Is that why tornadoes really hit places like Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Alabama so hard?
Why aren't Massachusetts, California, Maryland, New York, and other places in Tornado Alley? Oh, OK - of course God us using a DROUGHT to punish Californians. I see.
I thought that God's way - if He really IS the malevolent and wrathful being that some want us to believe - was to directly punish the "sinners."
There was once a time, and not all that long ago, that I could have been persuaded to vote Republican "at the top." I was pretty pissed off at Clinton in late 1996, and it didn't have anything to do with a blue dress. No, his gung-ho support of NAFTA, ending "Welfare as [the poor] know it" (corrected for truth, as nothing was done about welfare lavished on corporations and such), and Telecommunications Act of 1996 which allowed megacorporations to accumulate as many radio and TV stations as they wanted with only scant limitations, really did turn me off to Clinton. I came close to voting for Robert Dole in 1996.
There is no way in hell that today's Republican Party will persuade me to vote for them unless, possibly, I have somebody putting a loaded gun to my head.
And I am plenty pissed off with Obama right now - though I'll quickly admit he has been very supportive of gay rights (though having started very tepidly with it) compared to some Republicans who would fire up the gas chambers as quickly as they could if they had their way; and would I rather have Kagan and Sotomayor on the Supreme Court than McCain's possible nominations of people like Phyllis Schafly or Rick Santorum?
As Sarah Palin says, and I'll gladly quote her, "You bet'cha!"
I mention possible McCain nominations, not possible Romney nominations, because (1) no vacancies have occurred during what would have been Romney's term, and (2) if McCain had won, he would have been the incumbent and, presumably, no Romney emerging as the nominee from the Republican Convention in 2012.
