Angry Republicans, Angry Me

Texas primary elections are next Tuesday.  Every day I am bombarded with television commercials for Republican candidates.  I see fat, middle-aged white men each claiming he is more conservative than any other.  Even candidates for comptroler and the state legislature boast that they “fight Obama” and “protect Texas” from the evil Federal Government. . 

Every Republican politician assures me that he is a good family man and a Christian who will defend Texans rights to “religious freedom.”  This means he will impose the policies of the fundamentalist right on everyone else.  He will restrict the right of a woman who needs an abortion.  He will deny the right to marriage to a gay couple who have been together for seventeen years.  Those who boast of “protecting our rights” mean to restrict the rights of others.

Republican candidates attack each other for not being tough enough on illegal aliens.  They deny driver’s licenses to men who must drive to their jobs where they are employed by Republicans to build their houses, mow their lawns, and clean their houses.  Republicans deny the children of illegals the benefit of our public schools, preferring young people who grow up in our country remain in economic servitude. 

Several times a day I hear a loud-mouth boast, “I will secure our borders.”   In my travels I saw enormous walls around Constantinople and Rome.  I climbed the Great Wall of China.  None kept out invaders.  The Emperor Hadrian built a wall between Scotland and England.  The English and Scots fought each other for 1,500 years, only the join peacefully when James VI of Scotland inherited the throne of Queen Elizabeth I and became James I of Great Britain.  You can’t build a fence that will keep out desperate Mexicans who only want a better life for their families. 

(No more than you can prevent a desperate woman who needs an abortion.  Before Roe vs. Wade women in Dallas died from illegal abortions.  That will happen again if the so-called Pro-Life faction succeeds in its evil attempt to control women’s lives.)

These men are against all government regulation.  They want the Coan Brothers (who pay for many of these commercials) profit from their oil refineries stewing their waste into the Texas sky, polluting our air.  Would they deregulate the FDA which keeps our food and drugs safe? 

Some commercials end with endorsements from the NRA and the Pro-Life group.  Republicans want every Texans to own a gun so that when he gets angry with his wife he can kill her.  And own an assault weapon so that his immature, angry young kid can take it to school and blow away his classmates.   

There is one thing I hear with which I agree.  One Repubican puffs out his chest and says, “Texas is exceptional.”

Yes, thank God!  Texans do not acknowledge that people in the rest of the country elected President Obama to a second term.  He is our President, and all of us should support him.