Gingrich Campaign Defects

Much of Newt Gingrinch's senior campaign staff abruptly resigned yesterday.  The rats leaving the sinking SS Newty-Newt include spokesman Rick Tyler, campaign manager Bob Johnson, senior strategists and aids in South Carolina, Iowa, and New Hampshire.  Gingrich couldn't be reached for comment because he and Calista were off on a cruise to the Greek Islands.  Seriously.  It may seem strange for a presidential candidate to abruptly go on a luxury vacation in the midst of a campaign, but those Aegean sunsets set off Tiffany's diamonds so beautifully.    

Newt Gets Glittered

This guy is lucky he didn't get arrested.  Watch to the very end when Newt's henchman gets seriously creepy:



Via Joe.My.God

Breakfast at Calista's

In 2007, the latest Mrs. Newt Gingrich reported that her husband owed $500,000 to Tiffany's.  Considering Newt's track record, I'd say Calista's a smart girl.

  
 

New Santorum for Pres Slogan Coming Soon

The Santorum for President campaign spread to New Hampshire today where he was asked by a student if he was aware that his campaign slogan, "Fighting to Make America America again," was actually borrowed from a "pro-union poem by the gay poet Langston Hughes."  Oops.  Santorum said: "No I had nothing to do with that. I didn't know that. And the folks who worked on that slogan for me didn't inform me that it came from that, if it in fact came from that."  

When asked shortly after what the slogan meant to him, he tried to pretend his slogan wasn't really a slogan:  "Well, I'm not too sure that's my campaign slogan, I think it's on a web site."

Don't worry Ricky.  Nobody who would vote for you has ever heard of Langston Hughes.

Santorum is Running!

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum whipped the GOP presidential field into a frothy mix as he announced the formation of an exploratory committee.  This is step one of the multi-step announcement process politicians go through these days to get more publicity for their campaigns.  His catchy slogan:  “Fighting to make America America again.”  Fuck yeah!  Santorum has already begun spreading his message across South Carolina, winning a straw poll in Greenville County. 

If you'd like more information on Rick Santorum, just Google him. 

Quote of the Day

"He could have been president. But when you try and change your history too much, and try and recolor it because you don't like the way it was or you want it to be different to prove something new ... you lose touch with who you really are. You lose your way."


--Marianne Gingrich, one of Newt's ex-wives.  

Guilty!

The bug man has been brought down.  A Texas jury today found Former House Speaker Tom Delay guilty of one count of money laundering and one count of conspiracy.  He could face 2 to 20 for the conspiracy and 5 to 99 or life for the money laundering. 

The exterminator turned politician first ran for office because he was pissed off at having to abide by EPA regulations in the pest control business.  In the Texas Lege, he was known as Hot Tub Tommy for his partyin' ways with women and booze.  When he decided to seek national office he, naturally, found Jesus and cleaned up his act.  Apparently graft and corruption aren't sins in his church.  

This is a man who apparently believes his own bullshit.  He said that when he posed for his mug shot, he wanted people to see Jesus through his eyes.  When I look at those beady little raisins, Jesus is the last thing I see.       

Widely known as a gigantic, bleeding asshole, Tom Delay is now finding that karma is a bitch.

Rachel Maddow on Joe Miller's Ex-Gay Connection

Gold's Gym CEO Gives Heavily to Rove's PAC

You might want to re-think that Gold's Gym membership.  Robert Rowling, CEO of TRT Holdings, which owns Gold's, gave $2 million to American Crossroads, which has vowed to spend $65 million to oust Democratic majorities in Congress. Here's what Change.org had to say:

"Among the candidates that the owner of Gold's Gym is working to elect include Nevada GOP senate candidate Sharron Angle, who is challenging Sen. Harry Reid. Angle, you might recall, has previously said that women who are raped should turn their lemons into lemonade, and that LGBT people should be barred from adopting children. And that's only the tip of iceberg. In years past, Sharron Angle put her blessing behind an insert that went out to voters that said homosexuality would lead to the destruction of the United States, and called gay people "sodomites" and "perverts." She even endorsed a statement that said there was no evidence to suggest homosexuality was biological, and that scientists who argue otherwise are flawed.



Thanks, Gold's Gym!


But Sharron Angle isn't the only candidate that American Crossroads is supporting. There's also Rep. Roy Blunt in Missouri, who is currently running for an open U.S. Senate seat in the state. Blunt has a whopping 0% rating from the Human Rights Campaign when it comes to legislation focused on the LGBT community, and has voted against the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA), in favor of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, and in favor of banning gay adoptions in Washington, D.C. And in his current campaign for U.S. Senate, he's made the preservation of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) a hot issue, suggesting that if he loses his race, DOMA will die and gay people will be allowed to get married all over the country. Ah, the horror!

Once again, thank you, Gold's Gym."

I wonder what percentage of Gold's membership is gay?   

Was Paladino in the Gay Bar Business?

The Carl Paladino story gets more bizarre every day.  You read about the New York Republican candidate for governor's hideous rant about children being "brainwashed" into becoming "dysfunctional homosexuals."  Then he issued a non-apology apology that cannot possibly be reconciled with his statements.  Now comes news that this professional landlord collected rent from two gay clubs in Buffalo from 2004-2006.  One of the clubs, Cobalt, was run by Paladino's son!  The other, Buddies II, operated in another Paladino building in 2005 and 2006.  

I guess he's not afraid to make money off "dysfunctional homosexuals," as long as we know our place, which is apparently in one of his gay bars!

Ugly Quote of the Day II

"I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option--it isn't. There is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual. That is not how God created us."

--Carl Paladino, the crude moron who will be governor of New York unless every thinking person in the Empire State gets out and votes.  Do you think he's aware of the Bronx gay torture case?  Do you think he gives a shit? 

Ken Mehlman Comes Out, Wants Us to Love Him

Ken Mehlman, the mealy-mouth architect of George W. Bush's toxic 2004 re-election campaign has come out of the closet.  You remember 2004 as the low point of gay hate as an official Republican campaign strategy.  He played a large role in all those damnable state constitutional amendments that taught so many people that our relationships have no value.  Fuck Ken Mehlman.  Here's his statement: 

 "It's taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life. Everybody has their own path to travel, their own journey, and for me, over the past few months, I've told my family, friends, former colleagues, and current colleagues, and they've been wonderful and supportive. The process has been something that's made me a happier and better person. It's something I wish I had done years ago. I wish I was where I am today 20 years ago. The process of not being able to say who I am in public life was very difficult. No one else knew this except me. My family didn't know. My friends didn't know. Anyone who watched me knew I was a guy who was clearly uncomfortable with the topic."

This is, of course, utter horse shit.  He took his boyfriend to Bush inaugural events and Mike Rogers called him on it.  He's been out among his Republican friends for years.  It just sounds more palatable to talk about his tortured "journey."  Gay hate is passe in right-wing circles now, and he's joining Beck, Coulter and O'Reilly as rats abandoning a sinking ship. 

I'm all for everyone having their own journey, God knows I had mine, but I have no sympathy for fags who screwed us for profit by day and screwed their boyfriends by night.        

Now it's "Anchor Embryos"

You've heard all the breathless blather about "anchor babies," which are children of undocumented immigrants born in the US.  Republican after Republican has endorsed shredding the Constitution and ending birthright citizenship in order to get a few anti-immigrant votes.  Now, two Rhode Island state lawmakers, one a Republican and the other a Democrat, have begun scaring people about "anchor embryos."  It seems that RI is one of a handful of states that provides pre-natal care based on the status of the foetus instead of the status of the mother.  Sounds "pro-life," right?  Not to Reps Palumbo and Trillo.  They want to end this so the mothers will "self-deport."  Watch these two talk about "enkah embrioos" with hard-hitting Greta Van Susterin:


  

There's a New Quayle in Town

Dan Quayle has a son!  He's all grown up!  His name is...who cares?  He loooves Arizona!  He's inherited his father's douchey-cute, grudge-fuck looks and the towering intellect.  Plus, he's running for Congress!  Check it out:



Now check out Rob Tisinai's slight clarification:



I wonder if he has a Mary Richards knock-off wife?

Anti-Gay Senator Arrested After Leaving Gay Bar

I know this was all over the web yesterday, which might as well be last century in net years, I've been so busy that I haven't had a chance to post on it.  I couldn't pass it up!  The senator in question is California state senator Roy Ashburn and he was arrested for a DUI after leaving Faces, a Sacramento gay club.  Roy was with a certain unnamed handsome young man.  Naturally, Republican Roy is his strong anti-gay voting record.  He has voted against every pro-gay bill that has come up during his tenure, including Harvey Milk Day, anti-discrimination laws and recognition of out-of-state marriages.  Plus, this turd hosted a "traditional family values" hatefest in 2005 to drum up support for a constitutional amendment prohibiting gays from marrying.  This reinforces my belief that when a politician or preacher becomes an anti-gay crusader, there's always a deeply personal reason.  The closet cases are our worst enemy. 



Ashburn also has a strong anti-immigrant voting record.  Why is that relevant?  It turns out it was Latin Night at Faces, including the ever-popular Miss Gay Latina pageant.  The unnamed handsome young man in Roy's car was also Hispanic. 

I guess Roy likes to fuck Latin men literally and figuratively. 

Homophobe Booed Off Stage at CPAC

Watch what happens when a young douchebag from California tries to blast CPAC for inviting GOProud, a gay, far-right Republican group, to the conference.  The crowd isn't having it:



Conservative does not necessarily equal gay-hater. 

From Media Matters

GOProud at CPAC

CNN reported on gay Republican group GOProud, which is co-sponsoring the CPAC conference, currently meeting in DC.  Watch if you have a strong stomach for ignorance and hate:



Note the friendly handshake with representatives of the hate group NOM.  Note also the so-called young, gay-friendly conservative woman who said there's an attitude among those under 40 that people have a right to do what they want in their private lives "and take the consequences, too."  Consequences?  What are the consequences of being gay, open-minded conservative lady?  Just what does that mean?   You don't care if we sodomize each other in private as long as we die young and burn in hell?