Oh, fuck, I hope this isn’t true
Kevin Drum has a dismaying new idea for what the most important event of the campaign has turned out to be.
This won’t mean anything to 99% of you, but: Tara just got shot all over again.
And for those of you who know my characters Annabel, Colley & Keitha, they have a few things to say about it below.
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ANNABEL: No. No. Nonononono! That’s not true.
COLLEY: What?
KEITHA: She read in the Washington Monthly blog that what turned the election for Bush was Massachusetts letting people like us get married.
COLLEY: Oh. Honey, that’s not true.
KEITHA: It’s not. (kisses ANNABEL) Gay marriage is nothing but good, you know that. Even if most of the country isn’t ready for it yet.
ANNABEL: But…(sniffles) maybe we just shouldn’t have pushed it this year. I mean if we’d known…
KEITHA: Hey! It is never wrong to push for the rights you deserve. And they can’t pin this on us no matter how perverse, backhanded and smarmy they are. I love you. And I am going to keep on loving you–
COLLEY: Dear god, she’s gonna sing Journey–
KEITHA: Shut up! (Pause) It’s REO Speedwagon.
COLLEY: My mistake.
KEITHA: Anyway. Annie–(taking her hand)–this is just morning after fingerpointing. We’re strong and we never give up.
ANNABEL: Strong like an Amazon?
KEITHA: Strong like an Amazon, baby.
They embrace.
COLLEY: Now could we concentrate on something important…like getting me a girl?
KEITHA: That’s my boy.
Both women put their heads on one of COLLEY’s shoulders as they sit back on the couch, trying very hard not to sink in a world that suddenly seems a whole lot smaller.
