Posted on 08/25/2010 3:58:16 PM PDT by LonelyCon
Ken Mehlman, President Bush's campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay.
Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter's questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would arise about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group that supported the legal challenge to California's ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8.
"It's taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life," said Mehlman, now an executive vice-president with the New York City-based private equity firm, KKR. "Everybody has their own path to travel, their own journey, and for me, over the past few months, I've told my family, friends, former colleagues, and current colleagues, and they've been wonderful and supportive. The process has been something that's made me a happier and better person. It's something I wish I had done years ago."
Privately, in off-the-record conversations with this reporter over the years, Mehlman voiced support for civil unions and told of how, in private discussions with senior Republican officials, he beat back efforts to attack same-sex marriage. He insisted, too, that President Bush "was no homophobe." He often wondered why gay voters never formed common cause with Republican opponents of Islamic jihad, which he called "the greatest anti-gay force in the world right now."
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Never saw it coming.
Why is it so many guys are queer?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I don't have a clue...but most are made by heterosexuals.
Of course one must talk about it endlessly, write books, do movies, have a quota of at least one on each TV show....
After Hollywood gets bored of this latest fetish, what will be next?
Yikes!
Kelly McGillis just announced she is a Homo,hello she made her money and lied to us the whole time.
"I think that was an ongoing process from the time I was probably 12. It was a long arduous journey for me," she told the publication. "I had a lot of bad things happen to me that made me think God was punishing me for being gay. Life is a freaking journey about coming to terms with who and what you are."Gosh Kelly just found out too.:)
Well she did have to do a love scene with that little shrimp Tom Cruise. That could make anyone question themselves.
I just thought we were all Muslim now. I can’t keep up with all the life changes.
Not if he’s going to promote the homosexual agenda, which is he is. So he is most assuredly not better.
Someone should ask him what he thinks of the GOProud’s “all gay all the time” agenda.
And while they’re asking him questions, what he thinks of “festivals” like the Folsom Street Fair.
True :)
Witness-Harrison was a good actor here.:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxZVTQK2YTo&feature=related
WHY do these people feel the need to announce their SEX LIFE preferences? WHY? I’m not interested in their preversion. I don’t find that acceptable. o back in the closet and fiddle with your same sex friends.
GWB was too trusting. He is old school. He kept allot of Clinton people too who just screwed him silly, figuratively speaking. GWB wanted to believe others were honorable and able to put aside partisan politics. He was WRONG!
Notice that the guy said “Bush is not a homophobe”.
Puke.
Think about it. I'd bet he was dumped off at some day care center. ANYTHING goes on there. There are no cameras in the bathroom. It's pedophile heaven. If you are a pedophile, where’d you like to work? A public school or maybe a pres school - it will depend on your age preference. I don't understand it but those ABUSED typically abuse others in the same way.
Color me not interested. The self-importance of these people is sickening.
OK, Ken, I showed you mine, now let's see your limp wrist.
Bush probably didn’t have a clue he was a homo.
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