Our visit to the local Mexican restaurant tonight

[Missy Vixen]

It's very hot in the Seattle area, and we can't seem to get our house below ninety degrees. DH and I decided to pay a visit to the local Mexican restaurant. It's got good food and air conditioning. I should also mention that the owner of the joint is an acquaintance of ours; we'd like to stay on good terms with him.

We sat quietly, nursing our cold sodas and minding our own business, when I heard a loud female voice from two tables down: "Who's that tall blonde Republican -- you know her, the really hot one who writes all the best sellers and tells people how it really is?" The woman expanded on her remarks; I leaned over and said, "Ann Coulter."

"Oh, yeah!" she enthusiastically said. "She's the greatest! I really like her!" I resisted the impulse to immediately offer a loud retort and listened. Ladies and gentlemen, it was a wakeup call for me. It was amazing to listen to anyone who must experience the type of cognitive dissonance the woman I'm describing must perform daily in order to sit up and respirate. After several more positive comments about Ms. Coulter, she continued to tell the rest of the tableful of what I could only imagine were her friends how she's a "pro-choice Republican" and proud of it. She also expounded at great length on the fact that she had had an abortion 11 years ago, and "thank God. I'd have an 11-year-old right now." The loud woman in question looked to be in her early 30's. She was at a table with two other women and a guy who was being roundly ignored while the other three tried to impress each other.

The only reason why she didn't get a faceful from me was a) I was with Mr. JulieRB; he doesn't like scenes in restaurants, and b) we like the owner, we're on good terms with him, and I'd like to stay that way.

The "pro-choice Republican" at the restaurant tonight will tell anyone who'll listen that she's thankful to have had an abortion, but she'll deny that simple right to other women who might also want the opportunity to have control over their own reproductive systems by her ignorance and her complete inability to understand that each time she votes Republican, she's voting against her own self-interests. The longer I listened to her, the sicker at heart I got.

If she and her ridiculous views are any example of what we're up against in November, I'm telling you, I despair.

Julie

[sgxnk]

1. good mexican food in seattle?

a pretty rare thing. about as rare as good pizza here.

[Missy Vixen]

2. The place is owned and run by those who emigrated from Mexico

>a pretty rare thing<

It is, and we very much enjoy the food.

Julie

[sgxnk]

6. i just got back from mexico

and i know from mexican food. i also used to live in california (where good mexican was easy to find)

i actually found there are a VERY few good mexican food places here.

VERY few

the ONLY good pizza i have found is a place in Kent Station.

actually, i take that back. there's a place on university ave. that is pretty good for a late night ex-post etoh slice

[Suich]

22. Have you ever tried this place for pizza?

http://www.tuttabellapizza.com/

It's excellent, imo.

[sgxnk]

24. no

but i bookmarked it. thanks

[Hailtothechimp]

11. There's a place in Belltown I really liked

On Virginia, I think. Can't think of the name right now. But I think I liked the hot waitress more than I liked the food. So nevermind.

[Missy Vixen]

13. I think you might be talking about Mama's

We've been to Mama's several times. I used to also very much enjoy the Tlaquepaque cantina when I worked at 1st and Spring.

Julie

[Hailtothechimp]

17. I think it was called La something or other.

It's been a few years, but I think the name was longer than one word. This will bug me until I figure it out.

[sgxnk]

20. ay carumba

was she CALIENTE?

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. I often wonder why we Liberals chose to keep our mouths shut,

while CONservatives shout their BS from the rooftops, with no qualms about how others around them feel? Is it a case of class vs no class? Manners vs no Manners? Or are they just uncouth clouts, period? I thought Seattle was Liberal? Was the loud mouthed woman a tourist?

[NMMNG]

10. Cons think everybody needs and wants their opinion

Liberals know better.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. Well said! And I knew that, so why don't they?

:rofl:

[NMMNG]

18. Bad manners, ill breeding

They have the fundie stuff bred into them--that proselytizing impulse. "Go preach to everyone" and all that. They just extend it beyond the Gospel to every thought and opinion they have.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. You should have told her than Coulter was really a man..just to see the

reaction...:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. !

:spray:

[progdonkey]

7. she's only "pro-choice" because she got pregnant...

It's disgusting when you see someone who's obviously "pro-choice" only because she actually had to make that choice. Had she never gotten pregnant, she'd be a full-on anti-choice wingnut, calling the women who are in the same position she was "baby-murdering sluts," and the like.

She's even more revolting than the most anti-choice RWer, because at least with them, it's (ostensibly, at least) "no choice for you, but also no choice for me." Her viewpoint is, "No choice for me... oh wait, I'm pregnant, scratch that... um, choice for me, no choice for you."

[rucky]

8. At least some of them have the good sense to abort. n/t

[Missy Vixen]

14. You know, it makes me out to be not very nice, but

I was relieved to know she wouldn't be shaping a young mind. Unfortunately for all of us, she then held forth for 15 minutes or so on how she "can't wait to get pregnant again." :scared:

Julie

[rucky]

16. maybe her mother didn't give her enough attention as a child?

:shrug:

[Missy Vixen]

30. She wanted to let the bar know how "proud" she is to be a Republican

:puke:

Julie

[oasis]

9. Hopefully, some of the restaurant help overheard her, and told the cook.

:evilgrin:

[bliss_eternal]

15. I think Congratulations are in order--

because there's no way in hell I could have tolerated such a situation without 1)blowing my top, 2)telling her just how retarded I thought she was, and 3)telling her what a disgrace to all women I think people like Ann Coulter are, while calling her by her true name, "fascist party doll" (Thank you, Richard Belzer).

:toast: Cheers to you for doing what I doubt I would have been able to! :hi: And thanks for sharing. She sounds like an asshat.

Have you noticed that since shrub's been in office, more repukes are publicly vocal about their views? That hasn't always been the case--not even in the Reagan years to my knowledge.

[Missy Vixen]

19. She must have had some liquid courage

>Have you noticed that since shrub's been in office, more repukes are publicly vocal about their views?<

She was really belting her opinions out. In other words, she was spoiling for a fight.

Truly. If we didn't know the owner and Mr. JulieRB had not been with me, I would have backed up the truck on her -- "So, it's okay that you had an abortion, but by your voting record and political beliefs, you'll preclude another woman from having that choice?" Then I would have followed up with, "How many current Republican national officeholders are pro-choice? I'd like you to name five."

Julie

[bliss_eternal]

25. Good for you...

...showing such restraint. :hi:

Women like that make me sick, too. She's got a hell of a lot of nerve. But you know the repuke mantra, "...do as I say, not as I do." :puke:

So. Typical.

[wtmusic]

21. These are the people

who make me think it's hopeless. The people who never look beyond their little bubble until it's too late. :(

[babylonsister]

23. If that woman was so outspoken, I might have seized the moment

to call her on her views. I might have delighted in the opportunity!
But I respect the fact that you didn't want to make waves.

[cboy4]

26. I would have had to walk outside. You should be able to go somewhere

and eat and not have to listen to that bullshit.

[Full Metal]

27. Who the hell:

discusses their abortion over dinner?

[xchrom]

28. republicans.

[Missy Vixen]

29. It's got to be one of the weirder experiences I've ever had

>discusses their abortion over dinner?<

We were in the bar area of the restaurant, but still. What's next? A moment-by-moment description of her next visit to the OB/GYN, or something equally as inappropriate?

Julie