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Another Dick Cheny ‘STFU’ Moment

Another Dick Cheny 'STFU' Moment

From a political party overflowing with sociopaths and creeps, none other than Dick Cheney encapsulates to a greater degree what it is the Republican party has become. The blood of ...

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Scandals: Real and Imagined

Scandals: Real and Imagined

It can be debated as to whether the filibuster came about as a political accident or was created to give minority parties a stronger say in opposing specific legislation they ...

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The Crazy, The Scum and The Dead

The Crazy, The Scum and The Dead

While gun nuts sink a little deeper into madness with each passing day, Seattle is turning guns into bricks. The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback ...

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To Infinity and Beyond!

To Infinity and Beyond!

Had enough of right-wing political crap and find yourself with a deep desire to get as far from the madding crowd as you can? Read on... The opportunity to travel to Mars ...

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In Leviticus v. Deuteronomy, There is No Winner

In Leviticus v. Deuteronomy, There is No Winner

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NRA – The Blood on Their Hands

NRA - The Blood on Their Hands

  LaPierre's speech of lunacy here. ___ Follow MarioPiperniDotCom on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. .

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Guns ‘n Kids and NRA Loons

Guns 'n Kids and NRA Loons

Here's the full quote from Charles P. Pierce. If your "way of life" involves handing deadly weapons to five-year olds, your way of life is completely screwed up and you should ...

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America The Brave…or is it America the Fearful?

America The Brave...or is it America the Fearful?

A guest post from James Fidlerten. ___ After September 11, 2011, America became united, as it grieved the loss of so many lives on American soil. The tragic event also changed so ...

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Gun Crazy Arizona Does it Again

Gun Crazy Arizona Does it Again

I'm not sure that 'crazy' is strong enough an adjective to describe the many (or few) who go to the absurd lengths they do in defending America's out-of-control gun culture. ...

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Popes, Pedophiles and Saints-to-be

Popes, Pedophiles and Saints-to-be

When an enabler of sexual abuse directed at children sits on the threshold of sainthood, you know you're living in a world of screwed-up priorities. The canonisation of Wojtyla is getting ...

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What if Bush v. Gore Never Happened?

What if Bush v. Gore Never Happened?

Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, ponders Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential election. Looking back, O'Connor said, she isn't sure the high court should have ...

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No More Bushes

No More Bushes

Barbara Bush on a Jeb run in 2016. "We've had enough Bushes." An entire planet concurs. __ Follow MarioPiperniDotCom on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. .

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Boston and Bush

Boston and Bush

Today we learn... The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his brother to carry out the ...

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Maureen Dowd’s Drivel

Maureen Dowd's Drivel

The above is in response to Maureen Dowd's ridiculous assertion that President Obama is incompetent for failing to get the 60 votes the Senate required to move the gun background ...

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Guns, Gays and Immigration

Guns, Gays and Immigration

In desperate need of an excuse for voting against background checks, here's the one an unnamed Democratic senator is using. “Guns, gays and immigration — it’s too much. I can be ...

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Congress and the NRA Makes Sure That America Loses…Again

Congress and the NRA Makes Sure That America Loses...Again

The vote came in at 55 to 45 in favor of expanding background checks for gun sales. In most institutes of democracy, that would have been more than enough to ...

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Louie Gohmert – Idiot in a Box

Louie Gohmert - Idiot in a Box

Even for Louie Gohmert apologists who can't quite grasp the fact that the man is a complete moron whose Idiot Quotient rivals that of Michele Bachmann, it has to be ...

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Boston…and believing

Boston...and believing

Exactly. Boston. Fucking horrible. I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity." But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be ...

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The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects

Less than 24 hours after the tragedy at Boston and without a clue as to whom the perpetrator might be, the bigots have crawled out from under the rocks they ...

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When Did Ignorance Become a Point of View?

When Did Ignorance Become a Point of View?

When did ignorance become a point of view? ~Dilbert Is it time yet to make a double-digit IQ a prerequisite to running for public office? Via Foolocracy: Texas Rep. Joe Barton doesn’t believe ...

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An Openly Gay Senator Is A Real Possibility This November

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This is great.

U.S. Rep Tammy Baldwin, currently running for a Wisconsin Senate seat, is four points ahead of her Republican rival, Tommy Thompson. An NBC/WSJ/Marist poll shows that 49% of voters prefer Baldwin, whose win would make her the first openly gay person to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

Stuff like this should give hope to anyone who believes that the bigoted, homophobic America that Republicans represent is anything other than an isolated one and not representative of the country as a whole. There are good, tolerant, open-minded people out there but few of them will be voting Republican this November.

And a note on my illustration above. The standard response from gay Republicans is that they are not one dimensional people. They’ll tell you that gay conservatives are also concerned about the economy, smaller government, lower taxes, foreign policy and other issues dear to Republicans. Fine, I get that part…but it’s the rest of it that I really struggle with. How, I ask, can any gay or lesbian support a political party that represents the very essence of homophobic intolerance? How?

The Republican Party wants a constitutional amendment to make same-sex marriage unlawful. The Republican Party has a base that views gays and lesbians as sexual perverts and would like to see them all in therapy where they promise that ‘the gay‘ can be cured.

If I was gay, those two facts alone trump any other conservative principle I might hold. End of story.

I cannot think of a more self-loathing individual than a gay Republican.

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Comments

  1. Sydney says:

    I think that some of these gay republicans are dreamers. They think that they can and will show the party the light, that they will be the one to finally open up the republicans eyes and cause the GOP to see them as human beings. That is never going to happen. They might as well crack their heads against the wall.
    That is the only reason that I can think of why anybody would want to be a member of a club that HATES them.

  2. Bonnie McLean says:

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    I would call them plonkers.

  3. Steve Nelson says:

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    Fascists were often gay as Hitler’s man Rohm was.

  4. Cheryl says:

    I cannot think of a more self-loathing individual than a gay Republican.

    A Republican woman, maybe?

  5. Arthur L. says:

    “I cannot think of a more self-loathing individual than a gay Republican.”

    A Latino Republican, maybe?

  6. Carol says:

    “I cannot think of a more self-delusional individual than a “poor” Republican.”….you know, the ones waiting for all the goodies to “trickle down” on them.
    I signed a petition asking the Log Cabin Republicans (their LGBT “wing”) NOT to endorse Romney and the twit…so far so good. Perhaps some of the really young ones will see change in their lifetimes but I’m certain I won’t!

  7. Cheryl says:

    We are all correct on who is the most self-hating. This race should not be this close. Unless you are a straight, white, rich man, you should get medical help if you vote Republican.