If, God Forbid, McCain/Palin get elected to the White House, I'ma start hadning out copies of The Handmaid's Tale as a primer on the New American Life.

Joe the Plumber not actually licensed to practice plumbing. (Also, a tax cheat, a fairly hardcore wingnut rather than the undecided voter he was first said to be, and some say a GOP plant. But the "not a real plumber" part somehow amuses me the most.)

The airquotes thing set off white hot rage I haven't felt in a long time.

I've decided to just throw in quotes ANY time he mentions health.

That would make a great Obama commercial. The McCain "Health" Plan, McCain's concern for the "health" of our economy...

Joe the Plumber not actually licensed to practice plumbing.

Professional licenseing? That's just gummint interference in the lives of hard working murricans.

Aw man, amych beats me with the Joe the Plumber not a plumber breaking news!

Should sex only be allowed in very controlled circumstances to make implantation as likely as possible? If not, you are putting the lives of people at risk.

Yep. Are you a breeding-age female? Sorry, no coffee for you. Coffee has been shown to slightly up the chances of killing your pre-birth abdominally residing human. Are you planning on breast-feeding your post-birth baby? Sorry, but if you are breast-feeding, there's still a chance you'll ovulate, and a fertilized ovum is less likely to implant successfully in a breast-feeding mother. So by breast-feeding one baby, you could be killing the next one. Are you a female between the ages of 11 and 55? Many medicines and diagnostic treatments, such as x-rays, are out for you. There's a chance that they'd put the human in your abdomen at risk, and as you won't know that you're pregnant for weeks, you'll just have to live with that cancer/broken bone/bladder infection/pneumonia/abscess/mental illness, etc. And as for jobs, boy howdy. Don't even think about anything that could put six fertilized cells in your abdomen at risk. Stress may cause some miscarriages, so any jobs that have stressful aspects, such as, well, nearly all of them, would be right out.

Look, women, just starve in sick, yet fertile righteousness already.

From legislating when life begins to where prayer should occur to funding a fucked up war that is not working to wanting to be interventionist around the world to nationalizing banks.... it's all about MORE government.

I think this is hurting McCain's message. We've had 8 years of Republican smaller government advocates who have expanded government and government debt (measured as percent of GDP which I think is a better number than straight dollars) like crazy. Before that was 8 years of a Democrat who didn't have any big expansion of government and reduced the debt. Before that 12 years of Republicans overseeing another big expansion of debt. I don't think people are buying another Republican saying he's going to shrink government and eliminate the deficit.

Really shrinking the government would hurt, we'd need big cuts in medical benefits, defense, education, and HUD to really make a difference. Neither candidate is being serious about reducing government, but McCain is pretending that he is.

Apparently Joe-not-the-Plumber is also related to Charles Keating.

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Sarah Palin's nephew is autistic...I've seen no sign that she really gives a fuck(any poster child in a storm, right?) But nobody got confused about Trig. (I hate this chick...how do I know this?)

Because you know most things, Erika. It is your blessing and your curse.