My Favorite Republican

My favorite Republican, my dear spouse, is now swimming in disgust with her Party. She expresses it with such tenderness! “Today’s GOP is run by idiots, and the rest are fools for letting the idiots have their way.” So declares Bonny Franke, Ph. D.

She has no use for the Republican leadership in Congress and its avowed first priority of making the black man in the White House a one-term president. The leader of the Republican minority in the Senate, “Mitch McConnell is an idiot, leading other idiots,” she says.

She has the same high opinion of the TeaPartiers in the House. “Their ignorance has brought the Congress the lowest productivity and the least respect of any Congress since poll-taking began,” she notes.

Her disgust applies equally to the GOP presidential ticket. “Romney and his team are tripping on ignorance.” She has never been respectful of his Latter-day Saints Church, because of its “deep history in polygamy and the enslavement of women,” she says. Romney makes her even less friendly toward it. “Do the qualifications for its Priesthood make exceptions for members who can’t tell the truth?” she asks.

She sees his ignorance conspicuous in his ambivalence about women. “Isn’t he the descendant of polygamists?” She can’t believe any red-blooded American woman could find reasons to vote for Romney since he has chosen expedience over principle in his about-face on the pro-choice stance he held as governor. “He can’t be trusted to care about women’s health. His pledge to kill Planned Parenthood would set the cause of responsible motherhood back at least half a century,” she adds.

“Women must have the last and sole word on pregnancy, if we’re to expect them to be caring mothers,” she concludes.

Dr. Bonny further contends that a party whose written platform in this century has left expectant mothers no option on protecting their own mental and physical health, that can’t deliver women “equal protection” in full under the rule of law, has no business holding national office.

She feels the same disgust for Romney’s insistence that President Obama has dropped the work requirement from welfare. Every responsible analyst has found Romney flatly wrong in this claim.

She sees the Romney negatives mirrored in his choice of Rep, Paul Ryan as his running mate.  “He’s even less a champion of women than Romney,” she says. “His ongoing team-play with Rep. Todd Akin on bills that would leave women with no choices at all showcases the depth of their ignorance,” she says. “They want to qualify and quantify rape. They don”t get. Rape is rape. Period. Never less, but often more, in the extreme violence and death that result.”

Romney deserves a running mate who is now handcuffed for the duration to Akin has his inane views on rape. “They’ve always walked in the same legislative tracks, Ryan and Akin.” They show us so clearly why “the Republicans have become the Party of ignorance and idiots. They are such self-absorbed egotists.”

Thank you, Bonny Franke, Ph.D.

Frank Mensel — September 2012