[edcoil]

"Copies of The List (see below)"

No list and none on link.

[100-Fold_Return]

Impossible, the one and only civil war is in Iraq. I know, I watch CNN./sar

[navyguy]

David Corn is a Socialist Worm and a pathalogical liar. His articles are suitable for nothing more than toilet paper.

[jrooney]

The modern day McCarthyism. This is the face of our enemy within our borders.

If stunts like this do not piss the base off, nothing will.

I would walk through a mine field covered in broken glass bare foot with a blind fold on to vote.

Any social conservative that stays home this election because we have gays in our party is a fool.

The direction Pelosi and Reid would take this country will hurt social conservatism much more than having some gays in the party!

[AntiGuv]

Where Corn says "(see below)" he's referring to his older post on 'The List' that's below this one on the main page of his blog. He is not referring to 'The List' itself which he says he won't publish. The older post then sends readers to blogactive.

[ElkGroveDan]

The list is there on one of the blogs. Just follow the links. It's on a left-side sidebar.

I'm not going to publish it here, but I read it.

[Antoninus]

The answer to this is easy. Just produce a list of Democrats who are secretly pro-life and send it around to every leftist group....

[Dems_R_Losers]

Well, this should be proof positive that a major part of the Democrats' campaign this year is dirty tricks to turn off the Republican base and make evangelical voters stay home. Revealing that George Allen is Jewish, now going after gay Republicans. It should be obvious they they are losing or they would not resort to such desperation tactics. They tried the same crap with the Bush DUI in 2000 and the fake TANG memos in 2004. Now, are we going to let them win this time or aren't we? I know I am going out this weekend for the first time in over a decade to walk precincts with my Republican Congressman. I am also going to write letters on his behalf to every newspaper in my area. What will you do?

[NeoCaveman]

We don't call it a Civil War, we call it the War of Homosexual Agression :^)

[Soul Seeker]

You know, I'm just going to hazard a guess as one of these social conservatives myself that wasn't going to vote for some Republicans that this attack on Christians and their leaders to suppress the Christian vote ain't going to go over too well.

[sweet_diane]

Where's the list of the adulterers? the tax cheats? the racist? And those with a violent nature?? Who has subscriptions to Playboy? High Times? Chicks With D****?? Who's pulled a Martha Stewart? or had a Lewinski at work??

And while we're at it... let's have 'em all pee in a cup for a lookie loo.

[MikeA]

"The inherent inconsistency of a coalition that shelters both gay loathing 'Christian' conservatives and conservative gays will soon suffer its final rupture."

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An open letter to David Corn:

Mr. Corn:

Once again you have shown you and other liberals just don't get the thinking and nuance behind conservative, much less Christian, thinking in this absurd and see-through attempt to suppress Republican turnout by announcing people in positions of power who are gay, as if the fact there are gays in the GOP is news to anyone.

Contrary to your simple-minded views, we do not "loathe" gays. We disapprove of the behavior as being violative of God's laws. I think few of us if any are shocked to learn that within the Republican ranks there are gays, both those actively living the lifestyle and those resisting the temptation to live God's laws instead.

None of us are going to turn on the GOP Mr. Corn merely because like the rest of society there are gays in our midst. I think most of us say the life they lead is between them and God and that it has nothing to do with why we support the GOP or how we see the GOP as being the best protector of our views on everything, not just values, from national security, to taxes to limiting the size of govt. (though the GOP has fallen down badly on the job on this later imperative) to protecting our constitution with judges who faithfully interpret the constitution, not re-write it to fit their ideology.

No Mr. Corn, your cheap and tawdry tactic will be seen by conservatives for what it is. It will not impact a single vote on election day, other than perhaps those who now vote Republican out of revulsion for the sleazy and hypocritical Democratic smears going on. And I bet just a few will be liberal gays.

There will be no civil war in the GOP. But there will be a reckoning you will need to have with your own conscience and the struggle you and your party will need to engage with your own moral sense, if there is even any moral sense left in your party, when you realize how you cheapened democracy. You will wake up the morning after the election is over and if you have even an ounce of conscience left, you'll feel scummy and dirty. And that's as it should be.

No Mr. Corn. We conservatives are not simpletons who are so besotten in bigotry and fear as you want to believe that we would turn on an entire party which promises so much more in terms of what's important to us than you Democrats could ever hope to offer because of the sins of a few of its members.

Apparently the liberal mindset tells you we view ourselves as perfect and that nothing less than perfection will due. No, that is not the case. We just ask for accountability is all, something that Democrats long ago put themselves beyond whether it was Bill Clinton, Gerry Studds, Barney Frank or Ted Kennedy (interesting the 3 latter all come from liberal Massachusetts isn't it?) We just see ourselves as people who are trying harder to do what's right, and don't try to cover up, make excuses or smear accusers when we've been found to have done wrong. That's your party's tactic Mr. Corn and we want nothing of it. But that doesn't mean we do not recognize our own shortcomings or that there are people who struggle with the same temptations common to man.

So we have gays in the GOP. This isn't news to anyone and it's even less impactful in terms of importance to any of us. The fact is, they do not run the party or its agenda nor force the party to alter marriage to allow same sex unions. Our party does not fight for special rights for gays in other ways, allowing them for example to advertise their sexuality in schools or in other jobs and then to be protected by the law from losing those jobs because they sought to impose their sexuality inappropriately.

So why would any of us lay back and not vote on election day because there are gays in our party and allow your party which is the custodian of the gay agenda, and most every other agenda we find repulsive, to take power and to move ahead those things we think endanger the nation, whether economic, cultural or security related??

You've drastically underestimated and miscalculated who we are Mr. Corn. And in so doing you've awoken a sleeping giant ready to knock you Democrats back on your heels on election day with the voter turn-out juggernaut that's coming your way. You have shown us the sleaziest and ugliest in human nature as it lusts for raw power and the blow-back from this is going to be massive. During a time of national danger, you Democrats hypocritically tried to change the subject from terrorism, national security, the need to be successful in Iraq and our continued prosperity to the private sexual lives of people many of us have never even heard of, and this after spending the late 1990s telling us how President Clinton's sexual escapades, not mere dirty talk or preference, in the Oval Office were "private matters" and "none of our business."

Mr. Corn, we're not buying it and we have long memories about your party's hypocrisy. You clearly don't know us, the complexity of our thinking or what you have helped to unleash on Democratic candidates in the coming election. And just a little of it may come from the gay community you liberals hypocritcally claim to champion, but which now are using their preferences as a weapon in this sexual McCarthyism you are playing with.

I suggest on November 8th you will wake up not only feeling cheap and low, but feeling you made a grave miscalculation and helped to unleash the whirlwind on your party's candidates. Good luck sleeping between now and then, and after. You will be spending years Ophellia-like trying to wash out this "Damned spot" Mr. Corn.

[marron]

The senders... seem to be hoping to set off a civil war within the GOP...

These guys really don't get it. It isn't going to happen.

If you agree with me on the issues, I'm not going to pry into your private life. If you agree with me on 80% of the issues, I'm going to argue with you about the 20% and still not pry into your private life.

Corn's point seems to be that there is something wrong with a pervert voting Republican. He can't imagine that, first, there are other issues, and second, that someone might not favor making his private perversion public policy.

For a guy like Corn, evidently, if you are a pervert you must by definition be a Democrat; if you are not, you are a traitor to your own kind.

There are times when you have to let Democrats make your case for you.

Still, if someone gets "outed" by the Democrats I see no reason to go into a frenzy. If you agree with me on the war, on the Constitution, on budget matters, that doesn't give you a pass on your moral character but I'm not going to kick you out of the party either. Just don't go "Foley" on me, and we'll be fine.

[dangerdoc]

I think that all Republican members of Congress should step out and announce that they are gay is solidarity with the gay men that the Democratic party are victomizing.

"I Senator Foghorne would like to standup for the persicuted minority and say that I stand with my brothers of all race creeds and sexual orientation. If the Democratic party wants to persicute gay man, then persicute me."

[6SJ7]

gay people of a non-Republican bent...

Must... resist... comment...

[PDR]

The only person talking about a list circulating is David Korn -- not to put too much emphasis on it but I believe he is being deceitful... HE is the one trying to start a Civil War in GOP ranks... after all, wasn't he the first one to peddle the Karl Rove leaked Valerie Plame's name in retaliation for her husband's New York Times op-ed???

[PajamaTruthMafia]

Bump

Post 47 has the blackmail list

[sweet_diane]

Recently in two different conversations with liberals I mentioned Log Cabin Republicans... neither had ever heard of the term. Both are strongly pro abortion so they identify as Dims, yet one was smart enough to realize Mr. Heinz-Kerry wasn't vote worthy and voted for Bush twice.

To say that each were shocked to find out there are actually gay Republicans would be an understatement. So, I guess the Dims really do think that all Republicans decide who to vote for by seeing who everyone sleeps with.

They were equally shocked to find out there were quite a few black Republicans..they thought Condi was the only one.

To be so open-minded, Dims are pretty narrow-sighted.

[Eva]

One list that is being circulated by Democrats is a really stupid list of minor Republicans who have been either arrested for or convicted (I can only assume that if the list doesn't say convicted, that the person was not convicted) of some crime. Arnold Swarzenegger is on the list, to give you some idea of how stupid it is. If that's the real list, it's no wonder the Democrats only want to hint at it because if anyone ever put together a similar list of Dems, it would look a whole lot worse.

[Eva]

The list that was posted here was called the Republican Neverland Ranch. If you're interested you can google it.