The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

I normally don't have much beef with the reporting of Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post , but a recent article of his made me give a facial expression so out of whack, only my mother could love it, and even then, she'd only be saying to be nice. The article was entitled, "Cecily Strong was wrong about Hillary Clinton's appearance being off limits," and it started off like this: "Comedian Cecily Strong asked reporters to raise their right hands and make a pledge during her speech at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Saturday night. 'I want all the media to put their hands up and swear something this election season,' she said. 'I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance because that is not journalism.'" Not long after that, Cillizza added this: "To a point, I agree with Strong. Hillary Clinton, by far the most high-profile woman in politics for, well, the better part of the last two d...

It seems as if more and more articles in recent days and weeks have sprouted up about GOP candidate Mitt Romney's religion - Mormonism. In the majority of these articles, the writer author asks the question, "Will Romney's religion hurt his chances in the election?" or it flat out states that Evangelicals will not vote in as large of numbers for Romney as they would for a Christian Republican candidate, like Herman Cain. I read an article today that 20% of Republican voters and 27% of Democratic voters would not vote for a Mormon. I have to say, that's disappointing. I'd refer to myself as a liberal more so than a Democrat, but given the choices, I typically vote Democrat. Now, I don't know how many of those very Democrats would vote against a Democratic candidate who was Mormon. I have to imagine those numbers would decrease and the Republican numbers would increase, but that's mere speculation. For the time being, those are the only numbers we have...