Of all the things to watch, one of the most amusing has to be the republicans trying to shed the racist-homophobe-white bread Christo-Fascist image they have so carefully built over the last few years as they try and "reach out" to be "inclusive". Diligent Dick the Party Man allowing that the States might be OK signing anti-gay marriage laws into being 'steada messing with the constitution; scientists actually getting to say that, yeah, there might be some science to the whole global warming thing. Not a single wing-nut speaker in prime-time; the attack dogs have muzzles and short leashes. And Preznit Free Speech Zone will make an appearance for about eight minutes then head off to the next part of the Fleece America Tour '04.
The best part of the whole thing? Watch the Log Cabin Republicans.
Some activists sharply criticized their party for adopting a hard line in advance of a convention that will seek support from swing voters and more liberal Republicans.
"You can't craft a vicious, mean-spirited platform and then try to put lipstick on the pig by putting Rudy Giuliani and Arnold Schwarzenegger on in prime time," Christopher Barron of the Log Cabin Republicans, a GOP gay-rights group, said in an interview.
Other than the fact that these folks probably sniffed too much glue or something at a young age, I'm sure they are sincere but feeling somewhat ... left out? If there were ever a group of poster childrens for some sort of cognitive dissonance-like syndrome, it has to be the Log Cabin Republicans this year. How often do you have to get smacked around before getting tired of it? I guess we can stay tuned and find out.
posted by Jo Fish on 08.26.04 at 08:39 PM
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Shedding the racist tag? Are you kidding? This is from MoveOn.org's latest email to its members:
Last month John Pappageorge, a Republican state representative in Michigan, told a journalist that the Republicans would do poorly if they failed to “suppress the Detroit vote.” Detroit, of course, is 83% black.
Democratic officials expressed their outrage, and Pappageorge eventually apologized for his words, but his statement spoke to a bigger truth: Republicans continue to actively suppress black and minority votes in order to win elections through intimidation, misinformation, and tampering with voter rolls and records. . . .
Yeah, they don't mind black people, as long as they don't get uppity and try to vote.
Log Cabin Republicans suffer from what I term Battered Sully Syndrome (BSS)... the more they get beat up, the more they want to be liked by the attacker. (See Sullivan, Andrew).
posted by: LordFairfax on 08.27.04 at 06:02 PM [permalink]
A few years ago I saw a meeting of LCR's on C-Span and it was so outrageous I'll never forget it. One spokesman was a gay black male who said that as he drove his new Mercedes down the street he could see the resentment in the eyes of the white liberals as he drove by. I wondered if was possesed by the same demon that posseses Annthrax Coulter. Did he even stop for a second to think about what he was saying. I'm with them on gay rights, but after that I see them as every bit wacko as any other wing-nut group.
posted by: anti-drudge on 08.28.04 at 04:17 AM [permalink]
