Well it's all over for now...watched you packing it in
last week and heading back to your little house in Penn Hills Pa and getting the
kids back into our public schools...wait...come to think of it, you never really
did live there, you just used that address so the folks in Penn Hills would pay
to educate the kids...but they actually have been home schooled with the new
cyber programs. But what the heck, you let the Penn Hills people pick up the
tab. I had forgotten about all that.
I was thinking that maybe you dropped out of the GOP race
before the election next week in PA because a lot of us here just weren't ever
going to vote for you. You made some really dumb comparisons about gay people
and animals, and you said some really stupid things about public education and
college and stuff like that. You also made women pretty angry with your ideas
about who should make decisions about their bodies and careers, and then
trashing JFK's thoughts about keeping religion out of politics sounded kinda
crazy Rick. Your views about science scared a lot of people as well, you seemed
just a few decades behind on that one.
But you know Rick there was one thing that I'd really
forgotten about while you were campaigning this time. That was about you going
down to Florida and getting involved with the Terri Schiavo case. Talk about
government intrusion into personal lives...Rick you made things so much worse
for everyone involved there. This was a horrible tragedy for everyone involved,
and you added to the pain. People have suggested that you also just "happened to
be there" for a fundraiser, but I hope you didn't take advantage of the
situation. You even got congress involved with this sad family
issue.
I wonder how you would have felt when your family had to
make the decision about whether or not your wife should have labor induced
before your son was stillborn? That was such an awfully private matter....what
if some senator had taken your case on...and brought it to national
attention...and tried to make you do what they wanted? You and your family were
afforded the privacy that every one of us deserves in such painful and critical
moments in our lives. Just as you've denied so many others the basic respect of
all humanity, you denied a mother,father,husband, and wife the one thing
that they needed the most.
So Rick, it was best that you gave up....while I don't know
if you could have won Pennsylvania or not, be assured that there are lots of us
who have steel-trap memories of you from the past, and parts of that past are
both scary and disgusting. Perhaps another time. Perhaps.
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