With the presidential campaigns in full swing and many stories drained dry, the media has spent many weeks speculating over who main contenders John McCain and Barack Obama will pick as their running mates.
Though both have remained relatively tight-lipped on specifics, Obama and McCain have both thrown out names here and there, but few are more intriguing than Tom Ridge.
In an interview with The Weekly Standard, Republican McCain discloses that he’d consider the former director of Homeland Security even though Ridge supports abortion rights. While that’s interesting enough – Republican voters are not known to support pro-choice national candidates – we’re particularly intrigued by McCain’s “lesser evil” rationale:
In the interview this morning, McCain suggested that Ridge would be more palatable to social conservatives than [New York Mayor Mike] Bloomberg.
“I think it’s a fundamental tenet of our party to be pro-life, but that does not mean we exclude people from our party that are pro-choice. We just have a – albeit strong – but just it’s a disagreement. And I think Ridge is a great example of that. Far more so than Bloomberg, because Bloomberg is pro-gay rights, pro, you know, a number of other issues.”
This, we think, stands as a prime example of the right-wing’s disdain for true social evolution. Looking at the voters, McCain clearly thinks that less strident abortion policy would be preferable to dolling out equal rights. It’s better, in his mind, to bring on a candidate who – the horror! – won’t try to overturn Roe v. Wade, but will maintain a hard line on the homos. Just pitiful.
John K.
I just wrote on another forum that I can’t believe McCain phrased it the way he did. Saying that Bloomberg is not acceptable because he is “pro-gay rights” is about as blatant an anti-gay statement as it gets. He could easily have said it was because Bloomberg was “pro-gay marriage” or “against maintaining marriage as the unique status between a man and a woman,” but instead he makes a blanket statment that a person who is “pro-gay rights” is unacceptable. Log Cabinites take note and beware. Don’t be stupid and fool yourselves into thinking McCain is gay-friendly in ANY way, shape, or form.
Sean S.
I’m sure that Log Cabin’s will assure us that it is essential we support John McCain lest “Islamofascists” take over America and gay people are denied marriage, discriminated against, and banned from the military…wait a second.
mark
Log Cabins HOSED some more.
do you guys buy Fabreeze by the case?
seitan-on-a-stick
Bloomberg is not as Gay-friendly as we are paid by his Public Relations machine to believe. He works behind the scenes to block Same-Gender Spousal Benefits of businesses who do Contracting with New York City.
40,000 New Yorkers were arrested for under a gram (pin joint) of marijuana under the heinous Mayor Guiliani and 400,000 arrests during Bloomberg’s terms using racial profiling and not acknowledging Medical Marijuana use and blocking any of their initiatives in passing despite his bus ads proclaiming “He inhaled and Liked It.”
Let’s not even get started on the War on Gay Clubs here which are the center of Nightlife in this city. He sure likes the photographers to open the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Soho but forget about “Walking on The Wild Side” as Manhattan is being turned into a Bedroom Community of the filthy (and very boring) Rich from the suburbs. The lisping Mayor will no doubt endorse Ray Kelly for the Republican nomination.
70% of New Yorkers have drank the Kool-Aid because this town is in B(l)oomtown of Corporate Welfare Development displacing milions of Black, Asian and Spanish residents with a high proportion of gay homelessness as we are forced to move into dangerous environments as Gayborhoods are besieged with the “transnational restuarant express” for the tourists and the Uber-celebrity Rich. Try finding a Supermarket that’s not gourmet and expensive…or buying a sandwich for under $10.
Bloomberg would be an awful Governor aligning with the anti-Gay Marriage Republicans when we already have a Gay Marriage Supportive Governor in Patterson.
“Don’t Even Get Me Started!” Mary Katherine Gallagher from old SNL would say.
John K.
Bloomberg’s actual gay-friendliness aside, McCain has cited gay-friendliness as a deal breaker in a VP. McCain is the more immediate issue here, not Bloomberg. Any gay person who votes for McCain should have his or her head examined.
eliana
Further infuriating the already-seething Republican right-wing base, John McCain is has been dropping the name of Tom Ridge as his vice presidential running mate. Tom Ridge? The abortion-rights supporting former ex-governor of reliably Democratic and blue collar Pennsylvania?
Let’s get a rundown on the guy who might inadvertently tip the scales for Barack Obama: http://www.236.com/news/2008/08/14/i_want_to_be_number_two_tom_ri_8288.php
seitan-on-a-stick
Like the Owner of ManHuntdotNet who donated to McAngry!! BTW – Bloomberg is only as Gay-friendly as the Rich Queers who donate to him but the rest of us, we should crawl away and die…
TJ in the West
Ridge was the governor of Pennsylvania, not Georgia.