10 Things You WON’T Hear Mentioned at the Republican Convention This Week

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  1. Grant in Texas - August 27, 2012

    To think we have run a successful nation for most of 225 years WITHOUT photo ID’s. In fact photography only became common with Kodak’s cheap Brownie box camera in the early 20th century. For the decades of voting BEFORE photography was invented, did voters have to bring an artist’s portrait? I can see George Washington taking a Gilbert Stuart portrait off the wall at Mt. Vernon and lugging it to his voting place.

    My first driver’s license in 1955 had NO picture on it. I don’t remember photos and plastic lamination until the 1960’s. Not being laminated, I carefully cut out the “9” in my 1939 birthdate in a near perfect rectangle with a razor blade then inverting it making it read 1936. I then bought a lamination kit at Walgreen’s and carefully sealed my license to keep the “6” from falling out. If you held my license up to a strong light you might see a bit of light around the “6” but then bars never had strong lights. So at age 18 I was “21” and could “legally” drink.

    Voter SUPPRESSION has me very worried. I fear many eligible voters will also be harassed and thus turned away from the voting booth by teabagger “poll watchers” organized by Houston based King Street Patriots who don’t think poor people have the right to vote!

    http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/anti-voter_fraud_tea_party_group_hosts_author_who_thinks_poor_shouldnt_vote.php

    And these Republicans claim to be “strict” Constitutionalists? What a hypocritical joke….quite a contrast from when Bush/Cheney lauded “bringing democracy to Iraq” with 60% of Iraqis voting WITHOUT ID’s. Iraqi voters only had to dip their fingers in purple indelible ink to prevent voting more than once. Yet, Republicans are doing everything in their power to prevent groups that traditionally vote Democratic, to vote.

    As a teacher for many years in Texas I was aware some of my students were “dream” children. All have since attended college and have become legal, some by spending several thousand with immigration lawyers. I remember one kid at my high school confiding in me about being bullied and being called a “wetback”. He said he never swam the Rio Grande, that he came to the USA at age 2 riding in a leather first class seat on Continental Airlines. He has never been back to Mexico nor even speaks much Spanish. His family were wealthy Mexicans who had been heavily involved in politics. There was a political upheaval in their city with a new party in power making them fear a vendetta against them by political enemies. His parents and grandparents had to leave behind their small mansion and some property but were able to smuggle some money, jewelry into the USA. So this “dream child” was here for political, not economic reasons. Why was he any different than a Cuban who can come here so easily, just placing one foot on dry U.S. land? Might be that Cubans tend to be Republicans whereas a majority of Mexicans vote Democratic.

    I see where Houston’s Rev. Russell Levinson, Rector of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, opened the Republican Convention in Tampa with prayer. Of course tony St. Martin’s has the wealthiest congregants in the city including the Bush family. I am sure most will vote for Romney.

  2. Jason - August 28, 2012

    You left out a big one: George W. Bush.

  3. Mugsy - August 28, 2012

    (chuckle)

    Actually, I didn’t. I omitted it because I’m fairly certain Jeb will mention his brother in his speech (on edumakation.)

  4. Ger - August 28, 2012

    I saw someone say this, and it stuck with me. Ok, lets say they give blastocysts personhood. ok, fine. If the mother is incarcerated during pregnancy, they will have to let her out, because it’s falsely imprisoning the clump of cells.

  5. Sidney18511 - August 28, 2012

    How amazing is it that the very same teabaggers who are applauding the republican governors successful voter suppression laws are suddenly surprised to see the republicans doing the same thing to the Ron Paul supporters?
    Reminds me of a little saying……first they came for the black citizens voters rights, and I did not speak up because I wasn’t black, then they came for the poor citizens voters rights, and I didnt speak up because I wasn’t poor, then they came for the democrats voting rights and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a democrat………..and then they came for MY VOTING RIGHTS………and there was NO ONE LEFT TO SPEAK UP FOR ME!

  6. JCtx - August 29, 2012

    Thanx for the comment about the GOP being a big bunch of frightened p@ssies. I’ve thought exactly this ever since the 2000 election when the exit polls did not match up to the vote and the Republican’t response was that Republicans were afraid to tell the pollsters that they voted Republican.

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