Posted by
skep41 on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:35:39 PM
"Clinton
said she and her husband have many gay friends that they socialize with
when they get the chance. "I've got friends, literally, around the
country that I'm close to. It's part of my life," she said."
Yes,
its election time! Gays arent as numerous as a lot of other groups who
get a lot less attention but they are very politically active and an
especially open-handed group when it comes to making campaign
contributions. So now, with the candidates as hungry for money as a
junkie going through withdrawal symptoms, the gay pander is on!
Now
we are going to have to admit that the thought of John McLame 'going
across the aisle' to make a play for the gay vote is enough to turn the
stomach of any red-blooded American, gay or straight; McLame just
doesnt have much Gay Appeal. He doesnt have much Straight Appeal. Let's
face it, this mutt is just downright unappealing. Because he's
appalling. But thats another post. But there is a group in the gay
community who live lives of quiet desperation, unable to reveal
themselves and openly announce their proclivities lest they be covered
in shame and scorn and even physically assaulted. Yes, I'm talking
about Gay Republicans. Some people, regardless of their sexual
orientation, notice that liberalism doesnt work and generally leads to
disaster. They hate high taxes, they hate overregulation, they reject
social engineering schemes and plans to install central economic
planning in the name of fixing the weather and generally find the whole
panoply of liberalism unconvincing. They have two problems. Left wing
gay activists consider any form of conservatism, no matter how
thoughtful and inclusive, to put one in active cahoots with the 'God
sent AIDS to punish gays' psychotics and any conservative views fill
them with rage. The other problem is that the party that up until
recently stood for conservative values also includes many 'God sent
AIDS to punish gays' psychotics. But their problem has been solved by
McLame and the current crop of Republican leaders who are
enthusiastically renouncing conservatism, relieving gay conservatives
of any obligation to support anyone. Just like straight conservatives.
We all just need to shut up.
But thats not where the REAL action is
in the gay community. Its with the Dems. Now you would think that Obama
would have a natural 'leg up' with the gay community. He's tall with
handsomely chiseled features. Manly. His speeches are filled with hope
for the future and imply a new, happy world to come. The kind of stuff
that idealists and gay activists love to hear.
Except. What do you
think The Right Reverend Wright says about gays in his friendly little
sermons? The truth about black politics is that while they tend to be
far to the left concerning issues of governance and policy black
Americans are very socially conservative. They are anti-abortion and
anti-gay. Very anti-gay. Obama, almost totally unknown except for his
association with The Right Reverend Wright, is linked closely to the
mainstream of political thought in the black community. The anti-gay
mainstream.
Which brings us to the Clints. As the quote above
illustrates Miz Hilly and the gang will go to any length, say any
thing, crawl as low as they need to crawl to get the nomination. I
expect Bill to announce that he tried being gay once but that he didnt
inhale. The Clints are also not ones to be turned off by promiscuity or
kinky sex practices; Bill could campaign in the steamrooms of the most
notorious urban bathhouses without batting an eye. But thats not the
real reason that Clinton III has a handle on the Gay Vote. Obama is
DAD, the father who rejected them and treated them with contempt; Hilly
is MOM, the stern but controlling matriarch who understood. She looks
down on her children and smiles.