Posted on 10/08/2006 4:26:23 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
In times past, no public figure would want to be associated with dirty political tricks. Nowadays, however, Lawrence O'Donnell is enthusiastically flaunting the fact that the Democrats have stooped to the sleazy tactic of outing gays as a campaign tactic. The McLaughlin Group panelist and former producer of The West Wing has no qualms about his party engaging in sleaze as he pointed out in his October 5 Blog in The Huffington Post:
The LA Times has outed Kirk Fordham today. He will not be the last closeted gay Republican outed by this scandal.
So is this outing of Republican gays based on some important moral principle? Not according to O'Donnell. It is strictly a sleazy campaign tactic that is supposed to keep Evangelical Republicans from supporting their party at the polls this November as O'Donnell readily admits:
The Republican base--the Evangelical get-out-the-vote troops--are going to be devastated when they discover how many closeted gay Republicans were involved in policing Mark Foley in the House of Representatives.
As Peter Mulhern wrote in Real Clear Politics about the cynical Democrat tactic of trying to drive a wedge between Evangelicals and Republicans:
Democrats didn't keep Mark Foley's sins on ice and serve them up shortly before an election to make Dennis Hastert look negligent. They did it to drive a wedge between the GOP and its evangelical supporters by publicizing the fact that the Republican leadership in Congress gave the benefit of a substantial doubt to a known homosexual.
If O'Donnell were writing a West Wing episode in which one of the parties were engaging in outing gays for political advantage, you can bet he would make sure it would have been the EVIL Republicans who were doing the outing. However, in real life, O'Donnell is more than happy to enthusiastically support this dirty campaign tactic if it helps the Democrats at the polls. One can only imagine the media outrage if a prominent Republican had written approvingly about outing gay Democrats for political advantage. In the case of O'Donnell the only sounds coming from the MSM about this new Democrat tactic. other than the L.A. Times performing the outings for the benefit of the Democrats, are the chirping of crickets.
A sampling of responses to O'Donnell's promotion of dirty politics as a campaign strategy can be seen at the DUmmie FUnnies.
I pity you. Thank God I have Sensenbrenner.
All Democrats are degenerates in some fashion.
When one learns that they are a member of the Democrat Party one knows that they have a severe character defect.
And as for the msm, they are the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, nothing more.
mad..a real conservative doesn't stand a chance in my area of NJ, although we do have a good one in Chris Smith in the House.
I am beginning to think that Kean knows the conservatives will vote for him even if he says these outrageous things. He is going after the left wingers with these comments.
How many would vote their republican congressman out of office if they found out the representative was gay?
This is what this "scandal" is all about!
I don't think there are many voters that have any doubts about how many gays there are in the Democratic party.
In fact, I would guess, giving their philosophy, they are loaded with gays.
What I don't understand is why the gay Republicans don't retaliate by outting the gay Democrats. They must know who they are.
And vote for an even bigger, more flagrant pervert from the Democratic party?
People see the disingenuousness of this tactic. It will backfire big time.
I wonder if this is what that slimeball from Hustler was threatening to release if the GOP convicted Clinton during the impeachment trial.
So the lesson Democrat learned in 2004 was "votes don't like homosexuals."
So the Democrats are now going to out homosexuals that are republicans, but not democrat homosexuals......
Cleaning out the perverts from the republican party, keeping the perverts in the democrat party
i see. Clean the other person's house in order to prove it is messy. But leave your house a mess.
Makes sense from the "cut and run" is not surrender party.
Take a gander at my bolded in your response, a complete circular argument, then take the advice of your provided quote, "it is far better to be thought a fool than to open one's motuh and remove all doubt!". Good grief, you just can't make this stuff up. Blackbird.
bump
If you haven't seen it...you must to understand this story.
Do you think the FBI files that Clinton stole supplied any of the info on these people? After all, if they identify someone who is not really gay, there is a chance for a lawsuit.
This is dirty,it's a disgraceful breach of privacy.It's as bad as outing a persons medical conditions. I have no problem with homosexuals who keep their bedroom in their bedroom.
I'm surprised that the democratic gays haven't stepped up in outrage of this rape of the 'outted' gays by their party.And that is what this is, a total invasion and sexual attack of a person for the gain of others.
Personally this is the foulest thing I've ever seen in the name of politics. I gotta admit I was pretty disenchanted with the Republican party during Bush's amnesty plan for illegals and was thinking very hard of not showing up at the polls, but after seeing this disgusting display you couldn't keep me away with 2 broken legs.
I only hope our own party will never stoop to sacrificing the private life of adults commiting no crime for political gain.
When I saw Hastert get up there to defend himself, he had Gay David Dreier (R- CA) with him.
Stay tuned. Pressure has a way of making closet doors pop open.
looks like all the markings of "hate crime" IMHO
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