Yup! Republicans in particular don’t like flip-floppers, which I always thought was nuts because I’d rather have someone who was, say, anti-gay in 1995 say “you know, I’ve changed my mind about this issue in the intervening 22 years”. I certainly have evolved my positions on things; I expect most adults (except Ted…

Oh, I’m not optimistic about losing Trump! The problem I have with the “anyone but Trump” mentality is that Trump is an idiot demagogue with no plan and no substance to anything he says or says he believes. The alternative, however, is Cruz, at least at this point. Obviously, the convention will show us if the…

Which will also hurt him! He’s weak on flip-flops or flip-flops weakly or whatever it is Real Presidents don’t do! Score!

Everyone is already saying that about a female candidate and she didn’t do as much as Trump.

Mmm, I don’t think other Republicans are going to go down this rabbit hole, tbh. Someone over on Twitter pointed out that the logical conclusion of the sex-as-contract-for-consequences and abortion-is-murder folks is, in both cases, that the mother should be punished, but that opinion is unpopular because of empathy…

It’s right there! Seeking freedom and a new life! Support the dead duck!

What I’ve heard of is statistics that keep coming up in discussion of Texas HB2 where if you consider variations of legal abortion such as 20-week bans, 77% of the population in this country supports it. I have to assume that many of those people are Republicans, if only because I know at least one Democrat who is…

Well, then I will be proven wrong by the events of the next couple of weeks. I said it in another comment, but I do think that this is a bridge too far for at least some of his supporters regardless of gender because it is more likely that they are in the 77% of Americans that support some form of legal abortion than…

I really don’t know. I mean, I can see that there is a really really dismaying stupidity at work in his supporters, but I think, oddly, that this issue is going to hit closer to home with his supporters than whether or not Mexico should build a wall would - his supporters aren’t Hispanic in any real numbers, but they…

...oh god I need booze. I wrote that sentence without any mental image at all now, and I cannot unsee that! AUGH.

Why are all the sane people people I don’t know IRL? I agree with this entirely: in the primaries, you get to pick between rocky road and butter pecan ice cream. At the convention, you find out whether rocky road or butter pecan are going on further, based in theory on a consensus of people who agree that ice cream is…

That’s my read. This is an insider issue for an “outsider” campaign. I read something today about how Trump’s delegates are not as secure as he thinks, mostly because he is about 32% underwater on favourability (31% favourable, 63% unfavourable) and this has to be a play for both Cruz’s delegates and for uncommitted…

He’s just suggesting the same punishment as you get for breaking other laws. Not all laws, just the best laws. That’s the punishment you should get for having an abortion, whatever the punishment for the best laws is.

Ooh, it’s the opposite of the Lysistrata idea! I’m all for it! Though I think the only person of any prominence outside of my state is Cathy McMorris-Rogers, and the reality is, neither of us can get the other one pregnant to expose them as a cheater. Can I help fund travel expenses for these operatives?

The problem is that for every woman who has that choice (and I fully support it; I have several friends who dress modestly for their religious beliefs, whether Muslim or Mormon or other) there are too many who don’t. I don’t know how, as progressives, we walk the line of saying “this is your choice, I support you” and…

Ooh, also a very good one. Killing is just too good for Ramsay.

How do you live in that? How do you think “my house really NEEDS gilded, recessed ceilings”? WHAT.

I googled that, and ... I am speechless.

Let’s be honest. Anyone with an impressionable small child at their disposal should teach it to say “Bow before your ruler, cretin.” It would be better than what I was taught to say, which was “Lordy, lordy, lordy,” or what a friend taught her kid to say, which was “I am not a crook” with V-for-Victory fingers.

It isn’t even just the forced-birthers. I have a couple pro-choice people on my FB who act like every damn case of a person with Down Syndrome living a normal life is the magnificent reality for everyone with Down’s. I wish I was still in contact with my childhood friend who had a sister with severe Down’s; she wasn’t…