Send in a child of five
Just to follow up on Stlo7’s post from Friday, I think we should all read this piece from The Huffington Post. Nina Burleigh discusses the hypocrisy within the Republican Party in regards to homosexuality:
Yesterday, Republicans were sprinting away from shiny-shod, crisply cuffed mountain man Larry. Craig “represents the Republican Party,” Rep. Pete Hoekstra, Republican of Michigan, said. You got that right, Pete! And then: “I think it’s important for Republicans to step out right now and say, ‘No, this behavior is not going to be tolerated.’”
“Tolerated.” Now there’s a word Republicans should meditate on for a long moment.
When I was covering Capitol Hill just before Clinton’s impeachment, every other young, spiffily manicured male staffer I met in Republican Congressional offices was at least androcentric, if not obviously gay. I don’t have a sensitive gay-dar, but there was something about them. Ties never askew, hair immaculately groomed, cuffs gleaming, they usually knew more about my shoes than I did.
Bill Clinton’s voracious heterosexuality had as much to do with drawing their rabid hatred as any of his other attributes. He loved women too much, and if only he’d given equal time and effort to seducing those beautiful men, he might have saved himself some trouble.
I, personally, have always been amazed that the “Log Cabin” Republicans even exist. How can you call yourself a member of a party who loathes your existence and uses the “Gay” issue, politically, as a wedge to garner votes from a right-wing, Christian, Confederate flag waving pseudo majority? A party that believes that your “deviant” sexual tendencies can be “cured”through intense psycho analysis and counseling? Wasn’t it Groucho Marx who said that he would never want to join a club that would accept him as a member? (paraphrasing, I’m sure) Well, I guess the LCRs are subscribing to the Groucho Marx philosophy. Does anybody out there understand this?
hey thanks for the nod of approval
But it was Will Rogers that said, “I never met a man I didn’t like.”
But it was Mae West who said, “a hard man is good to find.”
Marx also said “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. “
Groucho, or Karl?
I was hoping you’d ask that. Groucho.
Karl said “The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. “
It’s more than tolerance. It’s acceptance. To them, choice is a “disease”. Much like clans of early days, when one of the members is “sick”, it’s best to kill them off and move forward. Natural selection, winnowing of the species.
Kicking Larry Craig out of the flock was just that. A further reminder of not only their lack of tolerance, but their inability to even comprehend. I’ve often wondered if it wasn’t just a fear inside of them all. Some manifest of true feelings, masked and buried so deep, that they live double lives, hiding from their true feelings, while condemning those around them to assert their denial of these feelings. God forbid anyone would suspect that someone in the GOP were….gay.
So we will continue to publicly shoot down equal marriage, gay rights, and more so that everyone will know (cough cough) that there is no possible way that anyone of “us” is gay.
Damn you Larry Craig…Damn you!
…well that is unless you’re Mary Cheney…then it’s OK. Heck, we’ll even “let” you have a baby.