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McCain Depletes the Testosterone Levels of America's Youth

By W. James Antle, III on 10.21.09 @ 4:26PM

A new study claims something like that:

As polls closed on election night, researchers at Duke University and the University of Michigan had 183 men and women chew gum and spit into test tubes and analyzed their hormones.

A few hours later, as Barack Obama supporters began celebrating, they tested hormone levels again, and then later, at two more intervals.

Men who voted for Obama maintained stable testosterone levels, while men who voted for McCain saw those levels drop more than 25 percent.

Or maybe Barack Obama depletes the testosterone levels of conservative young men.

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Si Vis Pacem| 10.21.09 @ 5:29PM

But Jim, Sir, have you never heard of Rule 5 Sunday?

S.L. Toddard| 10.21.09 @ 5:35PM

"Or maybe Barack Obama depletes the testosterone levels of conservative young men"

That's the only plausible explanation. I doubt many conservatives were that devastated that John McCain didn't get elected.

Si Vis Pacem| 10.21.09 @ 5:53PM

S. L. Toddard is what we get when the the country suffers Electile Dysfunction. There is a cure, of course.

c. j. acworth| 10.21.09 @ 6:30PM

Electile Dysfunction! Haw!! Best one I've heard in a while, Pacem. You oughtta copyright it.

Si Vis Pacem| 10.21.09 @ 8:52PM

Heh... Thanks, but it's probably not new. It's a riff on something that Mark Steyn had said about demographics as destiny... "erections have consequences" or "the penis, mightier than the sword!" At least, I think that's what Styen said. Anyway, he's a whole lot funnier and more interesting than poor Reto, er, Toddard.

Johnno| 10.21.09 @ 7:44PM

Flaccid Toddard--I like it!

Eliza| 10.21.09 @ 7:59PM

The men who voted for McCain were RINOs: Their testosterone levels are always low.

Margie| 10.21.09 @ 11:11PM

The men who voted for McCain were smart enough to realize that Obama would be far worse. So how's that Hope n' Change workin' out for ya all?

Margie| 10.22.09 @ 12:20PM

Having said that, though, I do not give my money to the RNC, haven't for years, and I do vote for conservative candidates, and am just as angry as you are. I'm a Reagan conservative. I just refuse to "stand on principle" as you call it, and let a Socialist Dem get elected by giving away my vote. That's where we differ.

SoCon| 10.22.09 @ 3:10PM

You're blind. You didn't stand on principle, you supported a RINO and you got Obama anyway.

How's your strategy workin' out for you anyway?

For someone who quotes the Bible constantly, you sure don't stand for much.

Margie| 10.22.09 @ 4:44PM

Sorry, not blind. Have my eyes wide open. You didn't hear what I said. I don't vote for RINO's. I voted AGAINST Obama for Prez. by NOT allowing my vote to go for him. You have to face reality. By not voting for McCain, you let your vote go to Obama. That's just a fact. And we will get Obama II if you do it again. I'm guessing by what you're saying here is that's what you're going to do. But why? Why do you want to allow it again?
As for your judging me, it doesn't stand.
Again~ I didn't "run McCain." In my state Fred Thompson had pulled out of the race, that's who I would've chosen as the nominee. I voted for McCain as the nominee because he could possibly win with Sarah Palin on the ticket. He did become the nominee for the party, and so I voted for him for President. Did you see anyone better to vote for? Did you vote for a nominee for President? If so, who?

Surely a Republican administration would have been alot better than this Fascist administration. I'm sorry that you feel you have to vilify me for doing the best thing I could possibly have done.

SoCon| 10.22.09 @ 5:04PM

I'm not vilifying you, Margie; I'm holding you accountable for your actions--just like you should hold the RNC accountable for running RINOs and selling conservatives out.

If we don't stand up and hold the RNC's feet to the fire right now, we'll never have true conservatives as our nominees. The time is now!

Look what they're doing to Sarah Palin; they're trying to destroy her! I'm so angry with the GOP I could spit. I can't speak for you, Margie, but I will hold the RNC leadership accountable, it's the only way we'll ever save our country.

God help us and give us strength.

Margie| 10.22.09 @ 5:16PM

I will never let my vote go to a Democrat as long as I have breath in me.

We could have had at least a Republican administration if we all voted for McCain.

Fact: If you are planning on throwing your vote away to another third party candidate, or not voting at all, we will have you all to thank for Obama II.

SoCon| 10.22.09 @ 5:26PM

We have weak republicans like you to thank for Obama I (and probably Obama II) because you choose not to stand up for what is right and as a result encourage the RNC to run RINOs. You put the STUPID in "The Stupid Party."

Perhaps you should do more than just mouth Biblical platitudes--try living them.

SoCon| 10.22.09 @ 1:02AM

Margie, when we run RINOs like McCain we get beat. We wouldn't have this Obama disaster if we'd nominated a real conservative!! I'm sick and tired of not standing on principle, it doesn't work anyway. If you don't stand for something, you don't stand for anything at all.

People will NOT vote Democrat-lite (RINO) when they can have the real thing.

Margie| 10.22.09 @ 12:15PM

SoCon,
I do stand on principle because my conscience tells me to not let my vote go to the Democrats every time. Is it better to have the present admin? We could have had a Republican admin. which I know and you know would have been better for the country. Do you think we would have had this dismantling of our entire free market if we would have all got behind McCain? No way. (You don't have to answer, as I think I already know your answer.)

SoCon| 10.22.09 @ 3:14PM

WE would have had a republican administration if we'd run a true conservative. Unthinking republicans like you follow the RNC like sheep and that's why RINOs are always nominated. You're wrong.

Margie| 10.22.09 @ 4:53PM

If I were unthinking, as you say, I wouldn't have voted at all, or I would have voted for a no chance to win third party candidate.

SoCon| 10.22.09 @ 5:18PM

I voted for McCain, too, but unlike you I'm not happy about it. Talk about throwing your vote away--we both did. Nothing will change as long as republicans like you let the GOP treat us as sheeple being led to the slaughter. Strength through Jesus Christ is our only salvation.

Isaiah 41: "Fear Not, For I am With You."

Margie| 10.22.09 @ 5:22PM

Republicans like me? You are holding me accountable yet you voted for McCain as well? I'd call that hypocrisy. And you are also being quite unfair in saying that I was happy about it. I wasn't happy about it, but LIKE YOU I did the right thing.
~end of conversation!

SoCon| 10.22.09 @ 5:34PM

No hypocrisy here; I never said I didn't vote for McCain--that was your erroneous assumption; I said I objected to the RNC running RINOs. You have a problem with reading comprehension.

Go ahead, turn tail and run; weak people always run away when faced with the truth. Of course you want to end debate because you know you're wrong.