It could only happen in Hollywood!

"Ron Wyden"



In all seriousness, this silly region bashing needs to cease (which I'm sure was your point). It's naive and foolish, and fails to recognized how mixed-together our disparate political views are in this country.

I've lived in the South, the West, and the East. There's good and bad in all of it.

How can you bash the West without including Rick Perry and Jan Brewer? And Louie Gohmert for goodness sakes. I think I'd have a very hard time deciding whether it's he or Bachmann who is the most batshit crazy in the house.

I live in Oregon but Greg Walden is not my rep. He's the rep for OR-2. A huge area that covers everything east of the Cascades. It's a red-state over there and I don't think they are particularly fond of us blue-staters over here in Portland and Salem. I don't expect him to go anywhere anytime soon.

Jan Brewer should have been included.

and spends most of her time in Arizona, I think, now. Still west, but we're tired of being tarnished by our association with her.

I saw that tea bagger map.

The tea baggers are located all over.

Lets pick on every state that has republicans in office.

That is every state in the union.

Lets not leave anybody out.

If you have a tea bagger or a republican office holder in your state it is your fault.

Doesn't matter if you never vote republican or never had voted republican.

Yeah, the picking on the southern states gets old.

We should all have skin in the game.

We send none to DC, have none in the governor's office, and have very few in the statehouse. Unfortunately, when things don't go right, it's harder to find someone to blame, though.

One republican is to many.

That doesn't get you off the hook.

Somebody votes for those republicans in the state house.

I have never voted for a republican, never.

I started voting in 1971.

The repukes have no power in MA. When they are able to do anything, it is only because the Dems allow them to do it.

The rules are no republicans period, in any office.

One even with no power is to many.

Get rid of all the republicans and check back.

We had a democratic Lt.Gov names Bill Hobby for 18 years.

Those were the days.

three of them are Republicans, not even enough to make the Senate deal with a piece of GOP proposed legislation (7 are required). There are 36 Dems in the State Senate (one vacancy)

The current composition of the House is 128 Democrats and 32 Republicans.

about the poor, mizundustood, picked on Southwest.

We have big problems, and we know it.

So please, send as much cash as you possibly can to support our lefty Dem candidates at election time, and help us rid ourselves of the pesky conservative black mold that puts a yukky scum all over our beautiful natural landscapes.

This message brought to you by Democrats for Making The Southwest Beautiful.

but it's a hard battle in the southern part of the state. At least here there are enough Catholics to keep the evangelicals and Mormons under some sort of control, give them humility instead of the hubris they display elsewhere.

Rural people are still suckers for CBN, though, letting the TV do their praying for them while getting their daily dose of propaganda.

Home of some truly putrid hate groups like Focus on the Family.

Beautiful country, but I was shocked at the political environment of CO Springs. Those folks can be found all across the good ol' USA, though.

Although Colorado Springs has an unusually high collection of conservatives, cadets, cowboys and (fundy) Christians.

Pikes Peak is nice, though.

I'll start: every one of you who doesn't immediately leap in to decry a post you never saw is a bigot and a west-basher!

I am about to take a nap, got up early to go out and golf. Watched the moon sitting over the Pacific at 7 AM, took my sweatshirt off at 8, when the temp hit the low 70s, pick away.

Pick on the people all you like. Leave my mountains and forests and streams and lakes and rivers and shores and deserts alone.

Places aren't people. People give the human society in places its strengths and weaknesses. No society, in any place, is a single mindset of drones.

At least the west isn't sending many teabaggers to Congress.

Brie and asparagus? Fuck that!

They make many foods exceptionally well in California. Pizza is not among them.

we've got.

Others obviously do not see things that way and take great pride in showing their hate and bigotry.

.....What about Allen West? Oh, wait!

Let's bash Allen West

Every state has bigotry, every state.

I wish we didn't.

Maybe one day.

There's no hate or bigotry here. Some teasing, perhaps.

We know you're just jealous of our general overall awesomeness*!


(* Except for those folks you mentioned of course, but I'll figure out a reason why they don't count...)

picked on and ridiculed for their issues. Then they get busy, pass a few novel laws, and fix them. Why they lead the country.

I meet someone/talk/know someone that has just moved here from California.

Strange considering all the hate directed towards Texas.

If you can get past the politics, it's a pretty amazing place.

The first legal drink I ever ordered at a bar was a frozen Margarita on the Paseo Del Rio in San Antonio.

i mean mostly the LA area.

Have been from Western rural areas, particularly the mountain states like Montana and Idaho. Of course a hunch of white supremacist movements are based out of those areas as well.

Some people act like only the South is racist, it's everywhere from Boston to Boise.

Arnolds etc

and i think we have even less of an excuse because they win due to many Dem votes. at least in the southern states the wingnuts win because the state is moslty wingnut .

and he was an asshole in New Jersey too.
So, no.