EXCLUSIVE: Richard Grenell hounded from Romney campaign by anti-gay conservatives

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives.

In a statement obtained by Right Turn, Grenell says:

I have decided to resign from the Romney campaign as the Foreign Policy and National Security Spokesman. While I welcomed the challenge to confront President Obama’s foreign policy failures and weak leadership on the world stage, my ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished by the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign. I want to thank Governor Romney for his belief in me and my abilities and his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team.

According to sources familiar with the situation, Grenell decided to resign after being kept under wraps during a time when national security issues, including the president’s ad concerning Osama bin Laden, had emerged front and center in the campaign.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/exclusive-richard-grenell-hounded-from-romney-campaign-by-anti-gay-conservatives/2012/05/01/gIQAccGcuT_blog.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop

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How's that pivot to the center coming?

[marmar]

1. Like a pack of rabid, hate-filled dogs.........

....... the Reich wing is a pox on humanity.

[C_U_L8R]

2. And Romney didn't stand up for him.

Willard is such a freakin' Milquetoast

[chelsea0011]

3. So he thanked Mitt for trying to stuff him back into the "closet"?

Romney shows no backbone if he brought this guy on board and couldn't control his underlings from pushing him to the back seat where they could silence him.

[gratuitous]

4. Hey Richard, how well did your silence protect you?

Did you learn any lesson, or will you be back tomorrow to lick that hand that slaps you?

[Archae]

5. "President Obama’s foreign policy failures?"

What failures?

No wonder the guy was given the boot.

[IggleDoer]

7. He failed to force the Cayman Islands to raise interest rates ...

... on their offshore accounts.

[wordpix]

14. that would include getting OBL after * couldn't for 10 years

[Iliyah]

6. I'm still wrapping my head

around pro gopper gays. The present GOP party are crazed "Christian" zealots. I know many of the goppers are closet, but shit don't they realize that they are not "going to heaven"? Well thats what the so called Christians say, but then again, they are not going neither - LOL

[xchrom]

8. Wow. What a coward Willard is!

If he can't defend his own security guy from a bunch of 'critics'.

How's he gonna defend the country?

[truthisfreedom]

9. Are anti-gay republicans afraid someone will put a log in their cabin?

Why do they even care about other people's lifestyles?

[siligut]

10. He must have been delusional to think that he would be treated with respect and courtesy by that lot

Someone probably thought he would look good for the campaign, but really didn't think much beyond that.

[Tx4obama]

11. Kick. n/t

[DeSwiss]

12. K&R

''If he can't stand up to his own wingnuts, how can he stand up to Russia & China?'' ~ Veritas78

[Honeycombe8]

13. Why do gay people continue to think they will be accepted into the Republican fold?

A party who caters to the large constituency of evangelists, as well as the deep south, and a party that has taken the official position against gay marriage and many of whom are against gay rights of any sort....why would they still think it's possible for them to be accepted in such a group? Makes no sense.

[matt819]

15. It amazes me as well

I can't imagine how a gay person can be a political conservative.

[shawn703]

16. Gotta love it

Token women are okay to "prove they aren't really sexist".

Token minorities are okay to "prove they aren't really racist".

But they don't even try to pretend like they aren't anti-gay, yet this guy supports them? Self-hate much?

[agentS]

18. Sad sack, Bush League, below the belt!

The guy obviously had the chops to work for R-Money. So what if he was gay? How does that affect his foreign policy goals?

These conservatives are pure-bred scum of the Earth. 40 years ago, they would have complained if the guy had been black.

Maybe this guy will think a little bit more before he tweets, and maybe more people will come to his defense.

If Adolf Hitler were still around (Godwin's Law, I know...) the conservatives would be begging R-Money to put him on the team as an adviser, until they find out about the cousin-dating thing.

[skypilot]

19. Look at how he...

...sidesteps acknowledging that the attacks are coming from his own party:

"...my ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished by the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign."

From a presidential campaign? He's trying to make it sound as though his "personal issues" are being harped on by the left and the right when in fact it's his own party that has attacked and disowned him. Delusional as usual.