Election 2012: Un-Mitt-igated Mendacity

Election 2012: Un-Mitt-igated Mendacity

Today is election day in the United States, and sometime in the coming weeks we will find out who will remain President, and who will have lost the election by trying to re-gift America with Bush era fiscal policies which brought us to the brink of total financial meltdown.

The most interesting shift in power will be in the U.S. Senate, where Democrats will gain on their 51 vote majority. Women indeed did remember in November. With the occupant of the White House for the next four years likely to appoint two or three Supreme Court Associate Justices, women who value the gains made for the past 30 years, since Roe v. Wade, don't trust the Right-Wing nut faction of the Republican party. VP candidate Paul Ryan, who is among the 435 Members of Congress facing re-election tonight.

Although approval ratings of the Congress were under double digits, they traditionally win re-election as a matter of fact. I hope that all of the Obstructionists who swept into town in 2010, will return to civilian lives. I cannot deny that I voted for Larry Kissell, a blue-dog Dem from the NC 8th District, because his opponent Richard Hudson leads his web page with a 2nd Amendment plea.

His website quotes his major disqualification for office, in my humble opinion-

“SALISBURY – Just six days away from the 2012 general election, the latest Tea Party Express bus tour rolled into Rowan County to rally support for conservative candidates. Richard Hudson, Republican candidate for North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District, arrived in the bus Wednesday morning at the front of the Republican Party headquarters in Salisbury. He [...]”

Tea-bagger equals Obstruction.

Kissell didn't support Affordable Health Care, and as a result his money came from The NRA, instead of national Democratic Party. It is the question of the least offensive choice. My district only includes a small urban section of Charlotte and then meanders east along US 74 through turkey and watermelon country. God, Guns, and such.

Not that living in a World Class single-name city like Charlotte affords me a more erudite opinion. The hard working country folks are from whence I came, but Kissell is not my idea of Progressive. His opponent is not my cup of tea, either.

With that said, a few Women Senators from formerly GOP held seats can make a huge difference both up-ticket and in the dysfunctional Congressional situation. How will they affect Obama's chances in a close race? Women are organizers and hard workers.

My favorite band, the Grateful Dead toured for 30 years singing, “Women R Smarter”. Efforts by the likes of Todd Akin, Richard Murdock and Paul Ryan to re-define an embryo as a “person” served to galvanize a sleeping lioness.