I think it is really great that the republican attack ads are getting so much play on the network news.  Not only is it exposing their own viciousness and the lengths they will go to discredit their opponents, it is also exposing a part of that underbelly that even shocks me (and that is hard to do).  We’ve gone from the racist Macaca to masturbating seniors? 

Is this a sign of their own repression?  I dunno, but it sure seems that way.  You know that old biblical phrase, “he who has the free hand casts the first stone”? 

I find it quite amazing republicans are going down this road in light of the Mark Foley scandal.  Here in Washington State we have had our share and most recently with the Jim West scandal.  West was a closeted gay republican who took it in the shorts, so-to-speak, when he was outed by the Spokesman Review.  The real sadness here of course was two fold.  That he was closeted, and he recently died from cancer.  Tragedy unfolded in his public and private life within a very short time. 

Someday the republican party will fully overcome their disconnect between humanity and reality. But until then, it looks like this is what they have to offer.  Anything sex is “bad”.  The truth behind the attacks on Ron Kind in the above video was a vote on the continuation of funding for the National Institute of Health research programs.  There were probably hundreds of research projects involved that you or I would do a double-take on unless there were some personal connection to ourselves.  And more likely there were many projects involved to better understand ourselves, our humanity, and why we are the way we are.  Something far too many republicans are more willing to exploit than explore.