Forget godliness, plug potholes
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Editor,
Republicans need to “get godly” if they want to turn things around, preached an infamous duck slayer to a GOP congregation. Just how much godly is enough for TEA puritans? A dollop of godly goes a long way but a gallon gets god-awful ugly, as witnessed in Iraq, Iran, Ireland, etc.
A Republican primary winner for Ravalli County Commissioner stated on TV, “I believe in God. I believe in family values.” Elected yokels ought to believe in maintaining roads, appointing competent civil servants and protecting vital healthcare facilities. Their genuflection to magical divinities is irrelevant. Likewise, private family decisions are not their concern. Just plug the potholes already.
A Republican Senator in Ohio who confessed he’s “not a doctor” concocted a law banning insurance coverage for IUDs based on his erroneous conception that IUDs are equivalent to abortion. Ipso-facto, whenever a man ejaculates outside a fertile woman he must be castigated nay, castrated, for slaughtering pre-unborns. That might inspire male lawmakers to zip up their zealotry. (I encourage female lawmakers to adopt “pre-unborns” as the new sperm term.)
Science denier and Montana Senate candidate Steve Daines (R) is profoundly pro-life for pre-borns while fervently pro-death for post-borns. He’d sooner shut down the government (again) than permit Medicaid expansion in Montana.
As ultraconservatives strive to out-godly themselves, they abandon reasonable solutions to tangible problems. We must dispose of this rubbish. Vote Democratic for rational candidates who will fix infrastructure, confront climate change, expand Medicaid and generate jobs. Spurn delusory, tea-sodden Republicans who do nothing but saber-rattle, champion obstruction, glorify ignorance and arouse sanctimony.
Wanda LaCroix
Arlee
