The "varmint" hunter speaks.

I hope that the manufactured controversy about Ann Romney and her working woman cred is finally coming to an end. In my humble opinion Hilary Rosen was right. But what do I know? I am not a gazillionaire and I don't have kids. Wingnuts, this is not how you stop your war on women. Creating a false controversy and feigning outrage over this issue will not hide the facts. 

Anyway, tonight I want to talk about some much more important things that have been happening in our country while the mainstream media and the chattering class focused on mommygate.

In case you haven't noticed, A-merry-cans have been slaughtering each other at an alarming rate. Take your pick: New Hampshire, New Jersey, California, and Ohio, (In a Cracker Barrel restaurant of all places.) Sanford, Florida....I could go on, but if you go into every one of those links that I have provided you will have more than enough material to keep you busy for awhile. Tragically, in two of those cases, men whose job it is to protect us lost their lives as well.

Ironically, the NRA is having their annual meeting in St. Louis, and Flipper actually addressed his so called gun loving friends and hunting buddies today. (Even though he only mentioned guns once. It's general election time. Let the flipping begin.) Of course Ann was by his side. It's the female vote stupid. Flipper told the crowd that Obama would restrain their Second Amendment freedoms, and (I am paraphrasing here) that he would take their god given rights to their guns from their praying hands. I am sure that this went over well with these geniuses. From what I have been reading they don't seem to be too bright.

The thing is, much to my dismay, Obama is actually more pro gun than Flipper.
Unfortunately for you gun loving winguts, -like everything else with Flipper- when it comes to this subject he is a fraud.

Finally, speaking of guns; according to some influential republican money people Obama should be speaking from behind bulletproof teleprompters.

"During an appearance on Fox Business Network Wednesday, Foster Friess--the billionaire backer of former Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum--said he hopes President Obama's "teleprompters are bulletproof."

"There are a lot of things that haven't been hammered at because Rick and Mitt have been going at each other," the retired mutual fund manager said before he made his comment directed at the president. He later told ABC News that he regretted his words immediately after he said them." [Source]

Sure he did. * side eye*

"If I had a son he would look like Trayvon."

O, you might end up like Trayvon of some of these folks have their way.









    

"Girl Fight"

I am not going to comment on the you know who case tonight. Mr. Killerman has been arrested and now it's time for our system of justice to play itself out. That's all those of us who care about real justice in this country ever wanted in the first place. Sadly, all of my "color aroused" friends are in a choleric state right now. To them this was about black versus white. To the rest of us, on the other hand, this was always about doing the right thing.

Thankfully, the "Sunshine" Law is in full effect in Florida, so we will be able to see this trial play itself out in HD.

Anyway, I heard that Mrs.Romney was on Fox & Friends this morning, and she was not too pleased about Hilary Rosen calling her out for never having a real job. Wngnuts are trying their best to manufacturer a scandal, and Hilary Rosen will be taking the New Black Panther's place for the next few weeks.

"She should have come to my house when those five boys were causing so much trouble,' Ann Romney laughed.

' I know what it's like to struggle, and if maybe I haven't struggled as much financially as some people have, I can tell you and promise you, that I've had struggles in my life,' she added.

Rosen's comments have sparked an uproar among Republicans, who have called on Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to apologize on Rosen's behalf for the comments, which they're casting as an "affront to mothers everywhere."

I need a break! Struggle? Mrs. Romney, with all due respect, "struggling" is having to get up at five in the morning and catch three buses to the suburbs to clean old people's shit for $10 an hour, while you have three minor kids at home and no other income but your own in the damn house. That's a f*&^%*g struggle! 

I love how conservatives embrace "stay at home" moms who can afford it. Unfortunately poor women who have to raise their children AND work get no such love from the Richie Rich crowd.

"This is not about Ann Romney. This is about the waitress in a diner in some place in Nevada who has two kids whose day care funding is being cut off because of the Romney/Ryan budget and she doesn't know what to do," Rosen said in a follow-up CNN interview. "Does Mitt Romney have a vision for bringing women up economically and can he himself stop referring to his wife as his economic surrogate? That's an important thing. He's the one that keeps doing this. Not me."

Yes, that waitress in the diner has to work. Welfare reform made sure of that.  Case workers want to see these stay at home mothers working, and Ann, I am afraid that taking care of your boys would not count as work in their eyes.

Hopefully, wingnuts can calm down now. Rosen has apologized and even his Oness, always the gentleman, has come to Mrs. Romney's defense.

"It was the wrong thing to say," Obama declared, standing up for Republican rival Mitt Romney's wife with Democrats suddenly on the defensive over women's issues for the first time this election year.

Obama, in an interview with WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio, also called the "ill-advised statement" by consultant Hilary Rosen "not something that I subscribe to."

"Moreover, my general rule is you don't talk about the spouses of elected officials because they have a really tough job. They're out there supporting their husband or wife who has chosen to serve in the public eye. I think they're off limits."

Congrats on the high road O, but you should hear how they talk about your wife. Besides, Hilary was right.