Couple of reasons why I ain't a rabid right winger

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

1-Why is it that they seem to think lowering taxes for the super-rich is more important than cutting down on poverty?

2-I'm told that somehow I'm threatened by gay marriage, but so far I've yet to see anyway in which I'm negatively affected by two people of the same gender marrying.

3-Why is it always anti-American to criticize Bush? No one claimed it was to criticize Clinton while he was in office.

4-How does banning lapdances or passing stupid regulations on strip clubs benefit me?

5-And why does protesting a war always supposedly mean that you hate the troops? Claimed about John Kerry then, and claimed about the anti-war movement now.

6-Why the hell should I support people like Robertson and Falwell?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Ronald Reagan

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics

Just search for Reagan in the first article and trickle down in the second

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

So what exactly were Reagan's tax cuts all about? Those are what popularized the term.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I don't feel at all threatened by gay marriage, but out of obedience to what I believe God has to say on the matter, I cannot support it.  When it comes to the clear written word of God, I have no choice but to obey.

that's why there's a difference between civil marriage and religious marriage.

Is this really a "rabid right wing" thing?  There's a balance that must be struck between personal freedom and the enticement and corruption of youth.  Also, between personal freedom to pay women to writhe nude in front of you and community freedom not to have that kind of thing going on in town.  In other words, have your fun, but keep it away from schools and residential neighborhoods, and local municipalities should be able to choose not to have strip clubs in their backyard.

If enough municipalities forbid strip clubs, it will become rare enough that some enterprising municipalities will decide that the potential revenues outweigh the moral ickiness.  Simple market forces.  That is why the Wisconsin countryside is dotted with Paradise Lounges and Centerfold Clubs.  They're out of the city where they don't really bother anyone.

I don't care about that. Minneapolis put them all in the red light district. It works. What I don't like are stupid laws such as that strippers can't get naked if the place serves alcohol or the even more repressive and tyrannical laws that some places have passed such as "distance rules" basically banning lapdances or banning the strippers from touching the customers. What's the point of that?