Your Kids Ain’t That Cute

I know I have been away from blogging for quite a while.  And I thought my first post back would be about some of my soul searching I have been doing lately, along with my new style of barstool politics pundintry.  One of my campaign pet peeves has recently crawled under my skin.  I just got one of those automated phone calls from a politician , Eric somebody, who is running for something.  I hung up the phone before I had a chance to listen to the message.  Why I didn’t listen to the message?  He had his two little girls record the phone message, something to the effect of (in baby talk) “Hi I’m Suzy and I’m Megan our daddy is Eric ….  He is running for….(click!).

This Eric dude may or may not be somebody worth checking into.  I don’t know.  But I am not giving him the time of day if he is going to pimp out his kids to pander to me.  Since my name, phone and address is on different Republican lists I shall assume that he is a Republican.  Isn’t it ironic that Republicans whine about Hillary Clinton and her It Takes a Village to Raise a Child book.  Yet, when they want to get elected they shove their kids in front of the village.  They want the village to think that “His kid is so cute.  I think I will vote for him.”  Well this is one village idiot who ain’t falling for it.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike kids, I just think it is phony for politicians to show off their “happy-ass families.”  Growing up, way back in the late 70’s and 80’s, people didn’t shove their kids into other people’s faces.  The theory then was, “children should be seen and not heard.”  Your kids were your kids and your neighbor’s kids were your neighbor’s kids.  I don’t know how it was in the political sphere back then.  But I do know that this “Ain’t my kid cute?” campaigning has only been common within the past couple years.

I am so sick of getting those stupid fliers in my snail mail box for whatever politician.  On the front of the flier is the candidate, his Valiumed up smiling wife wearing some sort of sweater set, the cute little kids and doggy playing in a park.  Then when ya open up said flier, what is listed first as his “qualifications”?  He has been married umpteen years to “the love his life” and/or “highschool sweetheart”.  Blech!  They have 2.5 kids.  He’s coach of his kid’s soccer team or whatever.  I don’t give a rat’s rooty-tooty about his personal life.  Where does he stand on the issues?  That is the most important thing.  But yet, Republicans want to be the party of “Family Values” and somehow that translates into choosing the politician with the phoniest family life.  Again, blech!  The more a politician shoves his family in my face the more I think he is shoving his “family parts” in the face of someone he shouldn’t.  If you aren’t that smart, basically, I think that he is committing adultery.  The politician who talks about the issues first and foremost and says “oh by the way I am married to …, we have some kids.”  That is the guy who has the better family values.  It is a sign of character that he doesn’t need to prove something to people.

Don’t even get me started on pro-lifers who yammer on about schools teaching young kids about (whisper voice) s-e-x.  Yet, these same people bring their kids to pro-life rallies and put a sign in their hand.  Umm, how do these parents tell these kids why they are there and what abortion is without talking about (whisper) s-e-x?  I am pro-life, but I think it is cartoony when I see pics of kids at pro-life rallies.  These are on family blogs, pro-life websites and candidates fliers and websites.

Those of you reading this may be thinking that I have left the Republican Party.  Not really.  I just want to keep them in check and bring common sense back to the party.  I am an American before I am Republican.  I want to blog from the point of view of the jaded small town American who doesn’t trust politicians from any party.  I will get into that more.  You can bet your sweet bippy that there will be changes around here, changes for the better.

Oh, yeah, to those of you who bring your kids to events that should be considered as adult events, take your kids to pro-life rallies, let them run around Wal-Mart or Olive Garden unattended screaming their heads off with no supervision and you stare at them smiling and laughing thinking it is cute,,YOUR KID AIN’T CUTE!