In praise of the hard left

Ann at feministing claims that Democrats are better in bed than Republicans. I personally wouldn't know. I've never had a member of any American political party. Social democrats make better lovers.

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[Eli]

The fact that you refer to sleeping with someone as "having" them reveals how much older you are than me. Either, that, or Canadians talk like old people when discussing sex.

[Lindsay Beyerstein]

You better believe it, sonny!

[Chris Clarke]

Get off my lawn, both a yez.

[Chris Clarke]

Um, I mean "Once you've had Green, you'll never go back."

[mds]

Well, I plan to abandon my Independent status in order to vote for Ned Lamont in the primary, and I'm only a Metro North ride away. Well, of course I'd probably have to switch to the 4, and then figure out where to go from there in Brooklyn. But I'm only a Metro North ride, a ride on the 4 line, and some unspecified transfer at Atlantic Avenue away. Unless you're located near the J line, in which case...Wait, you are in Brooklyn, right?

Despite the above, I have noticed that moving to the left politically initially made me less uptight, including in intimate matters (How's that for sounding like some sort of codger/codgette?). Now, the past few years have made me uptight for different reasons, but at least it's no longer my conservatarian hangups getting in the way.

[quisp]

this is clearly related to your previous whiny/conservative post.

[mds]

"Once you've had Green, you'll never go back."

So, suddenly we're discussing M&M's instead?

[John]

I bet Republicans are better at BDSM.

[Lindsay Beyerstein]

"Once you've had Green, you'll never go back."

Well, I voted for Nader in 2000. And I'll never go back. I certainly got had on that one. (It was Massachusetts, I was young...)

[John]

After I've been drinking for a while I'm about as selective as most other men who've been drinking for a while. Political affiliation goes out the door, because at that point there are only two requirements: A pulse and a vagina. (And if I've been drinking REAL heavily, then it just has to feel like a vagina).

[Eli]

I'm only a Metro North ride away.

METRO NORTH HOLLA! Once you terminate in New Haven, you never go back!

[Eli]

That's a setup for "'til next Friday," by the way.

[mds]

Once you terminate in New Haven, you never go back!

So that's what the young people are calling it these days?

[Dadahead]

Why would anyone have sex with a Republican?

[John]

Dadahead:

Alcohol.

[coturnix]

Right after the GOP convention I found this juicy tidbit on a NSFW site - a blog written by an escort who writes on her experiences with Republican clients during the RNC. Read the comments, too, including one about an escort who never takes Republicans as "....invariably they were fat, BAD about paying and almost all of them had a kink too wierd to deal with. Usually the 'mommy spank, beat me, **** me' kind- to the extreme. ":
http://www.nyhotties.com/archives/2004/09/reflections_on.html

And, of course, check Pam's House Blend for all the examples of Republicans having sex with animals: http://www.pamspaulding.com/weblog/

[Matt]

"Once you've had Green, you'll never go back."

Well, I voted for Nader in 2000. And I'll never go back. I certainly got had on that one. (It was Massachusetts, I was young...)

I've got it! What America really needs is a ridiculously wealthy, antiquated and disgustingly in-bred sex-symbol equivalent of the British royal family. A royal family with sex-appeal. The World as Will and General Hospital. With real hefty ceremonial, as opposed to actual, power and authority. Speeches filled with empty rhetoric galore.

If not an outright solution, I really feel this would help us to at least acknowledge, and thus perhaps someday (with God's help) negotiate, the troubled waters of the chiasmic gap between the symbolic and the real.

Also, we're discussing Tronti on Long Sunday. And we'd be curious in your thoughts, as always, Lindsay.

[Alon Levy]

Well, I voted for Nader in 2000. And I'll never go back. I certainly got had on that one. (It was Massachusetts, I was young...)

When/how did you get an American citizenship?

[Idealistic Pragmatist]

When/how did you get an American citizenship?

And, um, *why*, if you don't mind someone asking who went in the reverse direction? I've actually been dying to ask that for some time ...

[Summerisle]

Think about the Communists, when it comes to kinkiness. I have two words for you: hammer & sickle.

[verbatim]

Are Canadians automatically leftists now? Somebody better tell the PM. Of course, many Democrats could pass for Canadian Conservatives in a pinch, so I guess...

Also, isn't it un-American to have dual citizenship? You could be part of a fifth column trying to introduce human rights into the US or something.

[Mister Nice Guy]

I notice that as I become more of a leftist, I'm also becoming kinkier. But in a nice, consensual sort of a way -- I don't gratify my desires by forcing my attentions on Iraqi prisoners or pregnant teenagers.

[Dabodius]

I don't mean to be indelicate, but..."member"?

[Dabodius]

And did you say "hard left"?

[cfrost]

I'm with coturnix and Dadahead. Sex with a Republican really would be perversion. Ick. I think I'll go wash my hands now.