Dee approves this message. So get over it.

  My name is Dee Fortin and I intend to vote sensibly. I vote on the issues that affect me, my friends, my family, my dreams, my hopes for this great country. I will not stand silently by and watch a woman who has no interest beyond her own gun-toting, abortion opposing (even in the event of rape), earmarker of funds for Alaska, abuser of power, bridge to nowhere profiter, ex brother-in-law banishing, women’s rights bashing agenda. I believe in the strength and tenacity of women. I do not believe that Sarah Palin is among us. Her cutesy terms and admitted redneckism, Joe-shmo, hockey ho, perceptions have no place in the lives of hardworking Americans. THIS IS SCARY PEOPLE! The actuary tables don’t lie. SHE MIGHT BE PRESIDENT! I vote HELL NO in November. I shudder to think of the consequences of ignorant ballot casting. We must vote our conscience. Suffragettes lament in their graves knowing this woman is on any ballot, anywhere, despite their battles to grant us voting rights. I am pro-woman, but I am most surely anti-Palin. Let’s not be affected by John McCain’s desperate attempt at appealing to our solidarity as women. We cannot afford to be fooled.

 I will also be voting no on two. The constitutional amendment Article 1, new section, which prohibits, in a nut shell, marriage between any persons other than one man, one woman. Furthermore, Florida is the only state that specifically bans gays from adopting. I challenge any Floridian lawmaker (yes, you Governor Crist), to tell me to my face that I am ill-equipped, based soley on my sexual preference, to care for a child. I’ve been caring for YOUR high school dropouts since I moved here. This is a ludicrous and plain; ‘good ole boy’ redneck philosophy that needs to be expunged. I am here to change the minds of good American people who have sense. But I don’t do it by preaching fear and bigotry from atop an ignorant soapbox. I do it with grace, tolerance and intellect. As my constitution reads to me.

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