Posted on 05/04/2012 8:35:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Mitt Romney’s campaign was weathering a minor controversy by week’s end related to the resignation of a foreign policy aide who was gay, forcing the campaign to deny it had caved to fringe social conservatives who’d pressured Romney to fire the aide.
“We wanted him to stay with our team. He's a very accomplished spokesperson, and we select people not based upon their ethnicity or sexual preference or gender, but their capability,” Romney said Friday on Fox News of the aide, Richard Grenell, who stepped down from the Romney campaign on Tuesday.
Grenell was hired to act as Romney's spokesman on foreign policy and was, in fact, a veteran Republican aide, having served as U.N. Ambassador John Bolton's spokesman. He’d also built up a reputation over time for being especially combative with reporters.
But his resignation, announced on Tuesday after just two short weeks with the Romney campaign, has become ensnared by gay rights politics. In a statement Tuesday to the Washington Post, Grenell suggested that his sexual orientation had prompted social conservatives to sructinize the Romney campaign. In order to avoid causing a headache for his employer, Grenell said he had decided to step down, despite never having begun in earnest. …
“I don't think this has unfolded the way [the Romney campaign] wanted it to unfold. But I also think the initial reaction and initial assumptions people made weren't particularly surprising,” said Liz Mair, a Republican strategist who serves on the board of GOProud, a Republican group that advocates for gay rights.
She suggested that even if the Romney campaign hadn’t parted ways with Grenell because of his sexuality, the haphazard way in which the former Massachusetts governor had previously courted conservatives fed into a storyline that the Romney campaign caved to social conservatives. …
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Sounds like the campaign had some sensible folks left, and who told this gay-married sodomite that the handwriting was on the wall.
I can’t see Mitt having given him an ultimatum. Mitt just doesn’t DO things like that.
Mitt has a troublesome soft spot for gays. If the “good Mormon” Mitt wants polygamy to get an official nod, he ought to just campaign for THAT and leave gays out of it.
sodomites do nothing but cause trouble in our society. when will Amercia wake up and refuse to give in to these deviants?
sodomites do nothing but cause trouble in our society. when will Amercia wake up and refuse to give in to these deviants?
“I want to thank Governor Romney for his belief in me and my abilities and his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team,” he told the Post.
Someone who is willing to sacrifice their own interests for the good of the team is someone I would rather have kept aboard, unless he was some flaming queen, which, by the article, does not seem to have been the case.
Oh good. Before we set sail let’s drop an extra anchor, and a couple of anvil’s while we are at it. Full speed ahead Campaign 2012!
Romnutz is considered the governmental “Father of Queer Marriage”.
“If the “good Mormon” Mitt wants polygamy to get an official nod, he ought to just campaign for THAT and leave gays out of it.”
I think you almost nailed it. Legalizing homosexual marriage is just a next step towards legalizing polygamous marriage. If gays can get married, then why not polygamists be allowed to do the same (the logic goes).
IMHO Unbelievable. He was an aide, a foreign policy aide. What is it with these people to grant such importance to these shit positions; just another prissy dude parading about.
Also, why pass by 10 straight possible foreign aide types and select a drama queen for a nothing job.
Didn’t the LDS take limitless grief a few years ago for being the largest backer of the anti=gay marriage proposition in CA?
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