Gays & Giuliani: Love, Hate or "Other"?
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Exact same news item, two very different headlines:
--Giuliani emerging as favorite of gays
--Giuliani's waffling worries Log Cabin GOP
Both headlines belie the text of their respective articles, but the first lede is far sloppier than the second: We are dealing not with gays here, but with gay Republicans — all 200 of them. So much for "winning hearts and minds" (or, as some very silly bloggers insist, "a million gays for Bush").
And this just days after Giuliani spit in the face of every gay (not to mention every believer in federalism, equal protection and basic human dignity). Did he offer an apology or a Romney-style "clarification" for his opposition to the New Hampshire civil union measure? Did the LCR demand one upon pain of un-inviting him?
(Not to mention Cardinal Giuliani's bizarre recent pronouncement that Saddam Hussein is indeed burning in Hell. Do you think he was directing that very un-Rudy remark to gays, or to some other constituency?)
When self-loathing gay Republicans prostrate themselves to GOP politicians, they are not "putting a face on the issue" or whatever other gobbledygook rationalizations they offer. Exactly the opposite: the only message the puny turnout and egoless posture that LCR sends to Giuliani, or any other Republican politician, is: "Gee, I really can shit all over them..."
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"It would be okay to repeal it," he said. "It would be okay also if a strict constructionist viewed it as precedent."
Two hasty stitches:
--"Strict constructionist" is meaningless blather except in one context: code words to the radical social conservative base for a judge who has decided, in advance of any actual case, to overturn Roe. A "strict constructionist who respects precedent" is an insolent contradiction in terms. And "Giuliani the Politician" knows this full well.
--"Okay if you do; okay if you don't..." This is "leadership" or "acting like a president"?
--Giuliani emerging as favorite of gays
--Giuliani's waffling worries Log Cabin GOP
Both headlines belie the text of their respective articles, but the first lede is far sloppier than the second: We are dealing not with gays here, but with gay Republicans — all 200 of them. So much for "winning hearts and minds" (or, as some very silly bloggers insist, "a million gays for Bush").
And this just days after Giuliani spit in the face of every gay (not to mention every believer in federalism, equal protection and basic human dignity). Did he offer an apology or a Romney-style "clarification" for his opposition to the New Hampshire civil union measure? Did the LCR demand one upon pain of un-inviting him?
(Not to mention Cardinal Giuliani's bizarre recent pronouncement that Saddam Hussein is indeed burning in Hell. Do you think he was directing that very un-Rudy remark to gays, or to some other constituency?)
When self-loathing gay Republicans prostrate themselves to GOP politicians, they are not "putting a face on the issue" or whatever other gobbledygook rationalizations they offer. Exactly the opposite: the only message the puny turnout and egoless posture that LCR sends to Giuliani, or any other Republican politician, is: "Gee, I really can shit all over them..."
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"It would be okay to repeal it," he said. "It would be okay also if a strict constructionist viewed it as precedent."
Two hasty stitches:
--"Strict constructionist" is meaningless blather except in one context: code words to the radical social conservative base for a judge who has decided, in advance of any actual case, to overturn Roe. A "strict constructionist who respects precedent" is an insolent contradiction in terms. And "Giuliani the Politician" knows this full well.
--"Okay if you do; okay if you don't..." This is "leadership" or "acting like a president"?
Related Posts (on one page):
- More on Giuliani's Adultery
- Religious "Accounting" for Thee But Not For Me?
- PSA: Ask a Republican Candidate a Question
- Gays & Giuliani: Love, Hate or "Other"?
- Giuliani Sells Soul by Selling Out Gays
Posted by Kip on
5 May 2007
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