from what i’ve read, i think these people need the façade rather than just wanting it. i think they need all that morality pouring into them from an outer source because for whatever reasons, they’re unable to find it inside themselves.

but it could be that i’m being over-charitable here.

iirc, the incumbent democrats in my county all started jumping ship after reagan was elected, and had pretty much all gone over to the dark side by the time gingrich rolled out his contract with [selected parts of] america.

santa rosa… i dunno. when i moved here [the first time], pace, fl was reputed to be listed in the guiness book of world records as the most inbred town in america, so it’s conceivable they’ve belonged to the chimp-factor party since the stone age.

ot: j-i-t sucks and snooker may be a firendly game, but the tables are too big.

If this guy said what he is sworn by the arresting officers to have said, a) he is one sick (expletive), and b) I hope he is prevented from going home (in any sense of the word “home”) for a long, long time.

I think I understand why so many of these people are Republicans. If someone is mentally ill in certain ways, and wants to hide that mental illness behind a façade of (purported) propriety, family values, religious uprightness and moral virtue, what better place than the GOP. Democrats with similar problems would likely simply go get help. Republicans can’t, but apparently don’t need to… it’s accepted in the GOP, as long as it’s concealed. IOKIYAR. To paraphrase an offensive bumper sticker I saw, as they themselves see it, Republicans aren’t perfect, only forgiven.

looks like you guessed right