Can someone please explain...

(I admit - I will be generalizing in the next few paragraphs. You are forewarned.)

Why is it that Republicans think voting for Mike Ditka (who has no foreign policy experience, or domestic for that matter) into the Senate is a Good Thing, but that Edwards, who has at least served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is unqualified to be Vice President?

Yes, I know there are 100 senators, and only one vice-president. And yes, I know that the vice-president has to be qualified to *be* president. And yes, I know that comparing Edwards to Bush's experience level on foreign policy pre-his own assumption of the office of the president is kind of icky.

But we're not talking about actualities. We're talking about the same group of people who on one hand say Yay Ditka and on the other hand say Unqualified Edwards.

Is there any linear thinking in that?

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I just reread the US Civil Rights Commission's report on the 2000 election in Florida, which you can read here. The start of it reads:

[T]he most dramatic undercount in Florida’s election was the uncast ballots of countless eligible voters who were turned away at the polls or wrongfully purged from voter registration rolls.

While statistical data, reinforced by credible anecdotal evidence, point to widespread disenfranchisement and denial of voting rights, it is impossible to determine the extent of the disenfranchisement or to provide an adequate remedy to the persons whose voices were silenced in this historic election by a pattern and practice of injustice, ineptitude, and inefficiency.

Want to read more? I can't get it to fit here on LJ so follow the link above and read a least Chapter Nine.

Gay marriage amendment fails in Senate

The constitutional amendment we're debating today strikes me as antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans. It usurps from the states a fundamental authority they have always possessed and imposes a federal remedy for a problem that most states do not believe confronts them.
--John McCain

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My Nimbus - 2003 CDRom just arrived! Squeee!

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