It’s your spin at the Republican Wheel of Disgrace. How will you publicly crash and burn while comparing yourself to a famous Biblical figure and mitigating all your anti-Clinton sanctimony?
Campaign finance and lobbying fraud are so 2003.
Humiliating your leopard print-clad wife by banging whores, jetting off to Argentina for an Emmanuelle-style tryst, or getting Mommy and Daddy to pay off your mistress entails so many press conferences.
Kid-fucking is the forte of the Catholic Church and those creepy Little House On The Prairie Mormon compounds.
At this point, the only unpardonable GOP transgression is the gay scandal, so have at tripping over every other closet case in that rat race.
South Carolina Lieutenant Governor André Bauer[top pic] (kudos on maintaining the “how ethnic” acute accent) is just the latest potential pink flamingo in a party of old hawks, falling somewhere between Troy King and Charlie Crist. Frankly, his outing by blogger Mike Rogers leaves me torn. Sure, he’s sorta hot by GOP standards — meaning he looks more like a car salesman than a banker — but there are higher limbo bars.
Typically, I don’t get any pleasure out of having your average person’s sexual proclivities trotted out. But then every Right Wing gay-baiter born without a hypocrisy valve — especially those who want to employ public policy to create a second class citizenry while wallowing in the very tawdry peccadilloes he excoriates — is fair game. Even if all the smoke is a result of a Mark Sanford-triggered smear tactic, every Bible-Brandishing Billy deserves to sweat it out under the heat of the fires he’s helped stoke.
These types always seem to go for the same brand of trick, so if their side dishes aren’t young campaign aides or wide-eyed college students at conservative campuses on one side of the spectrum, then they’re mercenary hustlers or circuit party trash on the other.
The Repubs love their Uncle Tom lapdogs who drape themselves in the most orphic of Anglican drag, and with each outing I’ve come to the conclusion that their never-ending supply of knotholes in the wall are just as culpable in being part of the problem. There seems to be a substrata of gays who enjoy effectively sleeping with the enemy and pandering to their worst instincts.
The last thing I would want or choose for myself is to be some damaged man’s walk on the wild side, nor would it send me to have any man claim I seduced and corrupted him like a sexual predator on the prowl for a sheep to pick off from the flock.
It’s the Medieval mentality that the Right espouses that casts us in the same role they condemn all women to — we are either celibate, accommodating eunuchs or wanton whores. Not only do the GOP’s countless closet cases get to have it both ways, but so do their private pieces who put out and pull out when it becomes inconvenient.
For me, blue eyes, stubble, and an aw-shucks drawl just aren’t enough to make me forgo my dignity in favor of the fleeting thrill you must get by enabling the good ol’ boys in their splintered-ass game of straddle-the-fence.
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You seem to be making a lot of blanket statements about a group of people and that seems unfair. Many democrats do not support same-sex rights while many republicans do. While your condemnation of the right wing’s overall stance on gays is not unfounded, we cannot fight hatred with hatred. Education and knowledge is the only way to combat ignorance.
It’s not hatred. It’s well-founded cynicism about a group that talks a big game and then can’t kick its fallen members to the curb fast enough once they’ve gotten caught. Calling bullshit is simply good sense cutting through all the tripe. The Right has a problem with teh gay all right — the problem is that it can’t even keep a lid on it in its own party. This is the guy who thought it was brilliant to put crucifixes on license plates and he has proudly advocated for all manner of anti-gay legislation. If marriage is so vital to society, why hasn’t this eligible bachelor gotten hitched yet? If our personal lives are up for debate, then so is his when his own rhetoric bites him in the ass.
If the Post-Obama period has shown us anything, it’s that the Right (and yes, the South included) has in no small part retreated back to the same aggressive ignorance it relies on whenever a Progressive administration thinks it may be a good thing to move past all the bible thumpin’, gun totin’, and gay hatin’ of yesteryear.
Mmm, I disagree Dan.
Tis true that some Dems do not support same-sex marriage (hello, paging President Obama) — but the GOP takes that stance and amplifies it into an insane, hand-wringing, tear-inducing, fear-goading indictment against queers (“the children, my god, think of the children”). This also incites the Christers, with their strict, harmful proscriptions against gays — and then whole melange becomes one big cluster fuck against homos, much more than just a differing political agenda.
All of that’s “ok” unless said GOP person (persons) is/are a cockgobbler(s) himself/themselves — then we have a problem.
And then writers on Nightcharm write about it.
Maybe your sentiments would be better heard on, like, Huffington Post — but not really here. We’re not your garden variety queer political site that is interested in political correctness. It’s more of a freak show here, with hard opinion and dick boinging about.
Maybe skip the opinion and just enjoy the cock.
Yes?
Just a thought.
Love to you and yours,
David K./Publisher
Your comments betray willful ignorance about the Catholic sex scandal and much bigotry both political and religious. The in depth study of the priest sex scandal covering 52 years (1950-2002) showed that 81% of the credible cases involved teenage boys, mostly older teens, i.e. what everyone would consider gay sex. Another 10% involved teenage girls. Less than 10% involved pedophilia cases and were concentrated among an even far smaller percentage of the priests involved. So much for your blanket “kid- fucking” comment. In fact, the gay friendly Episcopalian church has an even higher percentage of abuse cases involving minors. Why not aim your scorn also at men like Barney Frank, the gay hero, who literally was sleeping with a top exec of Fannie Mae while a member of the committee with oversight of that entity. Not to mention (unwittingly?)housing a gay prostitution operation out of his basement. Or the former Massachusetts Democrat congressman who slept with a House page and refused to apologize for it, winning several subsequent elections. And on and on.
Gays can be such hypocritical bigots. Stick to the porn and drop the social commentary.
“Less than 10% involved pedophilia cases and were concentrated among an even far smaller percentage of the priests involved.”
Well, your argument does at least mirror that the Church offered up: that there’s an “acceptable” level of child abuse, and the cases the Church colluded to brush under the rug were within that accepted range of error. I guess? Now, let’s extend that claim: if a daycare center told you that, say, only 2% of kids who attended it in the past year were sexually abused, would that be OK? If a college campus guaranteed that only X amount of young women were raped and their attackers transferred to other campuses for the purposes of obstruction, is that also feasible? I’m also not getting the Barney Frank analogy at all. You can’t seriously be equating the clout that a single gay politician wields with that that the Catholic Church does…are you?
You also seem to be making the troubling claim that pedophilia is wrong while hebaphilia — the sexual attraction to pubescent teenagers — is A-OK, excusable, and somehow a community standard for us. That’s a very murky moral stand to hang your hat from. I can tell that as a sexually mature 15, 16, and even 18-year-old, I was still very much a “kid” and not up for a relationship with a grown man, particularly one in an ostensible position of trust and authority and with the coffers of a powerful institution at-the-ready to defend him should our relationship come to light. I’m not sure who the “everyone” you’re referring to is, but I’d rather not be dealt in with that stacked deck.
My advice: stick with Democrat demonization (it just never gets old), but ditch the Catholic apologism, especially when backed up by numbers. Moral relativism has just never been the Church’s forte.
It’s the irony of the GOP that keeps us looking at the car wreck. The party that promotes “Family Values” and “One Man, One Woman Marriages” should have a better grasp of the concepts they are promoting. The lying to fit in with your peers and the bullying of those who are not up to your standards should have been left behind on the the childhood playground. Now lets all get back to the freak show and dancing dicks before another pink elephant appears at the closet door.
My “Nana” (may she rest in peace) once told me…”Watch out for a person who proclaims their opinions the loudest”. As an adult, I now understand what she was talking about. It does seem that you need to look between (and under) the lines of a persons statement. It seems lately the politians that have been trying the hardest to keep us down are crashing. And crashing hard. If they are caught then they should be “outed” for the hipocrites that they are. And the religous right sceaming we’re all going to burn in Hell seem to have forgotten the biggest rule of all…”Love one as you would want to be loved”. Does’nt seem to be that tough of a rule, but an awful lot of folks sure do have a hard time doing it.
Thanks Brent, my sentiments exactly. Was just going to throw my two cents in here, but you, well, you took the words right out of my mouth. Beatch!
Are there really only two parties? REALLY?
Dang u r hot I’m not just saying the I wish I could marry u