Whether they’re fussing about Jim Webb’s (D) books in Virginia - playing the race card (as in black versus white) in Tennessee ("Blond Bimbo Commercial") in the Corker(R) versus Ford (D) Senate race - or shrieking “fowl” as in the New Jersey State Supreme Court Decision to tell the state legislature there that it must grant gay and lesbian couples the right to marriage - it’s non stop smear based on sex and race. In Tennessee, Ford stands accused of taking money from porno interests. In Virginia, Webb is accused of male chauvinism because of passages that describe abusive sex that are used to illustrate his concerns as an author. In New Jersey, it’s play the “prejudice against gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered people (GLBT) card in order to distract the nation from currently more important issues such as Iraq, national debt and profligate Federal spending, corruption at the centers of power, separation of church and state, balance of power between President, Congress, and Senate, election procedures and voting machines, the failing real estate market, illegal alien immigration, illegal imprisonment, torture, and international terrorism that threaten to undo the nation. This is possibly the most important election in the nation’s history, and it may, once again, be counted inaccurately, even though the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections flashed red flags on that issue. And, the Republican Party continues to scream “SEX! SEX! SEX!”

I’m a Democrat, and I will vote straight Democrat, not because I’m Democrat. As I’ve stated before (October 22, 2006), I’m disappointed in the Democratic Party because it will not take a stand on any of the issues including prejudice against GLBT people. Instead, I’m voting straight Democrat because I want to get rid of this Republican Coalition of evangelical preachers, congregations, and crooked politicians hell bent on power, this Republican Party that continues to scream, “SEX! SEX! SEX!”

Anyone with a shred of concern for his or her freedom, and this democratic republic must, at this point in time, vote, and vote Democrat.