Posted on 09/04/2004 8:11:12 AM PDT by Spiff
by Todd Evans
South East Arizona Republican Club
The Log Cabin Republicans are at the Republican National Convention doing everything they can to disrupt the efforts of mainstream members of the party who support, along with President Bush, defense of traditional marriage and protection of the unborn. The Log Cabin Republicans have stated that they are unlikely to endorse President Bush unless he and other convention speakers support their radical gay agenda.
Now, the radical group has released a TV ad in which they invoke images of Ronald Reagan and then claim that Republicans who oppose same-sex marriage and abortion are engaging in "hate" and "intolerance". At the end of the TV ad, so offensive that CNN refused to air it, they liken conservative Republicans to extremists who carry signs stating the "God Hates Fags".
Once married, now openly gay, Rep. Kolbe serves on the National Advisory Board of the Log Cabin Republicans. He was a keynote speaker at one of their conventions, appears regularly at their events in and around Washington, D.C., and is a hero to them. He has accepted thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from this radical organization.
Now, this organization is attacking the President, the mainstream of the Republican Party, and the Republican Party platform. They are accusing most Republicans of engaging in "hate" and "intolerance" and are likening them to extremists who believe that "God hates fags".
It is an outrage that this radical organization would engage in this offensive behavior and make such insulting statements. It is a further outrage that Rep. Kolbe is a significant part of this organization and its agenda.
I've sent the following questions to the Kolbe campaign and I demand answers:
The Log Cabin Republicans organization has stated that they will not endorse President George W. Bush unless he and other Convention speakers support their radical agenda.
This organization has just released a TV ad in which they invoke images of Ronald Reagan and claim that those Republicans who oppose their radical agenda are engaging in "intolerance" and "hate". The ad likens those Republicans to the extremists who carry signs claiming that "God Hates Fags". The ad is so controversial that CNN has refused to air it.
According to the Log Cabin Republican website, Rep. Jim Kolbe serves on the Log Cabin Republicans National Advisory Board.
- Does Rep. Kolbe, a member of their National Advisory Board, support the position that the Log Cabin Republicans have taken in that they will not endorse President Bush unless he and other Convention speakers support their widely unpopular and radical agenda?
- Does Rep. Kolbe, a member of their National Advisory Board, agree with the message of the Log Cabin Republicans TV ad that those Republicans who wish to defend traditional marriage and protect the innocent unborn are engaging in "hate" and "intolerance" and that they are similar to the extremists who carry signs that say "God Hates Fags"? (The ad can be seen at www.logcabin.org.)
- Will Rep. Kolbe denounce the offensive actions of and statements by the Log Cabin Republicans and condemn the TV ad and its extremist and insulting message? Additionally, will Rep. Kolbe return campaign contributions he has received from this organization and resign from his position on the Log Cabin Republicans National Advisory Board? Or will he continue, with his association with this radical organization, to support their extreme agenda?
I called the Kolbe campaign for answers and his press secretary had no response. She did not even know that Kolbe was on the National Advisory Board of the Log Cabin Republicans, didn't know about the ad nor the LCR's position on President Bush and the GOP platform. She promised that if I emailed her the questions that I would receive a response. The Kolbe campaign has totally stonewalled me on these questions despite repeated emails and phone calls. One can only assume that they are ducking from the truth: Kolbe supports the actions of the Log Cabin Republicans.
Todd Evans is the President of the South East Arizona Republican Club. He can be reached at todd.evans@searclub.com.
No wonder Kolbe has been snubbed by both Bush and Cheney in their recent visits to Arizona. I wish there was a way to get rid of this RINO, but it doesn't seem likely.
The use of the word Republican in their name is despicable. A neighbor of mine who is not very politically up-to-speed heard their disruption at the convention reported as "a group of young Republicans" protesting the convention. I'm sure they KNOW full well that the left leaning media will twist their name to make them sound like real Republicans. Very slick, and totally deceitful.
Of course, I then had to explain to my friend that they weren't REALLY Republicans, blah blah blah..........
I think they should put the log back inside the cabin, and keep it to themselves.
It's getting good down here. A week out from the vote and Kolbe is running ads with Jon Kyl saying how swell he is. Kyl voted for the Brady Bill too. Grant Woods has a "mainstream" bunch attacking Graf with ads playing on Limbaugh and Hannity. Anything that has Grant Woods' name on it should be sanitized. He's the epitome of a turncoat RINO McCain hack.
I hope Graf can pull it off and finish the "pink RINO" once and for all. I already voted.
God doesn't hate fags. He just despises the behavior of fags....
Any TV ad that says, "God hates fags" is OK by me.
Time to boot some folks out of the tent
Where was the barf alert?
Cheese
The Log Cabin just
burned down
Posted: September 4, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Robert Knight
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
If there was any doubt about whether or not the Log Cabin Republicans, or LCR, belong in the GOP's "big tent," it was resolved this
week. They don't.
LCR, which is trying to make the GOP safe for sodomy, first became conflicted when President Bush endorsed the Federal Marriage
Amendment. They threw what amounted to a hissy fit, announcing that they weren't sure they would back the president in
November. Some Log Cabin leaders, such as District of Columbia City Councilman David Catania, even yanked photos of the president
off the wall. Take that!
But the LCR outdid itself when, during the GOP convention, it unveiled a 30-second TV commercial that is right out of a textbook by
radical, left-wing homosexual activists.
The ad begins with a clip of Ronald Reagan saying that he hoped that history would "record that I appealed to your best hopes, not
your worst fears." Then the ad moves on to images of Jerry Falwell, Pat Buchanan and Rick Santorum, noting that these kinds of
folks would divide "the GOP with an intolerant social agenda based on fear and exclusion."
Finally, the ad wraps up with shots of the Rev. Fred Phelps holding a sign that says "God Hates Fags" at beating victim Matthew
Shepard's funeral.
In the 1989 book "After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s," homosexual activists are
advised to smear opponents two ways: "jamming" and "bracketing."
According to authors Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen:
Jamming makes use of the rules of Associative Conditioning (the psychological process whereby, when two things are
repeatedly juxtaposed, one's feelings about one thing are transferred to the other) and Direct Emotional Modeling (the
inborn tendency of human beings to feel what they perceive others to be feeling). … Thus, propagandistic
advertisement can depict homophobic and homohating bigots as crude loudmouths and a--h---es.
To complete the conditioning, the authors explain:
In TV and print, images of victimizers can be combined with those of their gay victims by a method propagandists call the
"bracket technique." For example, for several seconds an unctuous beady-eyed Southern preacher is shown pounding
the pulpit in rage against "those perverted, abominable creatures." While his tirade continues over the soundtrack, the
picture switches to heart-rending photos of badly beaten persons, or of gays who look decent, harmless and likable; and
then we cut back to the poisonous face of the preacher.
For years, hard-left homosexual activist groups have used these techniques, and many prime-time television programs have
employed milder versions, showing the "bigot" who believes in traditional values juxtaposed against the angelic homosexual.
In Log Cabin's ad, legitimate figures such as Falwell, Buchanan and Santorum are thrown in with pathologically hateful Fred Phelps, a
nobody who shows up with incomparable timing at "gay" funerals to provide an ugly caricature of Christians. It doesn't matter that no
respectable figure anywhere on the political spectrum endorses Phelps' bizarre antics. Many conservatives, including me, have
openly denounced Phelps' tactics and his denial of the truth that homosexuals, like any other sinners (and that's all of us), can
repent, be forgiven and enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Well, even liberal CNN recognized a smear job when they saw it, and refused to run the Log Cabin ad. Log Cabin Executive Director
Patrick Guerriero responded, "Last week we told the Republican Party that you cannot sugarcoat the vicious and mean-spirited
platform, today we want CNN to know that you cannot sugarcoat the politics of fear and intolerance that lead to hate."
Note: the "mean-spirited platform" supports a constitutional amendment protecting marriage as the union of one man and one
woman.
Log Cabin isn't the only radical group to play the Phelps card. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has done so liberally, with a
four-color mailer that shows a line-up of playing cards, with President Bush as the Joker, Pat Robertson as the Ace of Diamonds, Dr.
James Dobson as the King of Hearts, Sen. Bill Frist as the Jack of Spades, and Vice President Dick Cheney as the Queen of
Diamonds. Phelps, as the King of Diamonds, is slotted between Rep. Tom Delay (the King of Clubs) and political consultant Ralph
Reed (Jack of Diamonds). Other cards depict Attorney General John Ashcroft, Sen. Trent Lott, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, Eagle Forum
President Phyllis Schlafly, Campaign for Working Families' Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell, Pat Buchanan and Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia.
The Task Force proclaims that the answer to such bigotry is "millions of fair-minded Americans like you."
Authors Kirk and Madsen summarize their approach this way:
"Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers."
"Give potential protectors a just cause."
"Make gays look good."
"Make victimizers look bad."
The masks have come off, and they reveal that LCR is just part of the radical, leftist crusade to transform America into Sextopia,
where marriage means nothing and children are taught that homosexuality, fornication, transgenderism and every other variant of
sex is normal and healthy.
It's time for the Republican Party to realize its mistake in giving Log Cabin any official recognition.
It's one thing for individuals to join a party. It's quite another to give credibility to a group that promotes the polar opposite of the
GOP's bedrock support for family values.
Commentary by Steve Yuhas
September 3, 2004
What is it about the nation that we’ve become so hyphenated? We’re African-American, Asian-American, Jewish-American and now the newly famous Gay-American. What used to be wonderful about the Republican Party is that it resisted the urge to over-hyphenate itself into little special interest groups that got together every four years simply to oppose candidates; rather it closed ranks to actually stand for something.
The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) calls itself a Republican organization. The organization claims 12,000 members, but that is hard to believe since a query of memberships in the three most populous states: California, Texas and New York of state LCR office showed duly paid membership totals of only 233 people.
Their mission statement says, “We are loyal Republicans. We believe in low taxes, limited government, strong defense, free markets, personal responsibility, and individual liberty.”
Sounds Republican to me, unfortunately, there is more to being a Republican than simply talking about national security and limited government. The devil is in the details and when it comes to social issues the LCR run lock step with the most radical gay organizations.
According to Christopher Barron, political director of the national office of the Log Cabin Republicans, “we are a gay organization and don’t take stands on issues that don’t directly involve the gay community.” I inquired if he could tell me any social issue that doesn’t affect gay people and his response was, “I’m not going to do your research for you.”
LCR desires to legalize gay marriage, are opposed to the Federal Marriage Amendment, desire to lift the ban on gays serving openly in the military, want even more money to be spent to seek a cure for and treatment of American HIV/AIDS patients and seeks to elevate sexual orientation to the same level as race in the eyes of the law. Those are the only social issues that LCR believe are important to the Republican Party; amazingly they are the most radical and divisive in society today.
I pressed Barron for information on how issues like school vouchers and faith based initiatives, but his explanations all went back to the LCR being a gay interest group and not very interested in issues that don’t affect gays. Surely there is a gay family somewhere that would love to remove their child from a poorly performing school and if any of their members fall on their luck or become addicted to drugs, would it be a bad thing to take a position saying that federal funds should be permitted to go to a church that specializes in cleansing the body of the drug and the soul of the need?
Everything they stand for and everything they fight for is the antithesis of the mainstream social agenda that most Republicans desire and the only social issues that matter to them have to do with their sexuality.
Barron even took credit for the prime-time speakers list at the Republican National Convention, “look at the prime-time speakers list, LCR had a lot to do with mainstreaming the party.” I asked him if he truly believed that the speakers for the convention were picked because they happen to be on the gay-friendly list of Republicans and he was quite adamant that they were.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is speaking because he is the Republican governor of California with an almost 75% approval rating and Rudy Giuliani was mayor on that terrible day in September when our nation was attacked in the same city hosting the convention. Those men are obvious speakers, but Zell Miller certainly doesn’t believe in pushing a radical gay agenda and President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the other major speakers at the convention, are not onboard with removing morality from the GOP.
Most recently the LCR joined with pro-choice Republican groups to insert what they call the “Party Unity” plank into the GOP platform. It said, "We recognize and respect that Republicans of good faith may not agree with all the planks in the party's platform. This is particularly the case with regard to those planks dealing with abortion, family planning, and gay and lesbian issues.”
Thankfully, the platform committee rejected the already obvious concept that people in the GOP have differing views on issues dealing with abortion and sexuality. There was no need to put it in writing and make the issues seem trivial when they are not.
Anyone can be a member of the Republican Party and anyone who wants to affect change need only attend meetings and take on a leadership role. I take exception with the notion that one has to be a member of a fringe group hyphenated by a special interest to affect change.
I have been a gay social conservative member of the party for many years. I don’t believe that the radical gay agenda that the left embraces and the LCR wants to push upon the GOP is good for society or the GOP.
I like belonging to a party that believes in the importance of marriage being a union between a man and a woman and one that believes that children belong in a home with a mother and a father. LCR have a goal to turn the GOP into a version of the Democratic Party when it comes to social issues and I reject the premise that we should not stand up for traditional American values, especially when the group advocating the change can’t look beyond its own sexuality to see what is best for America.
When it comes to the LCR one need only look at their mission statement and issue papers to see that they are donkeys masquerading as elephants and if they had their way the GOP would no longer stand for anything beyond protecting the nation and decreasing taxes.
Social issues are not peripheral to either political party - certainly not the GOP. For the LCR to pretend that they are is to deny what it really means to be a Republican. The party more than simply “tolerates” people who disagree with parts of the platform – it embraces them, but the GOP will not turn itself into a party of interest groups at least one of which runs lock step with the radical gay social agenda.
If members of the LCR want to belong to the GOP and to actually make change – they need to come and sit at the adult table. When you faction yourself into an interest group that is defined by you sexual activity – you’re going to remain at the kiddie table when dinner is served.
Frankly, the 233 dues paying members of the top three states deserve to be at the kiddie table until they stop defining who they are by who they sleep with and join a party that doesn’t care what they do in the bedroom.
Steve Yuhas is a conservative, gay journalist and talk show host living in San Diego.
I think RINOs are more dangerous than RATs. They are death of the Party on a national electability level...
Basically, he was pleased the mines were shutting down because of the "positive" effects on the environment both physically and politically. He said that the workers in the mining industry were mainly Mexican and thus Democrats and wouldn't be missed / shouldn't be helped. As it turned out, the Reagan Administration declined to act on Chile's dumping of copper in order to help the non-communist government taking hold there. I took one hell of a beating on my housing costs and have since lived in Nevada and now Oregon. The base of high paying, industrial jobs is largely gone from Arizona. I, and many of my friends, have remained non-Democrats (though generally not Republicans due to the traditional Arizona hostility -- Barry Goldwater was the only Republican that reliably visited the mines).
If he's engaging in the same Frisconian 'bathhouse antics' as those he supports, GRID will probably end his career soon.
Ping
I think Graf will - I think he really means what he has said about our border and I think he really means what he has said about terrorism.
None of this will matter if we don't stop terrorism everywhere. All other issues pale in the light of that. Elect men and women who are thinking clearly - Thank heavens for President Bush who is not perfect, but who clearly sees what needs to be done and has the courage to do it!
None of this will matter if we don't stop terrorism everywhere. All other issues pale in the light of that. Elect men and women who are thinking clearly - Thank heavens for President Bush who is not perfect, but who clearly sees what needs to be done and has the courage to do it!
Kolbe and Mclaim.... are two democrat moles in republican holes... McLain however seems to be getting positioned for a 2008 run for President... otherwise why all the sucking up to real republicans.. Kolbe's lickspittle is just drool...
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