Puckstop31
11-06-2008, 07:30 PM
I had a long drive this evening. I drove up to my aunt's house in North East PA for a little turkey hunting tomorrow and possibly Saturday. Driving through the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area I tune into The Randi Rhodes show.
(No wonder liberal talk radio can't dig into the market... She is supposesdly the BEST one, but all I heard was a lot of passive-aggressive anger. The name calling was off the chart... But that is not my point here...)
She made a EXCELLENT arguement about why the passing of Prop 8 in Cali is just horrible. I actually, HONESTLY agreed with her 100%. To paraphrase; passing any Constitutional Amendment should not be as simple as passing a single up or down vote. It should be 2/3rds of the House, 2/3rds of the Senate and 2/3rds of the people/states. Further, I am a Christian. But the libertarian in me agrees that same sex couples should be able to have the same civil benefits as straight couples. Heck, even allow them civil "marriage". I would take issue with a church marrying a same sex couple, but again, that is not my point here.
Hearing her excellent (seriously) arguement got me to thinking.... I wonder if she would fight to protect the 2nd Amendment with the same passion? I wonder what her thoughts on the "fairness" doctrine would be? So I called up the show....
The call screener asked me what I wanted to talk about. I was 100% honest. I said I am a Libertarian and that I agreed 100% with Randi's opinion about why prop 8 was such a silly thing. Then I said that I wanted to ask Randi, on the air, if she would defend the 2nd Amendment with such passion? Also, if I would be allowed, I wanted to hear, again on the air, what her thoughts were about the possibly imminent "fairness" doctrine.
They told me that they were not taking "conservative" callers tonight. They are celebrating Obama's victory. :( Also, I think I was listening on a hour delay, so that might be a honest reason to not take my call.
I am going to try a few more times to see if they will put me on the air. Even though it is quite possible, her being a pro and all, that she could trick me into something. Which would be embarrasing, but I don't care. It would prove something about her.
(No wonder liberal talk radio can't dig into the market... She is supposesdly the BEST one, but all I heard was a lot of passive-aggressive anger. The name calling was off the chart... But that is not my point here...)
She made a EXCELLENT arguement about why the passing of Prop 8 in Cali is just horrible. I actually, HONESTLY agreed with her 100%. To paraphrase; passing any Constitutional Amendment should not be as simple as passing a single up or down vote. It should be 2/3rds of the House, 2/3rds of the Senate and 2/3rds of the people/states. Further, I am a Christian. But the libertarian in me agrees that same sex couples should be able to have the same civil benefits as straight couples. Heck, even allow them civil "marriage". I would take issue with a church marrying a same sex couple, but again, that is not my point here.
Hearing her excellent (seriously) arguement got me to thinking.... I wonder if she would fight to protect the 2nd Amendment with the same passion? I wonder what her thoughts on the "fairness" doctrine would be? So I called up the show....
The call screener asked me what I wanted to talk about. I was 100% honest. I said I am a Libertarian and that I agreed 100% with Randi's opinion about why prop 8 was such a silly thing. Then I said that I wanted to ask Randi, on the air, if she would defend the 2nd Amendment with such passion? Also, if I would be allowed, I wanted to hear, again on the air, what her thoughts were about the possibly imminent "fairness" doctrine.
They told me that they were not taking "conservative" callers tonight. They are celebrating Obama's victory. :( Also, I think I was listening on a hour delay, so that might be a honest reason to not take my call.
I am going to try a few more times to see if they will put me on the air. Even though it is quite possible, her being a pro and all, that she could trick me into something. Which would be embarrasing, but I don't care. It would prove something about her.