Crazy, Stupid, Conservative

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." ~Edmund Burke

Just when you think Karen Handel is fighting back against the low-down tactics on the Republican side trying to use abortion and gay marriage to make her seem not "Republican" enough, she goes and runs her mouth again...and all those independent votes she might have garnered before, are tossed out the window. This is the link for the video of her interview on the bus with 11Alive News, and she's being taken to task on the issues of gay marriage and gay adoption:

http://www.11alive.com/video/default.aspx?aid=121054&storyid=146501#/Handel%3A+Gay+Parents+Not+in+the+Best+Interest+of+Child%22/114804829001

It would be much easier to deem this video "crazy" if we didn't all know how serious she is; and if we didn't all know that most of the Republican field is right there beside her on this issue. How dare she be so damn offensive in the 21st century? Here in this country, there are gay couples everywhere...happy, gay couples doing their best to live in peace under an already almost unbearable stigma (especially around election time), and they have to turn on the news and hear things like this trash. It's quite sad to me that she feels the need to tack so far right just to win a primary. I guess the real sad fact is that she knows by tacking that far right, there will actually be people who agree with her and cast their votes because of what she said. I thought, as recently as a couple days ago, that Karen Handel was attempting to set herself up as a viable alternative in the general election; someone women voters and independent voters could feel comfortable casting their votes for. Now I realize how wrong I was.

If Ms. Handel has nothing better to do than act as "Big Brother" (ooooh, the words conservatives supposedly fear most) in people's bedrooms, then I have no use for her. And neither does this state. I guess she's never read the study suggesting that children of lesbian couples are actually more successful in life? Though I guess she'd just choose not to believe it if she did. Because when you're a Republican, you apparently have the privilege of ignoring facts and data. Who knew? Or maybe she just never thought that kids in foster care, or kids with nobody at all, or kids getting the hell beaten out of them in unhappy homes everyday might just be better off with a loving gay or lesbian couple. I guess that doesn't matter to Karen. This is the kind of 1960s hatred that some people still buy into. And that's disgusting. I can only pray that the people of this state see this video and react in the same nauseating manner that I have. And as for Karen, she can take her hatred and shove it up her Handel.