You can boil it down to watching one good person struggling with a devastating illness that science can finally see a cure for, that the religious right would rather he suffer, until it kills him…

Michael J. Fox asks the voters of Missouri
to support Claire McCaskill
(Click on image to go to website and view)

Digby says "As I look at all these issues that have come to the forefront in the last few years, I’m struck by how dumb it is to let the Republicans claim the mantle of values and morality."  And yet somehow we did.  It’s one thing for people to say they’re "pro-life" and another for those same people to champion war, excuse torture, and turn an indifferent eye to sickness and poverty, and the rape of the environment.  They call themselves "pro-family" and take every chance to put the screws to families all over America, and their elderly parents, for the sake of the profits of billionaires.  They demand the right to set standards of marriage and fidelity and sexual conduct for everyone, that they cannot live by themselves in their own private affairs. They lie through their teeth about gay people, and demand respect for their sincerely held faith.  It’s all bullshit.  It’s long past time for the rest of America to call them on it.