GOP senators fight over failure (Graham, Lott, RINOs slam DeMint as selfish "loser" but praise Kirk)

DeMint is in the US Senate, he would have to be a congressman to be the Speaker

Right. I was a little off my game last night. There's just too much to be done and I don't see a lot of political courage in the Republican leadership. People are angry and should stay angry until this country is fixed.

MUTV = Make Up The Vote

I have to give it to you, that you gents really called that one -- it does look like Dirty Harry and his SEIU pals rigged the vote. Major Congressional investigation => impeachment, anyone?

RMSP nor RMPS(my typo) = Republican Main Street Partnerhsip (just one of many Rino sites, this one has soros connections)

I wasn't aware of that group; they're about as "Main Street" as Saks' Fifth Avenue, by your description of them; but then deception is part of Soros's stock in trade, isn't it?

Thanks for the explanation, gents.

Being a South Carolina Republican is tough these days....then you remember Lindsay Graham and want to puke.

If you guys are right about Graham's being a closeted gay, then this is a case study in the susceptibility of closeted people to compromise by pressure merchants.

If he were "out" and people elected him anyway, then the ability to force him to depart from his constituents' agenda would be less. But it is the nature of homosexuality always to have some detail of personal deportment that is ticklish or confidential, and so open to compromise.

Example: Andrew Sullivan, the gay opinionator who calls himself "conservative", has been subject to a vendetta by other gays for whom he is not liberal enough; and so they (led by Michelangelo Signorile of The Village Voice and other journals and Hollywood historian and litterator/polemicist David Ehrenstein) pursued Sullivan until they found him soliciting "bareback" (unprotected) sexual trysts online, and told everyone they knew about it, damning Sullivan as a hypocrite (favorite 'RatLeftist hobby) for practicing what he had preached against.

As with Sullivan, so also then with Graham or any closeted gay: Ken Mehlman, for instance, lately chairman of the RNC, Texas governor Rick Perry, and Mark Foley, former GOP congressman, as well.

Yeah, it was all the scandal about five years ago -- HomoRat party activists were mounting demonstrations taunting Perry to "come out, we understand". The story was, he'd had affairs with a couple of his secretaries of state, who had offices next door to his. Caught in flagrante, he had to confess to his wife and "do a deal" with the Austin and Travis County gay community (with the Austin daily paper editors as dishonest deal-brokers, who are probably as queer as the New York Times's front-page editors, one of whom went public years ago with a statement that something like 70-75% of those editors are gay or bi) to hush it all up. His wife and he then made a public statement of denial and went into stonewall mode, unpursued by the press, the yellow press, TMZ, or anyone else. Which all by itself says, "guilty as charged -- and they're all in on it."

Meanwhile, gays are making huge strides in Texas politics (although a Harris County lesbian commissioner got washed away in Tuesday's Tea Party Tsunami) and in things like adoptions, where a Christian conservative woman employed by Children's Protective Services was fired instantly w/o recourse in 1997 for complaining publicly that Texas was allowing gays to adopt kids in violation of state law. That was when Bush was governor and Perry was lite governor.

Sometimes, you just ain't paranoid at all.

Rove ‘s encouragement of liberal policies with Pres. Bush.....

.....and of gay-friendly appointments behind the scenes.

Until DOMA came along and Bush had to fall into line and keep the Christian Coalition in the tent, Bush/Rove were very, very gay-friendly.

At the 2000 convention, even as Rove held hands with the Christian Coalition people at the convention, Bush was out having dinner with the Log Cabins, and Mary Matalin (advancing him there) was telling all the gays who'd listen that "single-sex marriage" was a slam-dunk for fairness and good family values. Oh, and that any other take on the issue was just "unfair", and that the GOP was very much against "unfairness".

It's documented, guys.

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