After read­ing Robin’s arti­cle in At the Back Fence , I found myself a lit­tle taken aback at the tone and largely unmoved. Pol­i­tics and romance. A nice mix, eh? You want my hon­est opin­ion? Are you sure?

I think as romance read­ers we should pick and choose our bat­tles. Do I care that some ass back­wards unknown politi­cian labels a book pornog­ra­phy just to get votes? It’s been stated that said politi­cian has lit­tle to no funds and has no chance of win­ning. Yet in still we must get up and arms about this idiot call­ing a romance novel “pornographic.” 

Clearly he hasn’t read a book in years stat­ing that the opponent’s name being almost on every page of the novel in ques­tion is indica­tive of a huge ego. [Laugh­ter.] This man has no influ­ence. Are we seri­ously wag­ing war against this idiot? Yes, it’s fright­en­ing that some­one this stu­pid can run for office but why must we defend our­selves to this clown?

I can’t be moved to this cam­paign. Sigh. I have more impor­tant things to sorry about. Sorry. The RWA Chap­ter in Texas have voiced their opin­ion.  As for me, silence is pow­er­ful. If there hadn’t been a response, no one would have known any­thing about this whole thing and the only take home mes­sage would have been for me was that I need to make sure I vote. All this is just smoke and mir­rors, folks.

I may stand alone in my thoughts on this whole thing but in a nut­shell, that’s how I feel.