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Back in September, I was not yet a contributor, or even a commenter to RT. But, in reviewing this month of Sept’06, it was obvious that these guys were on fire!

As the elections were coming fast upon us, most of the posts were in direct reference to the candidates and the voting. A fund-raiser for “Shot-gun” Randy featuring “Shooter” Cheney (Poster Boys for Gun Control) took up a good portion of the blog and lots of great, sardonic posting was to be found. The D&C’s take was unimpressive. Photos of the protest and the anti protest (featuring a Nazareth co-ed with a sign that said “We love Dick” which, ironically, didn’t need a caption :)) abounded, along with photos from Eric Massa’s Veteran’s picnic where you could have your picture taken with Eric for free to contrast with Cheney’s $1,000.00 a shot (pun intended) photos.

The month started out with the primaries and Hillary’s refusal to debate her opponent, Johnathan Tasini, but also her willingness to support our local congressional candidates with appearances. I was struck by a comment to one of these posts from Exile which was in reference to gender equality which said:

“The soft bigotry of lowered expectations is hardly better than outright discrimination.”

Beautifully said, may I quote you?

A post, regarding primary voting, by btp really grabbed my attention. In this post, the writer is telling his daughter a story about the importance of voting and of being the one to step up to the plate in terms that a 5-year old can understand:

Once upon a time, there was a nice man who wanted to save the day. He was tired of the Mean People. They were always taking things from people and saying mean things about them. The nice man said, “That’s not very nice. There should be rules to say the Mean People can’t do those things.”His friends said, “Oh well, that’s just the way it is. You can’t do anything about it.”

“Yes there is! I’ll run for office!” the nice man said. “What do you mean?” his friends asked. “It means I’ll tell people to vote for me, and if I get enough votes, I’ll get elected, then I’ll be able to make rules that say ‘Mean People, if you keep doing those mean things, you’ll go to JAIL!!!” (She liked the drama.)

I’ll tell you what- Elmo and I are really digging this stuff!! And we love the drama too!!

When channel 13/WHAM was set to air “The path to 911″, RT did what it does best-it advocated for the public and encouraged the public to advocate for themselves. Advertisers and sponsors to the program were listed for contact along with the VP & General manager, Chuck Samuels. Louise Slaughter comes on board and makes an official statement on the issue, and a reporter is sent to Drinking Liberally. Then we don’t hear back from that, did he show?

stlo7 had some great posts, which were instructional in nature, to help us better communicate with the conservatives and non-political junkies in our life in “Talking to conservatives round 3″ and “Always helping voters”. I, for one, am guilty of impatience and extreme adrenaline rush when trying to reason with the dark side and advice on how to “get to Yes” is greatly appreciated.

As the month wore on, the Mark Foley scandal was coming into full swing and a favorite post of mine, from Exile, was Throw Tommy from the train.That, and stlo7’s post, What XXXactly did Tom Reynolds know about Mark Foley and what did he do about it? told the story of of a pathetic little congressman with a disqusting habit of hitting on underage pages (Mark Foley) which Congressman Tom Reynolds was painfully aware of and did nothing. Sadly, this was not enough to unseat this hubristric “Jaba-the-Hut” of a congressman.

Jeanine Pirro also started her tortured path towards the Senate. Here is Minarik’s take. We discussed torture and dissected the ticking bomb argument. Jim Walsh is a little loose with the facts (on tape no less).