I just spent all morning watching CNN, MSNBC and all the other talking heads uncover the latest Conservative Republican sex scandal and I am mad as hell and (to paraphrase the old movie Network) I’m not going to take it anymore!!! And you shouldn’t either.
It’s time the cadre of anti-gay, “family-values” Republicans were branded for what they are. Let’s get a hot poker and brand their holier-than-thou asses with a giant H for hypocrisy.
The latest is a corker. Rep. Craig from Idaho pled guilty to approaching an undercover cop for sex in an airport men’s room. Apparently there have been rumors that Craig is gay for years, but that certainly didn’t stop him from pontificating against gay marriage, voting against hate-crimes and employment protection and otherwise shouting about those darling family values his party loves to hawk.
He says “ I am not gay, I have never been gay.” Define gay. If wanting sex with a man isn’t gay (or at least bisexual) what is? Does he mean he’s not a gay man if he doesn’t have gay-rights bumper stickers on his car, a to-die-for apartment and a long-term gay relationship? Or does he mean he’s not gay because he only asked for sex but didn’t get it? How much is enough already?
Is it enough when Family Values Senator Vitter gets caught with a prostitute on speed dial?
Is it enough when Family Values Congressman Mark Foley gets caught sending vastly inappropriate Instant Messages to underage boys?
Is it enough when a pro-life politician drives his daughter to town for an abortion. Don’t get excited. We haven’t found one of those yet, but you know it happens. I want Larry Flynt and Hustler to advertise for word of that kind of hypocrisy.
Do I think Democrats are angels with wings? Of course not. But they are mostly saavy enough not to preach one thing and do another. The bad boys (and probably girls, too) on the liberal side of the aisle know better than to grandstand with one hand while, um, doing something else with the other.
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Y'know, I honestly think that people like Craig are so pathological that they actually have split personalities. When Craig says, "I'm not gay," he thinks of that guy who gets in on in public toilets as a completely different human being.
A human being he hates and despises, by the way -- which explains a lot.
I take it back -- there is something more frustrating than jacked up air travel.
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