Ken Mehlman, who headed the Republican National Committee between 2005 and 2007, has come out in an interview with the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder, according to the Huffington Post.
How many of these Republicans have come out of the closet, just in the past few years?
In the case of Mehlman, he was at the helm of the GOP while the party attacked gay rights and began to heartily oppose gay marriage. And I don’t recall him opposing Prop. 8, in 2008, even though he now appears to be a gay marriage supporter.
How can anyone be gay, or Latino for that matter, and be a registered Republican?
Gays are no threat to this country. But Republicans? They just can’t get out of their own way…
“How can anyone be gay, or Latino for that matter, and be a registered Republican?”
Because for some gays, those issues are just ONE thing! One issue among a whole slew of issues that different people are passionate about. It’s really more about being conservative than being a Republican. Are you saying one issue should define a person’s politics? If one is politically active, and they consider themselves conservative, is not the Republican party, at this point in history, the party such a person would be naturally drawn to…for the most part?
Ask Andrew Sullivan how he can be gay and be a conservative. You’ll get a much more subtle, thoughtful answer to the simplistic question you pose.
Ah – but Sully, while very old-school conservative, sure ain’t Republican any more!
Right. But Melman is politically active, as are many other gay conservatives. They certainly aren’t going to find a comfortable home for the overwhelming majority of their views in the Democratic or Libertarian parties.
Ah, comfort…what’s it like.
I’m only uneasily comfortable in the Democratic Party. Right now I’m working on a post dressing down Solorio for dancing to the Prison Guard Union’s tune one too many times.
Well, there are conservatives and there are conservatives. Sullivan is a thoughtful gay conservative, more of the type that actually believes that the government should stay out of your personal life. As for other gays being Republican, it apparently comes down to the fact that they think they’ll make more money while supporting people who hate them, and would like to see them burned at the stake if possible. That takes some major denial, man.
“I’m only uneasily comfortable in the Democratic Party.”
As are many conservatives in the Republican Party.
Karl Roves Dad invented the Cock Ring (or something like it).
“Those rules are’nt for us honey, just those blackies and brownies” – GHB in explaining that Lee Atwater had just sprung daughter Dorthy’s husband from a police holding tank after being caught with a bag of weed.
Gee that was’nt obvious!
Whats next Frank Mickediet and Matt Cunningham?
Ask Andrew Sullivan how he can be gay and be a conservative.
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Did you mean Alan Mansoor?
i agree, why jesus lets this go on is concerning
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