now, there are a lot of things that politicians do that i just plain don’t understand. i am not a political strategist, or all that educated, or even extremely well-read. in perfect honesty, i’m more a political fangirl than anything else.

this is perhaps why i will never understand why the illinois gop pulled jack ryan out of the race and put fucking alan keyes in.

jesus christ, why didn’t you just run krusty the klown? this guy is an idiot. and he’s so fucking repugnant, i can see people downstate either holding their noses to vote obama to get the “not obviously a psycho” candidate, or just abstaining entirely. i haven’t talked politics anyone in my family lately, but gauging by many of their responses to the bush administration (mostly along the lines of “what the hell is this joker doing,” staring at the train wreck in confusion, as opposed to many of my chicagoland pals’ opinions of bush, et al.), i really can’t picture any of them being all “rah, rah, go keyes!” seriously, i believe that if i went back to p-town this evening and bought my dad a beer he’d go off on a really memorable rant about what an asshole this guy is.

i wish fitzgerald hadn’t split. i didn’t agree with him very often — in fact, pretty much every time i recall writing to him, i got a letter back explaining very nicely why he’d done exactly the opposite i asked him to do — but at least he wasn’t a bad person. maybe that’s why he left. poor guy probably felt all alone and out of place.

so, yeah, on to keyes’ latest homophobic spew, courtesy of the sun-times:

U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes told a rally Saturday that incest was “inevitable” for children raised by gay couples because the children might not know both biological parents.

“If we do not know who the mother is, who the father is, without knowing all the brothers and sisters, incest becomes inevitable,” Keyes told the Marquette Park rally held to oppose same-sex marriages.

“Whether they mean it or not, that is what will happen. If you are masked from your knowing your biological parents, you are in danger of encountering brothers and sisters you have no knowledge of.”

uh. you’re a fucking bozo, alan. if someone was adopted to heterosexual parents in a closed adoption, that child is also at risk of encountering, and having wild monkey sex with, brothers and sisters of whom they had no knowledge. this does not mean we should ban adoptions, you freaking incapable-of-logic stupid, stupid bad man!

“inevitable” incest, indeed. get fucked, alan. man, i hope the downstate voters *humiliate* you. chicago can’t because, hey, everyone knows we’re going obama, but everyone outside of cook county can… and i hope they do. you’re a loser, and a big jerk besides.

so, i dunno whether this post is more a lament that fitzgerald is gone, a statement of confusion as to why the gop dumped ryan (who had a sex scandal, yes, but i honestly believe that it was a surmountable one), or a screech of rage at yet more of keyes’ homophobia. suppose it doesn’t really matter. hey, three posts in one! perhaps this is the new, succinct side of sabrina.

…nah.