Oh. Barf. I'm editing a story about the election for my magazine

[eyesroll]

It's a conservative industry. But check this out:

"I think a lot of (members of the industry) think that they canÕt influence the outcome so they use personal beliefs on who to vote for," says (a member of the industry). "But if they would concentrate on business issues, they would be a lot more successful than they ever thought."

In other words -- vote to send your kids to war, your wife back to the 1950s, your parents into poverty -- but your business will be kicking! (And, yes, he comes out and endorses the Republicans later.)

The article gets worse, although we do quote a kickass Dem and an actual conservative who wants the minimum wage to go up, so he can pay his people a decent wage without getting undercut by the competition. So that's something...

:grr:

[GOPisEvil]

1. Yeah, concentrate on business issues such as the wonders of outsourcing!

Sure, send your current employees into poverty, but dammit, you'll make that extra 2 cents per product.

[eyesroll]

2. Well, ours is a service industry, so it can't truly be outsourced

(yet).

But...

[GOPisEvil]

3. Ah, true.

But, if the Republicans truly believe that running the government as a business is so great, how can they justify the hemhorraging red ink of the Bush administration?

Of course, if I start thinking too long about Republican "logic", my brain hurts.

[eyesroll]

4. Hence my headache.

At least my writer's good -- this story's pretty clean and I can get rid of it in short order.