He has told me this is the Shady Side neighborhood, too many Jews seem to be shopping here, let them stay in their own neighborhood of Squirrel Hill. He says what is wrong with America, too many others think they own the place. My Grandpa then looked directly at my sister and I with such severe intensity we thought his eyes were going to pop out of head, and said, a terrible thing happened to this man indeed, but his crimes of hate are just as wrong. “If you invent the enemy and his crimes you will never understand the truth.” There was silence in the room, my father gave my Grandpa a shot of schnapps and slowly the atmosphere returned to semi- boredom. 

For a while all that resonated with me was the idea of creating the enemy and the crime and not seeking the truth. I had thought that truth, being truth was solid, unbreakable, something unshakeable. And that day my Grandpa said you could invent it. It took many years to understand just how vulnerable the truth really was. 

The truth has been shattered, shook, and sinisterly obliterated in this election year. The truth of the matter has been replaced with a matter of fact that fiction and falsehood can stand as equals with the truth. Base you fiction on the Bible. Base your family’s misperceptions of real on selfish hate. Base the denial of honest because the facts don’t weigh in your favor. But somehow as my Grandpa said in 1957 “If you invent the enemy and his crimes you will never understand the truth.”

The truth invented and the crimes that follow in the year 2012:

It's November 7th, 2012, and a re-elected Barack Obama has just handed over the sovereignty of the United States to the United Nations, sparking a civil war. Lubbock County, Texas, Judge Tom Head’s interview on FOX 34 News.

 “It seems to be, first of all, from what I understand from doctors, it’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down.” Missouri Congressman Todd Akin.

Accusations by Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., that an Islamist group has infiltrated the U.S. government are drawing fierce criticism from fellow lawmakers and religious groups. Bachmann and four other GOP legislators have sent letters to five government agencies citing “serious security concerns” about what Bachmann has called a “deep penetration in the halls of our United States government” by the Muslim Brotherhood.

These men and women are elected officials with the duty to uphold the laws, the morals, the values of the United States, but somehow have no difficulty in shaking the foundations of truth. And none of them have shown any remorse in doing do.

values

As the RNC committee responsible for establishing their list of planks (the  platform for their party heading into 2012) added an anti-abortion manifesto. This manifesto made it clear that no matter what the circumstance, no matter the type of rape (can you believe we now are having a discussion on the TYPE of Rape) no abortion is okee-doe-kee. Reince Preibus RNC Chair said loudly and proudly the GOP is and  always has been a party about LIFE and FAMILY VALUES. He spoke in that used car salesmen tone, with little affect, no emotion and saying the words so fast in hopes that what was just said went by your ears too fast to decipher. 

In Republican/Tea Party jargon also known as double speak, a party of LIFE interprets as having the zygote survive, the embryo live but once the child is delivered, no more concern for the kind of LIFE she/he lives. Not true, well then consider, the cuts to head start programs,cutting backs for nutrition programs, insisting that fair health care for all is a form of socialized medicine. Dwell into the cut backs in Pell Grants, the insistence that minimum wage for kids is way too much money, the cut back of educational programs, the size of classrooms. LIFE inside the womb must be protected so say these Republican/Tea Party self proclaimed guardians of God, but once the water breaks it is up to anyone else but them to clean up the mess.

In Republican/Tea Party parlance FAMILY VALUES mean the values only they the identifiers of morals deemed derived from God promote. But of course not just any God,the God they pray to. FAMILY VALUES don’t include LGBT families who may want to adopt unloved, abandoned child. Nope better have that child stay in an abusive family or an orphanage. FAMILY VALUES in Republican/Tea Party blabber mean no extension of unemployment benefits due to laziness by the bread winner in the at family in the first place. No regulations for banks, lenders in help of saving your house from being foreclosed. FAMILY VALUES in Republican/Tea Party slang FAMILY VALUES translate into keep the poor families poor, hungry and working longer with less social security as you age. Oh, yeah and only heterosexual.

On Tuesday the Republican/Tea Party stayed their course of exclusion, and denial. They pretend that big government is too big except when it comes to social issues. They claim they are the party of the people, but very selective of which people that might be. They claim LIFE and FAMILY VALUES are the core of their existence, but limit exactly whose LIFE and which FAMILY’s they VALUE.

On Tuesday the RNC began it chores of writing its plank, the rules and regulations, the laws, the codes by which it plans to govern this nation if they become the majority party in power In November the American people hopefully will have decided that words are not as good as deeds, and deeds on LIFE and FAMILY VALUES are not limited by the rants and hypocrisy of the RNC.

rape, just a word

Rape is a kind of gift from God full of good, the woman being raped is bad.

Mike Huckabee to Todd Akin: 'Horrible' rapes created some extraordinary people. The former Arkansas governor and onetime GOP presidential contender suggested a couple of cases in which he suggested that rapes, though “horrible tragedies,” had produced admirable human beings. (LA Times)

Except your gift ma’lady go with the flow. This man you didn’t know, don’t love, this brute, this bully, this beast forget his his brutish ways and make his sperm donation a gift. It may be your body, but you are a carrier not the owner of it. No choice to make ma’am, God knows better then you and we, people like me, Mike (I once ran for President Huckabee am God’s spokesperson. It will make your pain disappear, rape, s’hmape make lemon aid from lemons.

The ever quotable Rep. Steve King became one of the only conservative leaders to lend credence to Rep. Todd Akin’s explosive comments on rape and abortion yesterday when he told an Iowa TV station that he hasn’t heard of someone getting pregnant from rape or incest. “Well, I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way, and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter,”

Rape may happen, but unless I have seen it, it is similar to that elusive unicorn, just living in someone’s imagination.

The ever quotable Rep. Steve King became one of the only conservative leaders to lend credence to Rep. Todd Akin’s explosive comments on rape and abortion yesterday when he told an Iowa TV station that he hasn’t heard of someone getting pregnant from rape or incest. “Well, I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way, and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter,”(Salon)

A good Christian home would certainly never include incest, certainly IF incest even exists it must be from those people who well to be blunt are not Christian, or good. If I haven’t seen it how can I defend it. If it is not in the Bible then how could it be real. If I keep my eyes closed never once peeking into the reality of society I need not see those kind of things. Lets discuss this issue of rape, well when it happens in front of me. And further more if a loving Dad has intercourse with his daughter how the hell is that rape?

Rape, why should anyone brave enough to talk about this brutal, inhuman action, and the silly women who let it happen to them, be subjected to harangue or hassle?

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said he will continue to stand by embattled Missouri Rep. Todd Akin (R) if Akin chooses to remain in his race for the U.S. Senate against Sen. Claire McCaskill. “If Todd Akins wants to stay in the race, I will continue to support him,” TonyPerkins (Family Research Council President) said in an interview. “I think his comments were indefensible. I think they were inappropriate. He’s acknowledged as such. But you know, when others have made mistakes, you haven’t seen the entire Republican establishment abandon him. I think it’s somewhat suspect.”(The washington Post)

Its not the intention behind the words used to describe the types of rape, it is just silly selection of those words. A few misplaced words about should not disqualify anyone from being a Senator those are just words not like they will be placed into a law. It is Mr. Akins who is embattled for admitting that women who get raped actually embrace the sexual intercourse. This man was speaking his conscience don’t defend those women who without any conscience ask to be raped.

Todd Akin, Mike Huckabee, Steve King, Tony Perkins all are loud and proud spokespeople representing the Tea Party/Republican Party of 2012. These men will be a part of the deal makers, the law creators, the back room bullies, the not so quiet wise guys ready to remove any and all freedoms and rights they deem Un-American. They seem like fools, but then look closely at the majority of men and women running for power in this nation other fools who insist...dinosaurs lived with men, this nation is a Christian land...Gays are out to convert all children, teachers, firefighter, police are the cause of the large deficit...tax cuts for the wealthy create jobs...Obama is a Kenyan...we have Dems in the Congress who are Commie/Pinkos...an electrified fence will not only keep those Mexicans from our borders making employment easier for the white man...and women are chattel, God said so!

And it is still about the economy stupid? How stupid are you if you believe that!