Here in the Metro DC area, I keep my political views to myself in the real world. Not that I’m afraid of the stick-armed, puny, intellectual midgets that live here, it’s just that I usually need to get from point A to point B without delaying every ten feet to explain why I think everyone on the way are morons.<\/p>\n
Every person in DC has the political depth of the Daily Show and the calm demeanor of a typical Daily Kos diarist. As I’m fond of pointing out, DC voted 90% for John Kerry in the 2004 election (they picked Howard Dean in their straw primary, and Al Sharpton came in second). So why should I waste my day trying to penetrate that level of ignorance?<\/p>\n
TSO wrote the other day at The Sniper<\/a> that he’s tired of fending off the Obama-ites in DC’s subway system in Virginia (a state Obama hasn’t quite locked up yet). I guess I’m lucky…Obama figures he’s got Maryland in the bag.<\/p>\n But to my larger point. Every numbskull in the area has taken it upon themselves to just start a conversation with me to declare how stupid John McCain was to pick Sarah Palin as his VP. People I’ve never spoken a word to, just walk up to me in elevators, on the sidewalk, on the subway, at my desk, on my balcony and start right out with “Do you believe this Sarah Palin person?” The conversation varies with whatever rumor is popular that day, whatever Obama tells them is important through their party organ at the Washington Post.<\/p>\n When I actually take the time to point out how they’re wrong and present actual facts, they just move on to yesterday’s rumor, then the day before that. When I get tired of listening to it and turn to walk away, they declare themselves the winner (I didn’t even know it was a competition). Each encounter is the same as if they’re all scripted. My building maintence guy in my apartment building started in on me the other day.<\/p>\n They don’t think much of Alaskans either, as if they’re savages from some outlying territory. They’re also fond of demeaning Palin’s term as governor of such a backward territory as somewhat less worthy than being a community organizer. When I remind them that Palin isn’t running against Obama, they bring out the fact that McCain is a cancer survivor and near death at any given moment.<\/p>\n I’m charged with being a partisan Republican just defending my “people”. Well, if Sarah Palin and John McCain supported each and every one of their issues exactly the way they themselves would, these clowns would say the same things about Palin and McCain just because they’re Republicans. So who’s really being partisan here?<\/p>\n It’s a nuisance akin to Hari Krishnas in the airport. I’ve tried to find a movement on the internet that would explain this odd behavior, but I can’t find one. I guess it’s just indicative of the fact that Democrats suck.<\/p>\n But I guess it could be worse (h\/t The Jawa Report)<\/a>;<\/p>\n [youtube bRrWEg_QBJE nolink]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"