Burnt Orange Report

I never have quite understood the Log Cabin phenomenon. Not to be Freudian, but I think they suffer from a derivation of battered woman's syndrome. "I know he treats me like that, but I just KNOW that he really does love me, and I can get him to change."

Wake up, wife beaters do not change because their victims put up with them and change them from within the home - it takes outside groups, like criminal enforcement. Likewise, the Republicans will not cease to harbor a base of bigotry as a result of forces from within. It will take tolerant people voting them out of office until they realize they cannot win the office of dog cather until they change.

On the other hand, their strategy is like what the Green Party could do to the Democratic party. While it may not agree with many democrats, it could join the party and try to gain power through numbers to pull it one way or another. If there were simply enough organized gay republicans, then suddenly Rove pays attention because all he cares about is numbers and winning, not necessarily the actual 'republican vision' beyond simply taking over.

I think I might also compare the LCRs to the Democrats for Life people (pro-life dems). They are equally out of place on the issue with most party memebers but often times believe in everything else in the democratic party. They are also probably the democrats who are anti-death penalty and anti-abortion because of the life issue in both.

I wish it really was difficult to understand why
some gays persist in believing in the Republican
Party. Here are a few of the reasons why:
1)Oppressed peoples always identify with their
oppressors and seek to imitate them in one
fashion or another
2)The Republican financial voodoo of low taxes
and insane spending and let the next generation
worry about the deficit will always be
attractive to some segments of the population
of all races, ethnicities, and sexual
orientations just because it sounds so daring
and irresponsible.
3)Gays, like every other group in America, often
profess what Mark Twain called 'corn-pone
opinions' wherein they swallow the local
political propaganda without reflection. Where
I live (West Texas), many gays are Republican
simply because their Daddy and their brothers
and their doctor and the man who cuts their
lawn are Republican, and besides just because
the Republicans blame everything that goes wrong
on gays doesn't mean they really plan to do
damage to us...does it?
4)Some gays hate blacks and hispanics more than
than they love themselves.

I wish it really was difficult to understand why
some gays persist in believing in the Republican
Party. Here are a few of the reasons why:
1)Oppressed peoples always identify with their
oppressors and seek to imitate them in one
fashion or another
2)The Republican financial voodoo of low taxes
and insane spending and let the next generation
worry about the deficit will always be
attractive to some segments of the population
of all races, ethnicities, and sexual
orientations just because it sounds so daring
and irresponsible.
3)Gays, like every other group in America, often
profess what Mark Twain called 'corn-pone
opinions' wherein they swallow the local
political propaganda without reflection. Where
I live (West Texas), many gays are Republican
simply because their Daddy and their brothers
and their doctor and the man who cuts their
lawn are Republican, and besides just because
the Republicans blame everything that goes wrong
on gays doesn't mean they really plan to do
damage to us...does it?
4)Some gays hate blacks and hispanics more than
than they love themselves.

Karl,

There is really a key difference between Greens/Democrats or ProLifers/Democrats and Gays/Republicans. Some Greens and ProLifers may not agree with parts of the Democratic party's positions, but the Democratic Party is not on a witchhunt to oppress these groups - there are honest differences of opinion.

With gays and Republicans, the later are actively oppressing the former, which makes the situation sui generis.

I know a thing or two about Gay Republicans, having been one myself for a dozen or so years. I think it was because my mother fed me formula, denying me my proper nourishment. Having explained my own personal variation from normal behavior and thinking, a close friend who is no longer with us, told me once that he remained a Republican so that they would always know that Gays existed. He felt we would benefit if they were constantly reminded that we are not "someone else." And some people are just naturally suck-ups.

The LAT is (surprise) misleading...

I was at the convention and whether to endorse was never brought up. The focus of the discussion was whether to, what questions should be asked of the campaign and of the organization...

One key factor will be the tone of the convention. Is it Philly 2000 or Houston 1992?

The straw polls came out about 2-1 in favor of endorsement, but that will be left to the Board which will meet during the RNC in New York...I will be posting more about this tomorrow...