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thishereboi -> RE: How Dare an Openly Gay Man Run as a Republican In an Election he Could Win!!! (4/29/2014 6:12:47 AM)
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ORIGINAL: njlauren
It is funny, conservatives hoot and holler about how blacks will only vote for blacks, how Obama only won cause blacks won't vote for a black guy, yet when a group (in this case LGBT voters) didn't vote for a gay candidate simply because he was gay, they get outraged. Among other things, LGBT voters for the most part, outside a relatively privileged few, tend to be pretty progressive, and they aren't likely to vote Tea Party ie the party of the Koch brothers, or for a gay candidate who basically kowtowed to anti gay bigots in his own party. This isn't an east coast moderate republican, that actually still exist, this is someone who is gay and claims to be proud of it, yet who quite frankly refuses to condemn those in his own party who are so viruntley anti gay (guy reminds me a lot of Roy Cohn, who was the biggest queen this side of England, yet hated gays, was openly homophobic and supported the GOP anti homosexual agenda loudly and forcefully, including having anyone suspected of being gay who worked for the government being fired.
Among other things, many people in the LGBT community see the tea party and the GOP for what they are, a coalition of rednecks, who between promoting guns, being against abortion and hating gays, and the rich jackwagons like the Koch brothers who convince the boobs that if they just made sure corporations and they didn't pay taxes, they would make sure they had great jobs that paid well (all the while, making sure the government gave huge subsidies to companies sending jobs to China and other places), and they aren't stupid enough to vote for someone they know probably holds them in contempt, along with poor and working class people they generally want to help. They aren't not voting for him because he is running as a republican, they are not voting for him because he is an extremist asshole tea party type. Mike Bloomberg was mayor of NYC for many years, and he ran as a republican, Ed Koch Ran as a fusion candidate and was quite popular with LGBT people, but Rudy Giuliani ran as a republican and wasn't popular because he was hostile to LGBT people..it isn't the party, it is what the candidate stands for, and unlike the rednecks who complain about their fate but support GOP candidates who are making sure they never get any where, LGBT voters vote for candidates who are supportive of them, not candidates who stick knives in their backs.
I must say it is informative to sit and listen to someone go on and on about why people she has never met vote the way they do. (informative as in how the poster thinks, not informative like I think she has a clue how every gay on the right thinks) But it isn't anything I haven't heard before.
And if the only issue I ever had to worry about was tied to being gay, I might even agree. But there are a lot of issues out there and most of them have nothing to do with the topic of being gay.
I also think it's kinda cute that you honestly believe the idiots on the left really care about you and your issues. I learned a long time ago that most of them on both sides are self-serving assholes who would lie about anything as long as it got them a few votes. But you keep towing that party line and maybe they will send you a bumpersticker to show your pride.
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