October 7, 2010: Who called Whitman a whore?

No one knows, and if anyone does they're not going to tell. If you'd like to read the article, this is the link for it: Someone called Meg Whitman a whore, but she's being the "bigger man".

If you'd like a synopsis, Jerry Brown's team met up to discuss some campaign plans and some jackass forgot to hang up the telephone all the way after leaving a message for the LA Police Union. They brought up Ms. Whitman, called her a whore a few times, and the recording finished catching the "slur". It was then leaked to the press, Brown canceled his "get out the vote" showing, and Whitman is refusing to comment even though her aides want everyone to know that it's degrading for women everywhere!

Now, as a woman I'm not feeling too degraded. As a republican I'm not even outraged. But as a voter, I am pissed that we have to put up with this nonsense. With all the knowledge that every breath you take is being scrutinized by the public, you are stupid enough to call an opposing candidate a whore? And of all things, why whore? Do you posess knowledge that Ms. Whitman is sleeping around for money? Of course not. If you're going to resort to that kind of behavior to pass the blame and inflate your ego, I don't want you making decisions. I don't want you to blame the working class when you mess up, I don't want you to play any of those ego trip games. I believe that the issues at hand are important, more important than anything else you have to say. I want to know your plan of action.

I may not be 100% on anyone yet, but there are three things that I know right now. 1. We must QUIT deficit spending and outrageous spending. 2. We must create jobs for everyone, not just upper or lower class. We must create jobs across the board. 3. We must increase taxes, and we must be okay with that as Americans. I know people will fight me on at least the last point. But I don't believe my children should be forced to pay off a debt that was incurred without Mark and I even thinking about having children. That is unfair. This was OUR fault, this was OUR vote, or OUR lack thereof. We need to rise to the challenge and fix things ourselves, not pass the blame and pass the decline.

Love, Polly

September 25, 2010: Political idiots

If I see any variation of, "I won't vote for Meg Whitman because she's a slandering whore" I might just have to shoot someone. I love the involvement and I love hearing multiple views being discussed. I absolutely despise people who make complaints about things with absolutely no support to thier view or some generic term of offense as their reasoning. I would love to hear why you think that Candidate A is better than Candidate B. I would love to hear how you interpret the measures and propositions being put on the ballot. And I definately love knowing that there is involvement in our government at any and every level. But I find that kind of slanderous behavior to be rude and completely uncalled for. We know very little if anything at all about our politicians true character, and although we believe that actions speak louder than words our actions are just as poor, if not just as broadcasted. We are more in outrage over our politicians than the video of the girl that threw newborn puppies into a fast moving river with the exact same amount of information. We have the actions but not the ability to understand the true impact of any decision. Most of us just listen to the radio or television commercials instead of actually reading the ballots. We take propaganda laced interpretations from biased parties and use that as our primary source of information. These measures and propositions are NOT that difficult to read if you break them down sentence by sentence. I promise, if you take your time you will understand them. Likewise, if we sit down and really do some research on the things that our politicians and candidates have done we will see what their stance is on many things. We will be able to make truly informed judgements and THAT is what is going to help us now. We need to stop jumping on these band wagons and do some real independent research and learn how to sift through the important and unimportant. Learn the facts, process them, and make our own decisions. Support our viewpoints with solid information and debate them amongst ourselves. Open ourselves up to different viewpoints and different ideas, so that things get better. It isn't the media at fault, we are at fault. We refuse to be involved in our government until infamy or scandal show up, and then all we have to talk about is the negative. We are no longer the proud nation we were, the proud, informed nation that believed in it's government. The proud nation with a government that was recognized at being in the forefront of the entire world. We need to get back on our feet, I know things are difficult now and that we want someone to blame. Blame ourselves, for being ignorant and ENJOYING our ignorance. If we want change, we must bring it ourselves.

Love, Polly.

September 19, 2010: Democrats are money spending bastards but Republicans are only for rich people.

Stop blaming whole political parties! I am so frustrated by everyone saying that one political party or another is evil, when the truth is that no party is evil and we function as a two party system. Democrats and Republicans have long fought against each other's core beliefs and principles but only recently has the fight transfered to the people themselves instead of the issues at hand. I am not evil to the core nor a spawn of Satan himself or even worse the Devil Incarnate. I am a stout conservative republican that believes that the government should be of minor involvement in our lives and that the money we make should be our money. I am also a capitalist that believes that we should embrace the entrepreneurial spirit that made our country and strike out on our own or work our way up the ranks to earn the money that is all around us. However, as a swing voter, I also don't believe that any person should be without health care or be unable to receive proper health care because they cannot afford it. I feel that health care is one of the limited places government should be involved. I believe that schools and education should be of a higher priority than salaries for government employees. I believe that we should encourage public transportation in any way possible and use the funds we generate through that to repave our roads as well as funds collected from sales tax on gas. I believe that we should start utilizing high speed lanes sectioned off from regular lanes, and impose a toll to use them. Use that to continue funding the roads. I believe in public works projects, and I believe that those are what will strengthen our economy. And if I could find a candidate that believes in all these things, he would have my vote, democrat or republican.

Love, Polly.