Posted on 06/25/2008 8:27:10 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Unconfirmed as yet by the campaign, but the LCRs say it’s so:
A source with close ties to the Log Cabin Board of Directors provided information about the meeting to GayPatriot earlier this week. This source disclosed that the Log Cabin meeting was not reflected on Senator McCain’s published schedule in advance and the meeting…
Log Cabin President Patrick Sammon confirmed the meeting with Senator McCain in email correspondence with GayPatriot earlier today…
Based on published news reports, the meeting with Senator McCain would be the first between any national-level gay Republicans and a Republican Presidental nominee since “The Texas 12″ met with then-Governor George W. Bush in 2000.
One of Maverick’s more appealing mavericky qualities during the campaign has been his attempt to expand the tent by reaching out to minority voters. The rift’s not going to be healed anytime soon and he surely realizes it, but this gets us a tiny bit closer to healing it eventually. It’s commendable that he’s willing to devote resources to the task. What’s especially impressive — or insane, from the strict Machiavellian point of view — is that meeting with the LCRs could actually cost him votes among the most strident members of a social conservative base that’s not real keen on him to begin with and even less so after he dumped Hagee and Parsley. Surely there aren’t so many gay Republicans and independents that winning them over will offset the potential loss in votes among evangelicals, so what’s McCain’s game here? Or is there no game at all and he’s simply acting out of decency towards a GOP constituency?
McLame is shaking down fools for campaign cash since he’s getting the big zero from the grass roots. Cash n Kerry Juan McAmnesty.
Good for McCain. Homosexuality is wrong. However, all people are equally love by Christ. Love the sinner and hate the sin.
What BS is he telling them. What fools conservatives are to ever allow these POS to become leaders of this ONCE great nation.
Whether this is a winning plan is a whole different question.
Gotta give him credit for trying.
“Or is there no game at all and he’s simply acting out of decency towards a GOP constituency?”
I think McCain is acting out of decency.
The LCR’s are admirable in that they put national security and freedom over their personal issues. I am glad McCain is reaching out here.
Why not? It’s not like he’s Billy Graham. /s
Frankly, I have no trouble with this. I don’t care what two consenting adults do in their bedroom. My problem is with the leftist anti-family “homosexual agenda.” And the Log Cabin Republicans by and large oppose that agenda, too.
I agree with you and applaud you for being brave and standing above the crowd....it’s not for us to judge and I also applaud McCain on this...
I live in a neighborhood with a huge gay popoulation.
I Don’t agree with lifestyle but there are many I speak with who are republicans and a few who are dems who can’t vote for Obama and voting McCain.
there are also gays I have talked with who also don’t agree with the recent marriage decision here in Calif.
Also know several who are gay and in the military.
Appeasement never wins. These perverts offer nothing to the GOP or McCain. Just one more click on the path to my non-vote in this election.
Well said.
Also know several who are gay and in the military.
...and your point is?
A wild guess: That you live around gays and know a lot of homosexuals?
If the alternative were Clinton (either), Kerry, Gore, or even Carter, then I’d sit this one out. We would survive them. Problem is the alternative is Obama, the dims answer to Chavez and Imadinnerjacket. Bad as McCain is, we CANNOT let that happen.
The associations with the Log Cabin Republicans or his disassociation with Parley and Hagee mean little if anything to me. He lost my vote because of his associations within the snakepit of treachery known as the United States Senate. He sleeps with Teddy Kennedy as in McCain-Kennedy.
We lost control of the House and Senate in ‘06 thanks to Foley: don’t think it can’t happen again.
The real irony is that if McCain wins, he’ll be left of Clinton (either) but portrayed by the MSM as right of Reagan...
Believe in redemption. Hate the sin, not the sinner. Whether you believe it or not, Christ loves these people(gays) as much as he loves you. Reaching out to them is extremely Christ-like. Check who Christ spent his time with.
If you are an atheist or pagan, well never mind.
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