“Overall, there are so few homosexuals that they simply don’t have the political clout that racial groups do.”
True. But they give big $$ to rats. Lots of disposable income. Actually, I think for that reason, they get a lot more attention than Blacks do from the rats per voter.
The degree of homosexual clout may be measured by two things: (1) AIDS was the first serious pandemic that a political group had the clout to prevent any quarantine or even any closure of sites that were known to spread the disease (bathhouses). It would be like the water carriers union preventing the shutdown of the town well when a cholera epidemic was raging; and (2) The dollars spent on AIDS research by the gvt is entirely disproportionate to the deaths and disability it causes relative to, say, cancer or heart disease.
But the cold political calculus is clear. The homosexuals who support BO are not just homosexuals—they are serious socialists. They would sooner support satan than a republican—so they have no place to go politically. What BO may be sacrificing is some measure of $$ contributions from the homosexual/socialist community. But that’s not much of a problem for him anyway, what with George Soros, trial lawyers, labor unions, and enormous foreign funding sources.
OTOH, by having Warren appear, he implements the strategy he outlined in his book: “Look clean cut and act polite and white folks will let you do what you want.” What he wants is not good.
Very good points.
I’m curious though about your statement that the homosexuals who supported BO are socialists. Are you saying support in terms of major contributions or are you using it more casually? While I’m sure almost all of the activist homosexuals would vote for Satan before a Repub like you said, do you not think that there are some who vote Democrat simply because that’s what they think any good gay should do? I’m thinking of the more politically casual gays that I’ve met. Many of them wanted Hillary and have concerns about how the black community treats homosexuals. Could Obama completely ignoring them lead some to explore other options?
Not that the GOP should spend much time worrying about how to pick up the votes of homosexuals. Though wealthy, our votes still don’t count more than anyone else’s.