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Freedom by Right

So the good political news about living in Pennsylvania is I get to vote against America's most reprehensible Senator, Rick Santorum, in the fall.

The bad news is that it can be a perfectly beautiful day and I'll come home to find this on my front door:

Freedom by Right
We don't live in America
America lives in US

1) Protect, defend and obey the Constitution for th U.S. which is based on Biblical principles.
2) [blah blah reduce taxes blah blah]
    Restore morality - return prayer and the Ten Commandments
    Restore resposibility - Abortion is not a form of birth control
    [blah blah 2nd amendment blah blah]

Jim Barr for State Representative 20th Legislative District

I'll give it this: it's better copy edited than most wacko right wing tracts. However, properly placed commas are not enough to swing my vote to Jim Barr and his we-hate-abortion "consitution party." In fact, stacks of thousand dollar bills wouldn't be enough.

Icky Rick

Once upon a time I thought Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter was a radical right-winger who had to be stopped. Not anymore. Arlen is a Republican, sure, but in terms of Pennyslvania Senators he's my hero, a voice of moderate reason.

Because the other Senator from Pennsylvania is Rick Santorum.

Maybe you don't know Santorum, a man who is against birth control, against abortion, against stem cell research and against Darwin. He's not nice to the poor, he's not nice to the environment, and he's awfully nice to the freaks at the far fringe of the right wing. He's so atrocious that Dan Savage's readers voted to use his name to describe, er, a certain sexual effluvium.

Rick Santorum will be debating his Democratic opponent, Bob Casey, Jr., on September 3rd on "Meet the Press." While Casey is to the right of mainstream democrats, he's still better than Santorum, who has been called "the most vulnerable congressional incumbent this election season."

A cool thing about being registered to vote in Pennsylvania: I get to vote against Santorum. Rock.