you have my permission to forward this to every female clinton supporter who’s angrily claiming she’ll vote for mccain over obama

The McCain Loyalty Oath for Women

I _______________ pledge to transfer my support from Hillary Clinton to John McCain. I agree to do all I can do to get McCain the vote. In order to achieve this noble goal I promise to support McCain’s…

• fight to overturn Roe v. Wade and my right to choose.
• fight against equal pay for men and women.
• opposition to providing low-income and uninsured women and families with health care services ranging from breast and cervical cancer screening to birth control.
• opposition to sex education and support of abstinence-only education.
• opposition to insurance covering birth control.
• endorsement of women’s rights more “in theory” than in practice.
• pet name for his wife.

As a woman I promise to apply McCain’s principles to my own life and vow to…

• call myself and my female friends the C word.
• picket abortion clinics.
• not use contraceptives; drink bleach so I don’t catch HIV and drink Mountain Dew so I don’t get pregnant.
• give back part of my salary to male coworkers.
• not vote, but pursue education and encourage my father/husband/brother male friends to vote for McCain.

Once McCain is elected, I will continue to support him and I will not complain about my losing my right to choose, and other reproductive freedoms. And I will continue to refrain from pursuing equality for women.

Signature ____________

Hat tip to Katie Halper.

and yet lou dobbs and bill o’reilly continue to walk the earth. THERE IS NO JUSTICE.

So I suppose we’ve all heard by now that Tim Russert collapsed and died from a heart attack yesterday in the NBC News Washington newsroom. Died with his boots on, as it were.

Y’all now what a political junkie I am, and one of my favorite ways to spend Sunday morning was eating a leisurely breakfast–eggs and bacon, an English muffin, the stuff you only bother to make on the weekend–while watching Meet The Press. And MSNBC replayed it frequently throughout the day, so even if I’d slept late, I could usually manage to catch it.

In this 24-7 cable newsworld of bloviating fucktards like Bill O’Lielly and softball-lobbing dumbasses like Larry King, Russert was refreshingly even-keeled and unbiased. He never let a guest get away with a contradiction, but he was never smug when he nailed them. And his show never descended into the kind of cross-talking screamfests that litter the cable news channels.

This is probably the most important presidential election of our lives. I can’t believe he’s not going to be there with us until the end.