Bush campaign mum on any openly gay staffers

Washington Blade and other sources ^

[anniegetyourgun]

Don't be a troll.....of course he's not gay....he's just homelier than a mud fence.

[TommyDale]

"Is Ken Mehlman Gay?"

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

[carlo3b]

Ken and Ralph Reed were invaluable on election eve...

GASP... you don't mean to say.. Really?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn.

[cyncooper]

Ken and Ralph Reed were invaluable on election eve... When Drudge came on Sean's show, and started reading the poor exit poll results, Sean spoke to Reed on the ground in Fl. Reed said that Drudge is absolutely wrong, that they've EXCEEDED their election expectations, and that they would win Fl. Mehlman did the same exact thing on Ohio, confidently predicting that we would definitely take it.

Liz Cheney did the same thing. Which puts the lie to the nonsense that the campaign believed the false exit poll numbers.

When Rove said later that he felt sick when hearing the numbers for the first time, I'm sure he meant over the depths the opposition was willing to go to.

[meema]

This is disgusting. I don't know why this is still up. Just trying to make trouble for a Republican.

Who cares, besides hillary's lovely legs?

ZOT!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

He is being "McGreevy'd"

[backhoe]

As I haven't seen him storming San Francisco for a marriage license or parading half naked down the streets of New York stimulating a sex act, I don't really care. He's proven to be competent, he deserves the position. BTW, I'm beginning to wonder at subversives seeking to fracture Christians from the Republicans. First Kerry attacks Mary Cheney, then people run around saying the nominated AG is not fit to serve because he may be pro-Life, now a rumor campaign about Mehlman's sexuality. Unlike the left, I know the actual meaning of tolerance. If the person is competent I can disagree with them on social issues and still support them in high positions. It doesn't mean my stance on those social issues is weakened in any way, nor that I'll be silent on homosexuality or pro-life issues. t is the intolerant Left that doesn't know how to balance the two, as their meltdown following the election is proving.

Amen.

[annyokie]

Condi is never married and loves football. I guess she is gay as well? /sarcasm

[Howlin]

...then people run around saying the nominated AG is not fit to serve because he may be pro-Life, now a rumor campaign about Mehlman's sexuality.

And those are the people who say they are on OUR side.

I dread to think what will be said about Condi.

[Howlin]

Bump.

This is the way we complain that the MSM gets rumors into the news cycle; "We don't believe it, but SOME people are saying it."

It sucks.

[brooklyn dave]

Totally in agreement. What is this rant trying to prove? If the guy is gay so what. I can understand why many gay and lesbian Republicans stay quiet (and I mean tight lipped quiet, not professionally quiet). They'll get hounded by the wackos in the party that want to immolate them (and believe me Blanche, there are those people in the party)and then they would have to deal with the fury of the gay activists who believe every gay person has to be a crusader for the lifestyle. Talk about beig between a rock and a hard place. (NO puns intended)

[faithincowboys]

Amen. This is a non-issue.

[Howlin]

It does make one wonder why it was linked to a gay site in the first place.

[tanknetter]

Here's one possible reason it may be relevant - because if he is, expect the biggest smear campaign since Clarence Thomas was named to the SCt. Remember, the Dems love gays, until they don't parrot the party line. If there's any hint of this about Mehlman, the Dems will engage in an enthusiastically hypocritical orgy of gay bashing. Tolerance? Don't count on it.

BINGO! In fact this whispering campaign is probably part of the effort.

Mehlman is a successful Republican leader and is in line to be the next RNC Chairman ... and is therefore a threat to the Democrats. Whether he's gay or not, it's still in the interest of the Democratic Party to damage him politically and to undermine his credibility and authority.

What we're really seeing is a replay of what the Dems tried when John Edwards and John Kerry both raised Mary Cheney's lesbianism during the debates, and Liz Edwards followed by claiming that Lynn Cheney was "ashamed" of her gay daughter: deliberatly exploit the homosexuality of a prominant Republican as bait and a wedge to drive between the Republican Administration and Conservatives.

We didn't fall for it then, lets not fall for it now. Gay or not, Mehlman's personal life is NOT fodder for partisan politics.

[Carolinamom]

In the absence of ANY evidence, you could have chosen not to pass along this rumor on a public site. Pity.

[Gabz]

Totally agree. I've heard this same rumor many times regarding Condi. Does it matter?

Me, too....but I don't care, never did, never will.

Rumors of gay phone sex solicitation caused my (R)congressman to drop out of his re-election bid. Some group was going to out him - not because he is gay (no one really knows) but because he supported the ban on gay marriage.

If 37, male, and never been married is some hint of gayness..........I guess my husband is in trouble - he was 43 when we got married!

[Gabz]

When you are a guy and over thiry, everyone looks at you out of the corner of their eye. The questions is always there. Not fair but that is it.

While it's not fair - the same is said about women - I disagree with you that "the question" is always there.

The only question I ever had was "Is he available"?

[michigander]

Phallic symbol? ;-)

[BunnySlippers]

I personally don't care if he's gay. There are a lot of gay Republicans anyway. And not all gays think that marriage should extend to them.