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Just voted in West Hollywood

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It took me about 20 minutes to vote at my polling place.  The lines weren’t particularly long.  Four precincts voted in the same location and mine was the only one with a line.  When I arrived, one precinct had only one voter:

We had to check in three times, but they never once asked for ID, first at the front door where they directed us to the appropriately colored table, then once at that table, first by our last name, then by street address. It struck me that the man who lived in my apartment before I moved in was still on the books. He moved out in June 1999.

This is the shot of the whole gym where I voted:

A young woman in Hollywood with guts

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This gal has guts, daring to wear a Romney-Ryan T-shirt to a Hollywood Trader Joe’s:

Posted with her permission.

BUILDING ON A READER’S COMMENT: Eric said he’d “LOVE to have heard the comments she got wearing that shirt!”  When I saw the T-shirt and introduced myself, she was already engaged in a conversation with a woman in late middle-age delighted to discover someone so open about her support for Mitt Romney.

We had a nice chat and even took on a left-of-center patron shocked to see such a T-shirt. . . .

The second largest newspaper in Los Angeles. . .

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. . . perhaps taking its cue from the largest paper in the Hawkeye State has just endorsed Mitt Romney for President, citing the failure of Barack Obama to live up to his promise or to do his job. . .

It is precisely this kind of partisan divide that Obama promised to end. He was going to make history not only as the United States’ first black president but as its healer, vowing to lead the nation into a new era of cooperation. But that promise to blend blue America and red America into purple America is an example of Obama’s failure of leadership.

Sad to say, the reservations our editorial board expressed about Obama in 2008 have been borne out. His inexperience in an executive position has been exposed. His naivete about his chances of getting much of his program through a deeply partisan Congress has been cured the hard way.

Instead of taking charge in Washington, Obama has shown unwillingness to take even the most basic step in presidential leadership: picking up the Oval Office phone to bring his influence to bear on reluctant representatives and senators.

By contrast, the editors find Mitt Romney to be

. . . an honorable, trustworthy and steady leader who, had he been the Republican Party’s nominee four years ago, would have given Obama a tougher challenge than the reckless duo of John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Romney has proven his leadership qualities as a business success, as the trouble-shooting head of the Salt Lake City Olympics, and as the governor of Democratic Party-dominated Massachusetts. [Read more…]

Why there aren’t more Romney-Ryan signs in California*

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Vandal Keys ‘Obama’ Into 2 Cars In Alta Loma:

Someone keyed the word “Obama” into two cars and slashed seats in another outside a residence that had Mitt Romney campaign signs.

CBS2 and KCAL9 reporter Rob Schmitt spoke to Ken Slown, owner of one of the keyed vehicles.

Slown actually supports President Obama!

He explained to Schmitt that he and his wife — both currently unemployed — are staying with her parents and it’s her parents who support Romney.

it would be worse in West Hollywood.  Wonder how many more Romney-Ryan signs we’d be seeing in “blue” enclaves if Republicans didn’t fear the wrath of the forces of tolerance.  (Alta Loma in San Bernardino County is far less Democratic than the area where I live.)

Kudos to the local media for doing what their national counterparts fail to do–cover the news.

Editor’s Note:  He’s unemployed and he still supports Obama?!?!?

*and other “blue” enclaves.

2012 Democrats defined

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Yesterday, I drove around Hollywood and up to Pasadena and didn’t see a single Obama bumper sticker (nor any Romney one for that matter). But, I did see a fading “O” window sticker just to the right of this bumper sticker:

This image seems to correspond with much of what I read on Facebook, liberal friends attacking the Republicans as horrible, no good and very, very, very bad.

It seems Democrats this year define themselves not by what they support but by what they oppose.

Once again, GayPatriots finds welcome among conservative bloggers

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Last night, I attended a small bloggers’ gathering with conservative/libertarian blogmeister Glenn Reynolds and his lovely wife Helen Smith. It was delightful to see how many people were familiar with this blog and amusing to note how many people confused me with Bruce. Many follow his tweets and appreciate his wit.

Just because he automatically tweets out all this blog’s posts doesn’t mean he writes them all.

Not only do other conservative & libertarian bloggers read this gay conservative blog, but they welcome us as they would any other blogger.  And we’ve said this before.