Drowning in a sea of rednecks.

What is going on with these red- necks, any- way? I was born in '52, and the prom- ise of a better world was everywhere. Everything was to be better, cleaner, brighter. Yeah, the 60's was a nightmare in many ways, but they also gave birth to a new way of thinking for young people: freedom from racism, from war, from hunger. Educations for everyone, international aid, faster communications bringing us closer together.

Yet now, these kids are running for president, and running the businesses, and trying to turn it all around, send us marching back through time into some kind of Conservative hell.

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, once on the side of gays, is fighting same-sex marriage as part of his campaign. Fred Thompson, actor/senator presidential candidate, proudly proclaims his anti-abortion and pro-Iraq war stance. I know there are lots of dickheads out there already (see FOX News) who believe we should all be locked up for even having sex... but these guys are running for President of the United States (formerly a great world power). And they have support, for Christ's sake.

Well, maybe it's a good thing, I don't know... once the U.S. completely caves in upon itself, the rest of the world can move on.

But I still want to know --and nobody seems to be able to answer this-- what is their motivation? What is this going to get them? Are there truly that many voters out their who give a damn about these issues? And if there are, what is their motivation? Who does this kind of thinking actually help? I mean, what the @#$%@#$&!!?