"from the Niagara Falls area"

Made me think of The Breakfast Club.

A TWENTY-FOUR YEAR OLD REPUBLICAN?

I don't know if this country is ever going to get better.

@2 And a TEENAGE MOTHER, no less!

"She supports gay marriage..."

Or as the rest of the world calls it - marriage. You wanna say you support marriage equality? Fine. Saying you support gay marriage is kind of like saying "my Jewish friends".

Damn! and now she discontinued her campaign. Too bad.

GODDAMNITDANGETOFFYOURASSANDCONTACTHERTODOAGUESTCOLUMNSTAT!

@7

Translation, since the post got cut off due to lack of spacing:
"God damn it, Dan, get off your ass and contact her to do a guest column stat!"

Dan,
"O brave new world that has such Republicans in it!"
There are more of us than you can probably imagine...

She comes across as more of an attention whore than a young mother with political aspirations.

This woman is being taken any more seriously than Britney Spears because why?

"I have three daughters that are growing up in an educational system that frightens my husband and I. Common Core has GOT TO GO"
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Because it will teach grammar, and we can't have that...... It's "my husband and me", dear.

Seeing she's 24 and has a five year old, I was searching her webpage to see what qualifications she has for office - in the years when most of us are getting an education, learning something about how the working world operates, she's been popping out kids. Couldn't find anything much except she enjoys hunting, fishing, gardening and preserving, none of which are listed under the responsibilities of a Senator.

My god, the girl's 24 years old, has a marriage, separation, three children, and state senate campaign under her belt. I'm now 40 years old and have little more than a bachelor's degree and a pretty impressive tolerance for alcohol to show for it. Hooray for motivation, I suppose.

She's been spending her time doing all that, rather than learning anything. If her political opinions aren't an exact replica of those of her parents, I'll eat my hat.

@10 Shut the fuck up you gigantic fucking idiot.

shit, sorry, that was for @11 of course

[HA]

While it is more than understandable that someone who finally realized the errors of her ways would leave the object of her failed experiment or phase within the course of the next few days, LW's phrasing is severely off. An affair does not have a total duration of one day, no matter how many multiple acts of infidelity were committed. What does LW think her affair (with another woman now that she's come to her senses at long last) is, one of those newfangled opposite-sex marriages - like the one she'd foolishly entered into? She began the affair on that date. Now that she's gotten that hetero foolishness out of her system, let's hope her real marriage lasts a good deal longer.

#14 - hilarious!

Gia...well, I'm thrilled she's cool with same sex marriage. I do think the younger generation doesn't give a flying frack about it. Even republicans in that generation don't care.

I wish her the best of luck in getting her life together; but this may not be the best time for her to run for office, given all the other stuff going on.

If she runs later, hopefully her experiences allow her, as a republican, to sympathize with the safety net and other programs traditionally panned by republicans.

Another example of the stupidity of the republican party. Display your dirty laundry even when you don't have to. She could have just done what all other politicians do and sweep it under the republican rug and gone of with her sorry little life. They aren't too bright, those republicans.....

@20, yes, Democrats handle these things with so much more intelligence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edward…

@4, so it's not enough she supports something she should support, she's not supporting it with enough politically correct language for you. You're not helping.

Gee Dan, just discover libertarians?

They may be pro-pot and pro-marriage-equality, but they're problematic in a lot of other areas. Like living wages and desegregation and sexism and public education and single-payer health insurance and corporate welfare...

If she's not a hypocrite, then her personal life is none of anyone's business. She shouldn't have to suspend her campaign over it.

@4 If a Republican political candidate had language on her website saying that she "supports marriage," I definitely would not interpret that to mean that she was in favor of legalizing same-sex marriages.

It is funny how it always seems like it is the politicians whose affairs don't make them huge hypoctrites that resign right away while the family values people hang on as long as possible.

@23, She might be suspending her campaign because the separation from her husband is already stressful enough for her young children without the campaign on top of it. Seems legit to me.