The GOP is completely compromised and will never again reflect the values most of its voters hold dear.
It’s time to ditch the GOP. It’s the only way conservatives will ever be represented.
I’m with you!
Hey, a majority of Republican leaders do not support this anti-marriage stuff. But if you pick up your marbles and go home eventually the anti-marriage and anti-life folks might have all the power in the party. Will that have done any good?
So true...
What I would like to know is, how did queer little creeps like Mehlman a) get the leadership slot at Red in the first place? (yes, yes, 43 appointed him), and b) where in hell did all these queans wind up at the top of the Republican Party?
Ike and Ronnie and Barry Goldwater would have hurled chunks.
That is, before the queers ran a compromising black-op on Barry involving a family member (I'm convinced it was one: They pulled the same crap on Bob Dornan and Jerry Falwell later on).
I once thought that perhaps Goldwater's episode was the template gays drew on for their later ambushes of Falwell, Dornan, and Dick Cheney (the long, strung-out one involving Mary Cheney, whom the diesels at the HRC/GLBT caucus were trying to get to come out so they could ambush/browbeat Dick and Lynn for four years before she finally came out). Now I think they must have known how to play that game before they went after a former nominee of the GOP, after which he famously went soft on homosexuality.
Footnote: In his Making of the President 1964, Theodore White recounted the mid-campaign Walter Jenkins affair, in which Jenkins, a prominent LBJ aide, was busted in a local YMCA men's room by DC Police for soliciting. White praised Goldwater for refusing campaign-staff entreaties to use the incident as part of Goldwater's morality offensive against the ineffably corrupt LBJ. In hindsight it appears that Barry may have been offered a demoralizing counterthreat by LBJ, whose appetite for opponents' peccadillos is a matter of historical record (see Robert Caro, throughout). LBJ had the full run of FBI raw files on everyone (as well as wiretap teams) and will probably have known about Goldwater's younger kinsman, even if Goldwater didn't. Or it may be that LBJ ordered Jenkins to take one for the team, in order to lure Goldwater out. File for later reference.