Let me just say that I’m going to vote for Harold Ford, no matter who the Republicans throw up against him. And I’m going to vote for him precisely because he comes from a family that is so outrageously corrupt that you actually ought to spell corrupt c-o-r-f-o-r-d-r-u-p-t and just let the Ford be silent when you say it.
But I’ve been watching the Republican Senate race shape up, from a disinterested distance and today, as I discovered via Brittney, it has reached a messy, gross low.
Yesterday, our resident conservative political pundit, Kleinheider said:
Can there not be diversity of politics within the gay community?
I mean it’s possible to be gay and a Republican. In fact, it’s possible to be gay and against gay marriage.
Criticize her politics all ya want but don’t impugn her for having them because she is gay. Mary Cheney is entitled to be gay AND have a political perspective you disagree with.
Today, I’d ask Kleinheider to take a long hard look at that video. Yes, it’s possible to be gay and a Republican, but there comes a point, when the Republican party repeatedly treats gay people like a joke and being gay as an insult, when one has to wonder what the fuck is wrong with gay Republicans.
You want to be a gay conservative? More power to you.
But to identify yourself with a political party, like this one, that widely circulates a video that has as its whole premise–I mean, clearly, the underlying joke is–that Corker and Sundquist are, as the kids say, butt-buddies?
I’ll never understand that. The casual contempt this video shows for gay people, and the outright contempt measures like the upcoming Marriage “Protection” Act show, makes it impossible for me to understand why conservative gay people would still identify as Republicans. And if Mary Cheney is going to identify herself as a gay activist AND identify herself as a Republican, everyone who can put two and two together and get four has a right to call her on that bullshit.
Because it is bullshit.
And I reckon she knows that too.
As for the Blogging for Bryant folks? “It’s really funny (and true).” Feh. I’ve got no words for you.