John McCain’s camp reached out to its queer comrades this week by sending key staffers to address the Log Cabin Republicans this week.
Political director Mike DuHaime popped in on the group, which transplanted itself to St. Paul for the party’s convention. This is the first year the Cabinites have been official RNC guests.
Additionally, McCain strategist Steve Schmidt swung by a Log Cabin lunch today and described the group’s involvement as “important,” reports The Advocate‘s Kerry Eleveld:
I just wanted to take a second to come by and pay my respect and the campaign’s respect to your organization and to your group,” said Schmidt, who many view as the new architect of the Republican Party. “Your organization is an important one in the fabric of our party.”
In his brief remarks, Schmidt weaved in a personal anecdote about his lesbian sister and her relationship to him, his wife, and his children. “On a personal level, my sister and her partner are an important part of my life and our children’s life,” he said. “I admire your group and your organization and I encourage you to keep fighting for what you believe in because the day is going to come.”
Unlike some of his party peers, Schmidt supports gay marriage and in 2007 asked California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to back inclusive legislation.
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TCHB
I suppose the Jews whose job it was to lead fellow Jews to the “showers” were considered helpful as well. They were forced. What excuse do LCR’s have? Money?
WickedGayBlog.com
I want to feel good about things like this but the skeptic in me feels like it is all politics and empty words and the hope of something that may never come.
I for the life of me just can’t comprehend LCR’s. It seems like you have to sell your soul to be a gay Republican.
I know they are suppose to be the party of lower taxes but check your pay stub, my taxes have only gone up the past eight years even when you take out the % increase in my salary and tax base.
David, WickedGayBlog.com
John
Its just that “that day” Smith refers to is going to come a hundred years earlier with Democrats in office.
I say get LCR on the podium with McCain/Palin. That will help with the f*kn redneck voters not.
LCR’s endorsement hurts McCain and helps Obama, so in their own twisted way they are helping
Kari b
LCR: OOOO Stick it in
GOP : Oh I’ll fuck you but I ain’t gonna kiss ya
emb
Kari B, I now have to explain to my coworkers why I was seized by a fit of giggles, thanks to you.
A damn funny and highly accurate assessment, “I ain’t gonna kiss ya”. HA!
Anyway, this is all part of the cuddly new republicans: They don’t condemn pregnant teenagers, they piously defend the family’s right to privacy, they celebrate feminism, and are now happily willing to touch homos with a ten foot pole.
Olive Yurdich
Stupid fags.
Independence of Thought
For a minute I was expecting to read..McCain reached out to LCRs by returning their campaign contributions stating there is no room in his big tent for poofs.
seitan-on-a-stick
Thanks for the Olive Branch, Olive but you didn’t have to self-flagellate here! Go play with Yur-dich
Oh, the LCR! What makes these HomoCons tick? Is it a closeted work environment where they want to fit in with their trust fund or engineering buddies? Do they want to go back to when Gay life was simple like Brokeback Mountain, beaten on a prairie? Is it that the Gay Community is really so large and diverse that it’s hard to find a place to fit in. Those damn Gays. I will fix them and become a Log Cabin Republican! We’re smart and tell each other so by Text Message every day. We are secretly right even if we stand for everything we are against (but secretly). We might get invited to the Big Tent of the G.O.P. if we denounce our brethren. We just want to get fucked like everyone else and I thought I could find a rich husband so I don’t have to work. I just want to be kept…in the dark…like a dog…fed bones….and coming back for more. Because, my father did not love me enough, or my Ex said I was a control freak or my mother was a bitch or I am a complete mess (but wear suits to hide how fucked up I really am.) Don’t ask my Ex or I will Text Message him to just stop. Just Stop…hurting me. So, that’s how (I) became a Log Cabin Republican. “That’ll fix my Ex!” said the Monkey to the Chimp!
WickedGayBlog.com
Is there anyway to block this straight homophobic person from posting this stuff? ugh, I am all for free speech but this shit is just downright white trash ignorant!
Ross
I am by no means a gay republican, nor do i even pretend to understand gay Republicans, but at the very least, this pro same-sex marriage republican had the decency to drop by for a thanks. Thats a million times better than we’ve seen time and again in the past!
greybat
Well, I guess it’s nice there is one republican who doesn’t object to same-sex marriage.
It would be a bit nicer if he didn’t support illegal war, legalizing torture of detainees, wire-tapping,pollution, corporate welfare, outsourcing of jobs,the destruction of arts, education, social safety nets and urban infrastructure.
But the marriage thing is nice.
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