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The Coming (Verbal) Assault On Mayor Pete And… The “Gay Question”
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| 11/20/2019
| Jazz Shaw
Posted on 11/20/2019 8:52:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Were coming up fast on the next Democratic primary debate and theres been a major shift in the pole positions of this race. In just the past week, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has pulled into a double-digit lead in not only Iowa but New Hampshire as well. This is going to put him in an unaccustomed spot when the candidates take the stage since hes going to have a huge target on his back.
The other candidates will have to be careful how they go after Buttigieg, however. The same trap they normally set for Republicans will be ready to bite them in the backsides if they come after him too harshly. Any time a conservative criticizes the policies of a female candidate they are labeled as a misogynist. If they challenge the positions of an African-American or Hispanic candidate they are accused of racism. But now, if Biden, Warren or Sanders come after Mayor Pete too roughly theyll be open to charges of homophobia. Hey, liberals
you baked this particular cake. Now you get to eat a slice.
But its precisely the issue of Buttigiegs sexual orientation thats lurking in the background. Will any of the other candidates dare to bring it up? Thats unlikely in the extreme, but the political press has already been digging into it. Over at Politico, theyve got a report about a town hall where somebody already raised the issue with the candidate.
On a cold night in a small town, a man had a question for Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay candidate with a serious shot at the American presidency. How, he wanted to know, would he deal with leaders of foreign countries where its still illegal to be gay? Buttigieg, dressed as he almost always is, in brown shoes and blue slacks and a plain white shirt with the sleeves rolled up, stood in the center of a stage surrounded by more than a thousand people who had packed into the gymnasium of the high school. Buttigieg gripped the hand-held mic and took a few steps forward.
Sooooo, he said, drawing out the syllable and the suspense, theyre going to have to get used to it.
That specific question is rather silly. What foreign leaders in countries where homosexuality is still banned or disparaged think about the American Presidents sexual orientation is a moot point. Nobody is going to arrest the President of the United States on a foreign trip over something like that. Its similar to when female American diplomats have traveled to Muslim nations where headscarves are required. Many have refused to honor the custom and nothing came of it.
But that doesnt mean that the gay question is entirely settled back home. We would be expressing willful ignorance if we pretended not to know that some voters in America arent as woke on the subject as you might wish to believe, and that includes many in the base of the Democratic Party. Politico very recently reported on a poll showing that a majority of people say they are personally open to a gay or lesbian president, but 58 percent of Republicans, 32 percent of independents and 22 percent of Democrats say they arent ready for that sort of result.
Even more to the point, this same Morning Consult poll showed a shift when people were asked if their neighbors were ready for a gay couple in the White House. Barely a quarter said they were, while just shy of half said their neighbors either definitely or probably werent ready. This common practice among polling organizations is often very useful. Many voters will feel uncomfortable verbally expressing what they deem to be an unpopular opinion, such as harboring feelings of racism, sexism or bias against gays. But when asked if their neighbors might feel that way, their true feelings begin to show through.
As far as the woke Democrats go, theyre going to have to wrestle with a tough issue. Everyone is ready for a hypothetical gay president. But how many of them are ready for a flesh and blood, all too real gay president and the first First Dude? Thats a question the Buttigieg campaign will need to be ready to answer, assuming anyone actually asks them.
On a related topic dealing with the racial issue, weve already covered repeatedly the fact that Buttigieg has attracted basically zero support from black Democratic primary voters. Even if he manages to somehow win the nomination on the strength of only his white supporters, will he be able to excite black voters in the general election and drive minority turnout the way Barack Obama did and Hillary Clinton didnt? And Clinton at least had modest support in the African-American community. Buttigieg appears to have essentially none. Can he win a general election under those conditions? And will any of his opponents at this debate dare to ask him that? Stay tuned.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020demprimary; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; petebuttigieg
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To: SeekAndFind
Sodomites have no place in the White House.
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posted on
11/20/2019 11:12:23 AM PST
by
Walrus
("I can't spare this (Trump). He fights.")
To: Walrus
Sodomites have no place in the White House.
Well, a bit late for that...(can you say Obozo, yes, I thought you could...)
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posted on
11/20/2019 11:20:58 AM PST
by
cgbg
(The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
To: SeekAndFind
Jazz is too funny. Do I need to call out all the clever allusions? Lets start with major shift in the pole positions. Great stuff
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
11/20/2019 11:49:11 AM PST
by
353FMG
To: SeekAndFind
He’s a baby-murdering, war-seeking CIA plant fag. The worst of them all.
To: SeekAndFind
Who wants to expose their children to this? Only the depraved or insane.
To: Trumpisourlastchance
RE: Who wants to expose their children to this? Only the depraved or insane.
Let’s ask ourselves then, why is Pete Buttigieg leading the DEMOCRAT’S polls in Iowa? Why is he raising so much money?
The most viable conclusion is this -— those Iowan Democrats who view him favorably are either depraved, insane or ignorant.
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posted on
11/20/2019 12:34:40 PM PST
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it will)
To: RatRipper
“They cast around the term homophobic.Phobic implies fear.”
One could argue that it is the homosexuals themselves who are homophobic - since they insist on being called “gay”, and ironically, they are anything BUT gay.
To: SeekAndFind
He is just sickening! Who would vote for that?
To: SeekAndFind
Mayor Pete is the “wife” in this bizarre relationship...
70
posted on
11/20/2019 5:15:10 PM PST
by
terycarl
(Notre Dame was God's way of pointing out that France has fallen from His favor....)
To: terycarl
Mayor Pete is the wife in this bizarre relationship...Really? I thought he was the sheep.
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:16:42 PM PST
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: SeekAndFind
Buttigieg’s campaign posters in gay neighborhoods have a picture of the back of his head.
To: Pining_4_TX; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal
As it was in the Days of Lot.....
Now the Lord didn’t specify all that stuff, but this worldwide madness is definitely........worldwide.
When I went looking for the base (no pun intended there) images, it was rather a bummer and how much this is happening all around the world. Truly, an actual sign of the times.
I’m not surprised so much at those marching, because I expect that from them, it’s cheering fools in the streets and the politicians that feel bound to cater to it. Along with companies that do the same.
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:45:06 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
It’d be pretty fitting for an apostate America in it’s very last hours to be led by a Sodomite president as it meets it’s long awaited demise.
Much like Sodom. Much like Gomorrah. Even Rome.
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:47:35 PM PST
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
75
posted on
11/20/2019 7:06:10 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
It’s amazing how many people are fine with this abomination all in the name of tolerance. As Chesterton said, “Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”
Also, people are afraid of public opinion and the leftist mobs.
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posted on
11/21/2019 9:33:30 AM PST
by
Pining_4_TX
("Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken)
To: Pining_4_TX
Yes. Bronco Bama got it so embedded in our culture and workplace and now people are afraid for their livelihood.
It’s all going to happen just as prophesied.
When he said “fundamentally change America” the fools bought it hook, line and sinker.
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posted on
11/21/2019 9:39:17 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal; null and void; metmom; Mom MD; WalterSkinner; Texas Fossil; melsec; ..
[fundamentally change America]
fundamentally TRANSform America (cough)
I was thinking of “Hope and Change”.
Proverbs 24:21-22 New King James Version (NKJV)
21 My son, fear the Lord and the king;
#######Do not associate with those given to change;#######
22 For their calamity will rise suddenly,
And who knows the ruin those two can bring?
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posted on
11/21/2019 9:47:26 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
Like I said, if this fruit married to a “man”, i’m taking my Bible and TONS of Jack Daniels (not the most sensible combination i know) and locking myself in the basement for four years.
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posted on
11/21/2019 9:50:04 AM PST
by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
To: dp0622
You want to stay sober FRiend ... :)
They certainly are a soul-killing lot, the Leftists. But they lose in the end. But it gives me a chance to throw out a few more verses for ya (well, two). FWIW
Luke 21:34-36 King James Version (KJV)
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Mark 4:19 King James Version (KJV)
19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
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posted on
11/21/2019 8:28:46 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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