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By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2006
Posted on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 01:47:15 PM EST
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Via Daily Kos, a brilliant ad on Colorado's anti-gay marriage amendment on the ballot:

Amendment 43 isn't meant to change the law. It's meant to change the subject.

As Kos says,

The subject, of course, being Iraq, high gas prices, lack of affordable health care, and so on.

Say no to Amendment 43.

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    A Brilliant Ad | 8 comments (8 topical)

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    High Gas prices? (none / 0) (#1)
    by Wile ECoyote on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 01:59:36 PM EST
    Let me see, you want any president to regulate gas prices?  Holy socialism batman!  

    gas prices (none / 0) (#2)
    by scribe on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 02:18:50 PM EST
    I don't think that's what the ad said.*  

    Still, if you look into it, it becomes all the more obvious that someone at Big Oil has been manipulating gas prices - mostly by making and pushing so much of it into the market that the glut has flooded away higher prices, and partly by cutting their price/profit margin on refining.  

    I paid 1.949/gal two days ago to fill up, and the price has gone back down since then.  Prior to a two-cent rise last week, it had been as low as 1.919/gal.

    But, still, one should fill up before next Tuesday ends.  

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    *I think the reference to gas prices was to having paid $3.00+ within the last year (bad enough), and a sudden, inexplicable drop to under $2.00 just as election season rolls into view (worse - it means we've been scammed).  There isn't any more oil in the ground this year over last year, and no one is putting any more there.  So, the high prices whacking people who live in places where all the land-use decisions and growth are centered around automobiles, on the one hand, and sudden and inexplicable (other than by market manipulation) changes in price on the other, are plenty sufficient to be an election issue.

    Ted Haggard and gay male escorts (none / 0) (#3)
    by Molly Bloom on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 02:31:36 PM EST
    This could get ineteresting when coupled with the Ted Haggard story in the Rocky Mountain News (that's the conservative paper in Denver)

    A former gay male escort is going public on the eve of Colorado voting on two ballot issues relating to gay marriage, claiming a three-year sexual relationship with a prominent Colorado Springs pastor who has been an outspoken opponent of same-sex unions.

    A Denver resident identifying himself as Mike Jones said he had a sexual relationship with Ted Haggard, founder of the 14,000-member New Life Church and president of the National Association of Evangelicals.

    Will it deflate the evangilical vote in Colorado?



    This could get interesting (none / 0) (#7)
    by aw on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 08:11:16 PM EST
    I'll say.  I'm sure Rev Haggard would really like to change the subject, as would the evangelicals, as would the Republicans, as would Karl Rove.  Too Late.


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    gas prices (none / 0) (#4)
    by Wile ECoyote on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 05:15:54 PM EST
    scribe:
    If I look in to it, I see the requirement for boutique blends of gas for the different times of year and different locations mandated by the feds, expotentially increased demands by India and China, No new refineries since 1976, and millions of additional cars on the roads since 1976.  Just to name a few factors.  
    Just by getting rid of the boutique blends of fuel for the time of year requirements will drop the price a great amount.  Actually getting rid of federal taxes will drop the cost of gas.  Maybe the dems should campaign on that.  

    getting rid of federal gas taxes (none / 0) (#8)
    by aw on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 08:23:05 PM EST
    Actually getting rid of federal taxes will drop the cost of gas.  Maybe the dems should campaign on that.

    That's a splendid idea.  Working people will get a tax break.  Then we'll demand a tax increase for the wealthy to pay for the cut.

    I like it.

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    Blinders (none / 0) (#5)
    by kdog on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 05:32:54 PM EST
    Nothing puts the blinders on the masses like gay marriage. Well...maybe abortion.  Ya gotta hand it to the GOP...they've got "playing the voters like fiddles" down to a science.

    Rome may be burning right under our noses...but at least there will be no married gay people in the ashes. What a relief!

    Paying for gay sex is OK (none / 0) (#6)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 07:05:06 PM EST
    As long as you don't make it legal. Gotta love Republican values.

    BTW...Hugo Chavez will sell us oil at 50 bucks a barrel but we won't buy it cuz we don't like how he treats the millionares in his country. Once again, gotta love Republican values.

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