Romney Spokesman Ousted For Being Gay

A huge mistake by Mitt.

It's time for Romney to stand up and be a leader.

His spokesman who is openly gay was pushed out of the campaign by social cons. Romney cannot let these zealots hold sway over his campaign and this may very well hurt him on many fronts.

To my fellow Republicans, I ask you, think about what this looks like. We are the party of opportunity and to allow this to happen bothers me and makes me wonder just what kind of leader Romney will be. To accede to the wishes of these closed-minded bigots is the wrong move and Romney will need all the brains he can hire for this campaign.

Doesn't the Romney campaign see exactly how this will play in the media? At a time we are seeing Obama get creamed on a bunch of fronts, Romney allows this BS to happen?

He was running a pretty good campaign over the last several weeks and needed to just allow Obama to continue to implode. His Osama victory lap isn't playing well at all and he was riding a nice wave. Now this.

Mitt needs to get out there and slap down the bastards who forced this to occur and make damn sure everyone knows that the GOP is not going to play this game anymore.

Update: There's some arguments as to why he was asked to leave but my original thoughts remain valid; it looks terrible for the campaign but luckily it appears this story doesn't have quite the legs it would have if Obama had put out the ridiculous "Julia" garbage.

Anti-Bullying Advocate Bullies Christians

Meet liberal douchebag Dan Savage. Old Dan is a big name supposedly in anti-bullying efforts. He's a gay guy who has been involved with the Obama administration and Hollywood elites trying to stop bullying at school.

 For some reason, a national journalism conference attended by high school students thought it would be a good idea to have this guy address the conference and booked him.

 Well, Dan decided to act like the dick head he is and began ripping into the Christians and the Bible. Approximately 100 students walked out while he was speaking. Here's the speech and you can see how many people turned their backs and walked:

 Good for the students.

 It gets worse, this asshole decided it would be a good idea to use words like "bullshit" when speaking to high school kids. He also made comments about his boyfriend in a speedo and felt good bullying kids with taunts like "pansy ass".

 Listen, I'm a gay marriage agnostic. If Chuck and Jim want to get married, who the hell am I to say no as long as the rules are the same as they are for hetero's (alimony, child support, etc).

 But why do liberal gay people have to be so repugnant when discussing religion? So what if one thinks Christianity is a cult, is a high school conference the place to do it?

 It's interesting that Savage and other pussies like him choose to attack Christianity for thing written centuries ago but don't have the balls to attack Islam where gays are openly stoned today.

 Last thought: I'm guessing all the conference attendees who cheered when he ripped the Bible are the same ones who will one day work for the New York Times, Washington Post and LA Times.

Don't We Have More Pressing Issues Than Gay Marriage in Africa?

America is still--in spite of Obama--a beacon for the world. The American president's words still carry a certain amount of clout (which is why we all got worked up when he apologized and bowed to everyone we've ever slightly offended, but I digress). So why are we getting involved in sovereign issues in Liberia and other sub-Saharan African nations?

On January 19, three days after Clinton attended the second-term inauguration ceremony of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, Sirleaf's press secretary announced that she would veto any legislation allowing gays to wed or legalizing homosexuality. In February, a Liberian lawmaker introduced legislation that would ban gay marriage. The bill, an amendment to existing legislation banning incestuous marriages and polygamy, would make gay marriage a first-degree felony, with prison sentences of up to ten years. Later in the month, another legislator introduced a bill that would make "same-sex sexual practices" a second-degree felony, carrying up to five years in prison. The bill would also make it a crime to "purposefully engage in acts that arouses or tend to arouse another person of the same gender (male/female) to have sexual intercourse." Both pieces of legislation are currently being reviewed in committee.

Two telling things here; first, that it was Hillary who spoke the words for Obama and second that the Liberian president went right out and vetoed the legislation. That's a woman saying you have only limited clout in Liberia Madam Secretary.

But more telling is that Obama says he is against gay marriage in the US and sends his proxy to lobby for gay marriage in a part of the world where it's frowned upon to the point that they actually are debating making gay sex a crime. Typical Obama response on an issue: for political reasons he's anti-gay marriage in the US but thinks he can tell others what to do.

If the anti-gay bias of another nation is so important, why not come down hard on the nation that is so anti-gay that homosexuals face being stoned to death and the leader of said nation actually uttered the words that there are no gays in his country? Why, because that would take balls and our president sorely lacks them.

This Here Big Tent Should Be a Big Tent

Allahpundit notes that John Cornyn is getting some heat from the establishment GOP (read: those who bow to evangelicals) about attending a Log Cabin republican meet up.

All credit goes to Cornyn for saying the hell with it and attending an event the aforementioned evangelicals believe is akin to the anonymous sex clubs Tom Hanks frequented in Philadelphia. He's getting it and it has everything to do with Tea Party madness as he would considered it political suicide to have contemplated it previously.

And therein lies the problem I've always had with the establishment GOP; they always inject social issues into the debate when at this point we have no room for it. We are facing economic Armageddon and most people are too damn concerned about paying for food and their house and less about whether Jim and John want to hook up or get married. Abortion is distasteful but we have the opportunity to get control back and set things on a more even keel fiscally and that will be impossible if we get into the gay marriage or any other social issue. The Christian right is a non-factor and that's how it has to remain if we have any shot at taking back the entire Legislative branch.

The Tea Party is a movement that has the ability to shift the political landscape in ways we'll not realize for a decade. The most important way would be to smack the religious sector in the mouth and make them understand that the majority of Americans and--dare I say--the majority of the new Right just doesn't give a damn if two women want to exchange vows. I never have and I'm a hard-core conservative with a strong libertarian streak.

This is our time and the moment can be turned to dust by the zealous Christian minority. We, as a party have no choice but to be welcoming to all who preach fiscal responsibility. This is a different America than it was thirty years ago, an America where the main tax-paying demographic grew up knowing guys who were gay, a girl who chose an abortion and a dude who smokes weed as a hobby but is still pretty damn cool. It's not the party of Reagan when it comes to social issues but it is when it comes to faith in what America was, is and will be. Why exclude those who were born gay?

Imagine the coalition we could form if we included those we've traditionally shunned.

Thursday Night News and Notes

Hey y'all.

I'm full of venom tonight as my boys I-pod was ripped off and so was my phone. Here's to hoping there's a special place in hell for thieves. Preferably where they have barbed implements jammed into orifices.

Anyway, here's what's going on:

-Our illustrious president was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for, well, nothing. Here's what he said in his acceptance speech that I have to give him props for:

I make this statement mindful of what Martin Luther King Jr. said in this same ceremony years ago: "Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones." As someone who stands here as a direct consequence of Dr. King's life work, I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak -- nothing passive -- nothing naïve -- in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.

But as a head of state sworn to protect and defend my nation, I cannot be guided by their examples alone. I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism -- it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.

"Evil does exist in the world"...many liberals don't ever comprehend that. Still a great many first person references but how does one make a speech for a an award one didn't deserve?

-Uganda has been swept up in a Muslim fervor and shariah law is the law of the land throughout much of the nation. The despotic regime is on the verge of passing legislation that would sentence homosexuals to death--all under the guise of stopping HIV. Libs went right for the blame the Evangelicals and neocons card but GOP representatives have come out against this vile action before Obama did.

-Oh Lord, we're putting the passage or failure of the healthcare fiasco in the hands of the Maine twins. Dude, Snowe better get her act together on this and not abandon who supported her.

-Got us a high-ranking al-Qaeda scumbag today. Not bin-Laden or Zawahiri but they have effectively been figureheads. The number three is the guy and hopefully it's who we targeted. Here's to hoping we slammed a Phoenix right into his left nostril. I'm so happy I want to be the first to say happy Nobel Peace Prize day!

-How pissed am I today? More pissed than Maynard was when he wrote this little ditty about LA washing into the Pacific and dreaming of swimming in Arizona Bay (NSFW or kids):

Cheney Reiterates Support of Gay Marriage

I find it humorous that homosexuals overwhelmingly support Obama when he is on record numerous times saying he does not support gay marriage. Of course, this being Obama and all, it may change next week because his position is fluid and the one that he finds most politically expedient will be the one he'll take, but I digress.

Anyway, Dick Cheney has once again said that he is a supporter of gay marriage and he has the right idea; it's a stupid argument for the GOP to battle against same-sex marriage when we have myriad other, more important issues facing us.

Here's Cheney:

"I think that freedom means freedom for everyone," replied the former V.P. "As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal statute to protect this, I don't support. I do believe that the historically the way marriage has been regulated is at the state level. It has always been a state issue and I think that is the way it ought to be handled, on a state-by-state basis. ... But I don't have any problem with that. People ought to get a shot at that."

Exactly right. Quite simply, by banning legal gay unions, we as a nation are trampling on the rights of a segment of the population and that is unconstitutional. If laws are written so that gay unions (or marriage) are the same as heterosexual unions (divorce, alimony, shared property, etc.) then I see no reason that they shouldn't be allowed.

Now if we could only get Obama to the right of Cheney on fiscal policy and not just gay marriage, we would be getting somewhere.

The Gay SS

Homosexuals are a combined 0-30 in electoral battles to get same-sex marriage legalized. The latest and probably hardest blow...er, most difficult loss to deal with was the passage of Prop. 8 in California. This was it they thought, this was the winner with a high turn out expected and an extremely liberal presidential candidate whom would draw in millions of voters who would support them and vote the measure down.

Unfortunately for them, they lost once again. Now they are turning their wrath on those who they feel wronged them and posting names:

In addition to protests, gay activists have begun publishing lists online exposing individuals and organizations who have donated money in support of Proposition 8. On AntiGayBlacklist.com, individuals who gave money toward Proposition 8 are publicized, with readers urged not to patronize their businesses or services. The list of donors was culled from data on ElectionTrack.com, which follows all contributions of over $1,000 and all contributions of over $100 given before October 17. Dentists, accountants, veterinarians and the like who gave a few thousand dollars to the cause are listed alongside major donors like the Container Supply Co., Inc. of Garden Grove, Calif., which gave $250,000. "Anyone who steps into a political fight aimed at taking away fundamental rights from fellow citizens opens themselves up to criticism," said Wolfson. "The First Amendment gives them the right of freedom of speech and to support political views, but people also have the right to criticize them."

Now just imagine that it was a conservative group doing the same thing, does anyone believe even a little that there wouldn't being a sentence in that piece about incitement to violence or somesuch language? What these gay brownshirts are doing is listing targets and the gay group have already shown that they will attack anyone--old women, blacks, etc.--who had the chutzpah to get in their way. Imagine if, say, a pro 2nd Amendment group did the same thing.

Someone is going to get seriously hurt in this and the media will gloss it over.

Update: Read this and watch this. Instead of calling it a black list, call it a hit list because essentially, they are calling for the all-out assault on those who exercised their freedoms and are setting those people up for revenge.

Update: Note (second item) as well how even though 70% of blacks voted for Prop 8, the NY Times singles out Mormons.

Tolerance and Freedom of Speech In California

Gays, Lesbians and those a bit confused attacked an old woman who dared speak out against them:



The funny thing is I'd have voted no on Prop 8 if I stilled lived in Cali but these people are insane enough that I'd reconsider that right about now.

Monday Morning News and Notes

In Atlalnta on business. Thanks to Glenn for the Instalanche yesterday. Always appreciated, Prof.

Here's what's news today:

The Goracle is looking to wipe out our economy even faster than previously.

More hope and change from those who lost elections. And no, they're not GOP folks.

The nanny state has claimed another victim.

About what we've grown to expect from the MSM.

Bigoted Blacks and Other Election Anomalies

In California, Proposition 8 was voted for and instituted into the state constitution that marriage is between one man and one woman. This after a gaggle of money was thrown into the battle to vote it down by many liberal luminaries.

The bloc of voters who were most vehemently against gay marriage may shock you as will the response from the tolerant gay community. First the voting breakdown:

With similar results the same day in Florida and Arizona, the scoreboard in popular referenda on such amendments is now Marriage 30, Same Sex Marriage 0. It was the fact that in the most socially liberal state in the country, whites had voted (narrowly) against the amendment, Hispanics narrowly for, and black voters overwhelmingly for the traditional definition of marriage. Amazingly, Los Angeles County, which chose Obama over McCain 69 percent to 29 percent, supported Proposition 8, with black voters in crime-ridden South Los Angeles neighborhoods like Compton voting strongly in favor, while Beverly Hills, Westwood, and Pacific Palisades were tolerantly and disdainfully against.

That's not surprising to me as the black community--especially the church-going black community--has always been vocal against homosexuality among other things.

Now on to the vile response by the homosexual community:

It was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks. YOU NIGGER, one man shouted at men. If your people want to call me a FAGGOT, I will call you a nigger. Someone else said same thing to me on the next block near the temple...me and my friend were walking, he is also gay but Korean, and a young WeHo clone said after last night the niggers better not come to West Hollywood if they knew what was BEST for them.

Nice, huh? We lose the election, we regroup and get ready to battle in 2010. Not so the gay community where they hurl racial slurs--racial slurs that would be front page news if they were not used by a liberal bloc.

Tolerance is only applicable when it's asked of conservatives. It's nice to see the era of unity Barack Obama is supposed to usher in starting so soon after his win.

Update: Speaker Pelosi seems to thinks voters as a whole and African-Americans are too stupid to vote correctly:

In a wide-ranging interview with The Chronicle, Pelosi said she believes some voters might not have fully understood the initiative, which overturned a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. The measure was approved 52 to 48 percent.

"Unfortunately, I think people thought they were making a statement about what their view of same-sex marriage was," the San Francisco Democrat said. "I don't know if it was clear that this meant that we are amending the Constitution to diminish freedom in our state."

Since it was the black vote that helped pass it, what exactly is Rep. Pelosi saying here?

Read the whole thing as Barack Obama sets the tone for how he'll deal with the national embarrassment of a Speaker. He wouldn't even let her in on the inauguration speech afetr she acted like a school girl when talking with him about the victory speech.

Gambian Leader Makes Ahmadinejad Cream His Jeans

Even old Mahmoud didn't go this far when he said "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country,":

Eccentric Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has threatened to behead gays unless they leave the country, according to reports.

"The Gambia is a country of believers ... sinful and immoral practices (such) as homosexuality will not be tolerated in this country," the president told a crowd at a political rally on May 15, local journalists told AFP on Thursday.

He went on to say he would "cut off the head" of any gay person caught in The Gambia.

The anti-gay campaign continued in the Gambian pro-government media this week with the Daily Observer publishing a virulent editorial.

"We have said it before and we will say it again. This is a Muslim and Christian country. Both the Koran and the holy Bible condemn homosexuality - pure and simple," the paper wrote on Monday.

Nice, why waste energy on stoning or hanging them or pushing over brick walls when you can just whack off their heads and be done with it? I imagine more Muslim than Christian as those pesky Episcopalians haven't offed any gay people in ages.

I recall when Ahmadinejad uttered the "no homosexuals" comment, I found it to be among the more chilling statements I had heard. I waited for the media to condemn him...I'm still waiting. You see, slamming old Mahmoud would mean siding with Bush and the MSM and their liberal followers just couldn't bring themselves to do that.

I'm sure Ahmadinejad is getting all warm and fuzzy reading about Jammeh's solution.

Via Tim Blair who notes AFP's odd terminology.