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Article via Wonkette. Key quotation from Tom DeLay:

"Americans 'have been tolerant of homosexuality for years, but now it's being stuffed down their throats and they don't like it.'"

Alternate quotations (several courtesy of friend Paul):

"Americans are sick of having juicy tasty cocks stuffed down their throats."

"Americans are sick of homosexuals ramming and thrusting."

"Americans are tired of having hot, hard man-meat shoved up their asses."

"Americans are sick of the soft butterfly kisses on their vaginas from lipstick lesbians."

 

I've been trying not to talk politics too much here, but I can't help commenting today. It's with a little bit of sadness that I hear about Howard Dean's [inevitable] dropping out of the race. Ever since I first heard him speak in the West Village last spring, I felt he really was the only candidate whom I didn't simply see as the "lesser evil," particularly back then after the war had just started. Contrary to article after miserable article, six o'clock news story after six o'clock news story, it wasn't just his "anger" that I related to -- he offered a vision that jived with me: a pragmatic plan for getting health care for everybody, commonsense fiscal policy, even support for civil unions.

But even though I personally liked Dean, I think I always knew the rest of the country wasn't ready for him. I guess that's where the sadness comes in, because it underscores that, even though I've felt politically in sync with the last three places I've lived -- Cambridge, Western Massachusetts, and New York -- my views are wildly out of step with the rest of the country's.

So instead of feeling like I'm voting for something, it's back to rooting against, with two safe and pretty candidates who vote in safe ways and don't yell into microphones.

Well, it was fun while it lasted.