Who We Are


We are not the stereotype of the typical Republican. We drink. We smoke. We cuss. We like The Simpsons and Family Guy, but we love South Park. We are Goldwater Girls Gone Wild and cynical punk rockers and drunk frat boys and bong-toting Burkeans and chain smoking blue collars and right-wing ravers and conservative clubbers and postmodern iconoclasts and Wall Streeters partying like it's 1982. We are metalheads and deadheads and parrotheads. Our heroes include Johnny Ramone, Jonah Goldberg, Greg Gutfeld, Hank Jr., P.J. O'Rourke, Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, Ted Nugent, Neal Peart of Rush, Kid Rock, Andy Levy, Andrew Breitbart and Frank Kelly Rich. We love Ronald Reagan and PBR with straight shots, and Margaret Thatcher and fine cigars with Scotch. We often lean more libertarian than traditional conservative on certain issues, and would love to kick the ass of anyone wearing a Che t-shirt. We care a helluva lot more about a candidate's tax policy than past drug use. We are well informed on pop culture, the latest music, and Milton Friedman. We read National Review, Ayn Rand, and The Onion. Our religious beliefs range from devout to atheist, but we are more likely to be nursing a hangover on Sunday morning than in a church pew. And we are getting damn tired of people exclaiming, "YOU'RE a Republican?!?!"

Friday, October 17, 2008

Review: Call & Response

Last night I viewed the documentary Call & Response, which brings attention to the disturbing issue of human trafficking, an institution that still exists in the world today in horrifying numbers. I've followed the issue for years, but Call & Response contains some shocking undercover footage, interviews, and music that seeks to both illustrate the suffering of those involved and inspire action on our part. The issue of human trafficking involves adults forced to work as labor slaves to children forced to be prostitutes. If you are like me, you have been burned in the past when seemingly nonpartisan issues have been turned into an orgy of anti-Republican and anti-capitalism sentiment. This is not the case with Call & Response. This is an issue everyone is united on, and yet it is not an issue addressed often. So few are doing something about this abomination, and I truly hope the reason for that is ignorance of what is happening and not because we've collectively put our heads in the sand. With Call & Response, you will no longer have the excuse of being uninformed.

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The Edwards Report, the right wing Onion rip-off.