The Log Cabin Republicans are throwing quite a tissy over John McCain’s gay-baiting. In case you haven’t been paying attention, the Republican presidential candidate came under fire after allegedly organizing a robo-call denouncing Mitt Romney’s gay friendly ways.
The right wing bent boys (and girls) posted a hypocritical rant on their website in which they blast the “left wing” bloggers for attacking McCain. They write:
The attacks on Sen. John McCain by the gay Left are completely out-of-bounds and don’t reflect the facts.
Let’s look at those facts:
Had anyone bothered to reach out to the McCain Campaign, they would have realized Sen. McCain immediately stopped the calls. The campaign told us Sen. McCain never saw the script and never approved it, which is why he stopped the calls ASAP.
Of course, those facts won’t satisfy the left-wing who pounces on these kinds of things. But where were these same left-wingers when Democrat Barack Obama, who has never introduced a single piece of pro-gay legislation in his Senate career, paraded around on stage with an anti-gay religious leader who believes in so-called “conversion therapy”?
Actually, loads of “left-wing” bloggers – including ourselves – came out against Obama after the McClurkin scandal.
The Log Cabin Republicans are missing the point of the McCain episode. The fact that his campaign – with or without his knowledge – ran such a tasteless ad not only taints the political pool, but speaks volumes about how the Republicans consider queer citizens. The fact that the Log Cabin Republicans can’t see that makes us wonder whether they understand liberal democracy – period. Unless, of course, they’re more concerned with self-interest and would rather ignore their party’s institutional homophobia.
How about we take this to the next level?
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mozzer13
I always take anything the Auntie Toms have to say with a block of salt.
emb
I try and try and try and just can’t wrap my poor, simple brain around the Log Closet, er Cabin, Republicans. I mean, of course it’s totally OK for individuals to hold conservative views on issues such as taxation, education, foreign policy, immigration, etc. We homos are not TOTALLY defined by our sexuality, obviously. But at the same time, to link one’s conservative views to a party that, while perhaps sharing them, is aggressively and proudly engaged in campaigns of hate and intolerance against homosexuals, happily wielding the cudgel of the law and willing to violate the sanctity of the Constitution to further isolate and dehumanize us…well, THAT’S the bit I don’t understand. It’s like being a black guy joining the KKK because he shares their anti-immigrant positions(and I don’t apologize for the analogy).
LCRs, you just CAN’T have it both ways. You need to choose to be closet cases in a party that openly loathes who you fundamentally are, because you agree with their myopic and selfish social and fiscal policies; OR you need to identify yourselves proudly as conservative homos, leave the party that hates you, and vote for individuals who share your views. There’s no “changing the party from inside.” That’s utter nonsense.
Mark Snyder
The log cabin republicans are war mongers who have one thing in mind – oil and big pharma profits. Look at their sponsors.
todd
All they want is more war, less taxes and the right to laugh at sissies and trannies! McInsane is their man!
gay as life
LCR’s are in denial. They find conservatives sexy and want to be accepted by big bad businessman Daddy. Unfortunately Daddy just uses them and plays them for a fool.
Alan down in Florida
Log Cabin Republicans missing the point? How trite.
LCRs tend to be affluent and think that their money and professed Republican status will protect them when the enemy comes looking for us queers for their version of the final solution (See Proceed At Your Own Risk today if you think this is overreaction). Guess what LCRs? Wrong again.
Neil
I get so much flack for being a bisexual conservative party of canada supporter. The CPC didnt even try and set up a booth @ torontos pride because they knew they would be harassed.
If you think all openly LGBTQ people should leave the republican party, fine. However, the best way to make the republican party more gay friendly would be if the log cabin republicans were more powerful and if there were a possibility gays might vote right wing.
I think both right wing north american politcal parties and the (very very diverse) LGBTQ movement need to make bridges, not burn them.
Matt
Do what I do. Don’t vote. It makes life a whole lot more enjoyable not having to worry about who likes who.
spunkbox
I’m ashamed to say, I have slept with a few gay republicans. They have small cocks and bad breath.
emb
Neil: The US Republican party is not going to “change from inside” as long as it’s a haven for rightwing religious nutjobs…and it shows no signs of abandoning that key constituency. If we were talking about the Goldwater Republican Party, which was far more libertarian and far less inclined to shove government into peoples’ private lives, that might be an argument; but we’re not.
Why should GLBT conservatives who support, in word, dollar, and action, a party that openly despises them? And why should they not be called out for being either hypocritical or stupidly self-defeating? And for that matter,why SHOULDN’T a political party with clearly-stated anti-LGBT positions be harassed? I don’t know whether the CPC is analogous to our republicans (probably not, since the world’s conservatives seem to be our Democrats, and the world’s liberals have no US corollary).
And Matt, since I know of no words adequate to describe my feelings about your comment, I’ll shut up.
blackiemiko
I can’t understand LCR’s either. The Republicans totally hate us and would round us up and extermiate us all just like the Nazi’s. Trust me, they would.
Upland Oddball
Other gay-friendly blogs have noted that John McCain in particular has a disproportionately large number of gay men serving in as a Senator and as a candidate. He is not a Huckabee, surrounded by Bible-thumping neanderthals. Quite a few of these gays had to be in the know when the decision was made to okay these robo-calls. And that makes them and McCain especially pathetic. With McCain and company in the White House, we can expect to be thrown under many a bus.
Paul Raposo
What’s even harder to understand than LCR’s, are homocons who hate the LCR’s because apparently the LCR’s aren’t conservative enough and are too focused on gay issues. Many homocons today still hate the LCR because they did not endorse Bush in 2004. Those people have a serious disconnect from reality.
Bob
Don’t try to understand it, just accept that simply because they’re gay doesn’t mean they’ve learned anything from the experience.
bigdawg
Personally I don’t get, or want to understand it, Wanting to be a Gay Republican to me equals being Back and wanting to join the klan.
Jack Jett
Gay republicans enjoy emotional S&M.
Jay
LCR are the small opening that gays need. Like it or not we are often ruled by conservatives or Republicans. Rubbing gay gay gay in their face isn’t going to win them over. When you vote like robots for one party why would either side help you anyway. I haven’t heard Hillary talking it up about gay issues much. It’s because she doesn’t have to. She has all of you robots lining up already. There is way more people than just gay, and if you can’t understand why some people have a problem with gays they certainly aren’t going to line up to understand us. Too much hate and fear. Take the high road for once. It’s so much easier to bitch after doing it.
seitan-on-a-stick
Matt is in a K-hole, Jay is the masochistic spankee of the Log Grabbin Repulsives (LCR) who is completely lobotomized by the Smeardia to “Blame Hillary” for Bush’s mistakes, being ignored at the gay bar, your Mama slapping the Doctor, your Father calling you a “nancy-boy” Hey, Blame Hillary. Why? She’s the biggest threat to the Republican Whore-tocracy and the Homocons who suck straight dick with lipstick so their wives won’t suspect it’s the party of self-hating fags. Makes Democrats look pretty damn like the only alternative to this sickfest of bacchanalia they promulgate. Everyone knows about Jack Kemp’s inside the beltway gay Republican Whore-gies and there are plenty to carry that torch in their sick Caligula party of Homocons.
Bill Perdue
GLBT Democrats are clueless. You scream about how bad the Log Cabin Republicans are but you party has consistently thrown us under the bus. Your party overwhelmingly voted in favor of DADT and DOMA and your President Clinton signed them and then ran campaign ads flaunting his bigotry for singing them. Your party’s run Congress for two years but refuses to repeal them and even gutted ENDA and then dropped it and the Matthew Shepard hate crimes bill so they wouldn’t be campaign issues. Your party nominates and supports gay bashers in the courts and for Attorney General.
If you oppose gay bashers you’re in the wrong party. If you oppose the war in Iraq you’re in the wrong party. If you oppose union busting you’re in the wrong party. If you vote for the Democratic (sic) Party you’re wasting you vote on a party of bigots.
EMB your insight into the comparative politics of the Conservative parties in Canada and the UK, and John Howards ‘Liberals’ in Australian and the Democrats is basically correct. The Conservative parties, like the Democrats and Republicans, are right centrist parties characterized, from our point of view, by their bitter and obstinate opposition to same sex marriage equality and GLBT protective laws against hate crimes and hate speech and laws to prevent job and housing discrimination. They all support Bush’s war and bust unions.
mariner
It time to flush the GOP. Grand Old Potty!!
Matt
What’s a K-hole.
AKN
Well then, Bill Perdue, what the f*ck party should we be in if you’re so convinced the Democratic party is ‘wrong’ for us?
Bill Perdue
AKN – Election laws in the US are profoundly anti-democratic and restrictive. The result it the two party systems and the result of that is that in most elections a plurality REFUSES to vote. Politicians dismiss them as lazy but in truth they’re so revolted with the twin party shell game that they opt out of the process.
The bad news is that once again there won’t be a viable electoral challenge to the two lesser evils in 2008. Nader and the Greens may run but they don’t have any clout or major backing. Both parties in the US are right centrist and both support imperial military adventures like Vietnam and Iraq. They united to pass NAFTA and other union busting laws, they give lip service to opposing bigotry and they’re both bought and paid for by the rich.
Since Lincolns murder people in the US have turned a distrustful eye on the twin parties and politics in general. They’re rightly disgusted by being offered one dismal ‘lesser evil’ after another. They don’t buy into it and neither should we.
The good news is that people no longer accept the Democrats long standing practice of making promises to get elected and then backstabbing their constituents. Republicans and Democrats support the war, pander to bigots and are jointly responsible for a big drop in our standard of living and an ominous economic crisis. Those problems require solutions which neither the Republicans nor Democrats can deliver. Already most people who vote the Democrats are to the left of the Democrats and when they find out they’re in for another four years of Bush Lite they’ll be saying adios. For the GLBT communities the best place to go is the union led and organized US Labor Party which is (ever so painfully slowly) mounting an electoral challenge to the Clintons, McCain’s, Pelosi’s and other right-wingers who run the twin parties.
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