Fun with politics

As an experiment, and just to keep this interesting, I'll comment again on this post after November 2nd and see what's come to pass...

As a gay man this whole Tea Party movement is a bit scary. A political party in power that is more socially conservative and less friendly to gays than the Republicans? Not a good thing.

However, I am getting a kick out of the whole Christine O'Donnell thing--or as I like to call her "Sarah Palin, Jr." While she did bring a shock to Delaware with her primary win, Towleroad (one of my favorite blogs) has also pointed out a few things for voters to keep in mind, such as dabbling in witchcraft and support of ex-gay ministries.

How do sane or semi-intelligent citizens support people like this? Nonetheless it should be interesting to see what the Tea Party does for the Republicans in the future. I am amused by the in-fighting it is stirring up at the moment. Are things like this going to cost them some important seats in the upcoming election? We'll see...

I also question why the gay community is coming down so hard on Obama. Yes, we want the Democrats to get more done for us...but are the Republican or Tea Party politicians a better alternative? I think not.

That said, if anyone could make me vote Republican it would probably be Colin Powell. I remember being impressed with him many years ago (when there was a push for him to run for President), and I was impressed with him again this past Sunday on Meet the Press. He seems very practical, honest and (dare I say) full of common sense.

Traits that are good in any politician regardless of political party.