Posted on 10/07/2014 10:49:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, is making good on his vow to support gay GOP candidates in the name of inclusivity this week when he is expected to stump for openly gay Republican candidates Carl Demaio of California and Richard Tisei in Massachusetts.
A report in The Hill says Boehner is expected to raise cash for both candidates despite opposition from conservative groups such as the Family Research Council in a bid to expand the 17-seat majority of Republicans in Congress.
The Hill noted that Family Research Council and the National Organization for Marriage were among conservative organizations who sent a letter to Boehner, National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Greg Walden (Ore.) and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) protesting the support for DeMaio, Tisei, and Senate hopeful Monica Wehby of Oregon who is a supporter of abortion and gay marriage.
"Carl DeMaio, Richard Tisei and Monica Wehby are antithetical to the Republican platform," the group of conservatives reportedly wrote. "Mr. DeMaio supports and aggressively advocates for the redefinition of marriage, and welcomed the judicial activism of the federal courts which stripped the people of California of their votes in support of maintaining marriage as the union of one man and one woman."
In a telephone interview with The Hill, DeMaio said he was "disappointed" with the "extreme far right" groups.
"I'm disappointed but not terribly surprised that some extreme far right groups would rather lose elections than win elections, and have been very destructive for so many years within the Republican Party," said DeMaio.
"I'm glad so many people are finally realizing that and standing up to that, saying we may not agree on all issues but we agree on the vast majority of issues," he noted.
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Ah, what memories. Just thinking back to GOP conventions and GOP leaders in which “family values” used to be a cornerstone.
Boehner and the whole current incarnation of the GOP makes me want to vomit. They are just as degenerate nowadays as the Dems. Worthless, lying bastards. I hope they all choke to death.
Let’s see the RINO lovers in forum defend this.
I hope this turncoat, phony Republican gets thrown out of his Speaker’s job. He’s a whole-hearted disgrace.
didn’t even wait until the corpse is cold.
YOu know what they’ll do. They will just stamp their foor and demand you vote for a Republican or else YOU are responsible for Obama, Reid, Hillary or any other democrat that might win.
But just because a liberal might have an (R) after his name is no reason to vote for them.
Typical for this RINO. Boehner is a whimp and must be replaced by a true conservative and let’s cut out all this crap and bring America back to its’ leadership role and financial stability, ( not to mention a real border, a true health care system that is truly superior to what is coming to fruition shortly)
W T F?!?
What a pile of steaming horse $hit...does boner even know where these people stand on defense, fiscal issues, or borders. Or, just because they play butt darts, boner is going to support them.
I’m pretty sure boner could fall into a bucket of boobs and he would come up sucking his own thumb....my God what a loser.
Yeah, that is true.
Been watching the RINO pushers the past couple months.
Seems they have it in their tiny brains that we should vote for liberals or else the liberals will win.
Obama himself beleived as the conservatives up until just a couple of years ago. Lying homos. Yeah, I said it.
This is the CORE issue.
Not the fact they are homo. I think most Republicans can tolerate a homo in office.
But very, very few will tolerate a "Gay Rights Activist".
So between the Rebuplican light candidates, and the Establishment Repbubs....we dont vote for either and the dems
keep on with the destruction of our country...Is that where we stand?? So they can send our Military to fight Contagious
Diseases in Africa....Is that right? Wait til people see the real affect of Obamacare...when it affects their child or their parents or themselves...is that when they realise something is wrong?
The biggest strumpet in Washington - and that says a lot.
Boner has turned into just as big an embarassment as Biden, but to different groups of people.
“keep on with the destruction of our country...Is that where we stand??”
Vote for the squishy liberal republican, get more of the same.
Only an idiot rewards the squishies with their vote.
After all, obviously the GOPe has a MANDATE to govern as squishies, they WON didn’t they?
/ sarc
Did anyone really believe that Boehner believed anything, save his own personal peace and affluence? The orange-man is a professional stunt man, always trying to create the optics of drama and always falling, crashing and inconsequential in the end. But the pay is good!
Cow Palace 1956.
Boehner and McConnell are not conservatives, they are the enemy too
There are, shockingly, people who do believe Boehner.
Myself I don’t care if a candidate is gay if he supports tax cuts, closed borders, American jobs, gun rights. If he is gay, I don’t care...
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