I want to applaud Cindy McCain for posing for a no-on-hate-of-Prop8 photo. I really do. But the most I can muster is a, dare I say, ‘conservative’ polite-society fingers-to-palm sign of appreciation you’d see old ladies doing at the opera. Because, let’s face it, where was Cindy on the day her husband was losing the presidential election while the people of California were voting for ‘change’ (you know, change like taking the right to marry back from gay people)? McCain’s daughter, Meghan, on the other hand, posed for an anti-Prop8 ad last summer—despite how it might affect her father’s campaign. His daughter’s stance shouldn’t affect how people feel about him, but of course it would (how dare McCain raise a daughter who has integrity and stands up for what she believes in), so the two distanced themselves from each other. Therefore, Cindy did what she believed was ‘right’ for her husband, following the Ronald Reagan rule of silence (Reagan did not even utter the term AIDS until 1987 when it was beyond being a major health epidemic in this country).
Even so, despite voicing her stance only now when it really doesn’t pose much threat to her husband’s goals, Cindy is still much more my hero than most democraps (Oops! Typo!). Because democraps suck. They are so scared to be labeled liberal by people who wouldn’t vote for them anyway that they refuse to stand up for, well, the very issues they get voted into office for, like, oh, I don’t know, LIBERATION.
Well, actually, I shouldn’t say that. Democraps are proud sponsors of baby aborting. It’s gay marriage where they draw the line: the kind of union with a built-in contraception that creates homes ripe for alleviating the epidemic of parentless children that egocentric couples planning for parenthood don’t want, because a child that doesn’t look like them is just too damn unlovable (it’s an inner conflict I struggle with every day because my adopted dogs are so much cuter than me!). But I ain’t ever gonna be no baby daddy, so who am I to have any opinion on abortion? Besides, who wants to take sides in a debate on rights that guarantees that one side is going to come out a loser at the other’s expense (just as the gay marriage debate could negatively impact the rights of gays or…um…nobody)? Opinion-free or not, I can’t help wonder, what chance do people have of protecting the rights of unborn children in this country when they can’t even, you know, find it in their hearts to give full rights to the people who already ARE born? Sure, we’ll give the unborn child the right to life, but once born, if that child is gay, well, there are a whole bunch of rights under that right to life umbrella that we’re sure as hell going to take back a.s.a.p.!!! And the democraps sure as shit ain’t gonna stop us because they don’t want to be the poster children of equality for all!
So, yeah. Cindy McCain puts democraps to shame, because I don’t exactly see liberal politicians or even their spouses standing up for equality. Personally, if it were my political career at stake, I might be swayed to stand up for the rights of many of my constituents simply because my trailblazing would guarantee me a pretty strong entry in the history books until the end of time…which would be 2012.
