“Gay Patriot” To Decide By Mid-April Whether To Challenge Lindsey Graham

[DonViejo]

The gay conservative is considering taking on the senior South Carolina senator in 2014. He also is taking on gay progressives — and defending DOMA.

posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:42pm EDT

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Confrontational gay blogger Bruce Carroll will decide over the next six weeks whether he will become one of the first out Republicans to run for statewide office in the South, he said Thursday.

The bombastic blogger known as "Gay Patriot," who is weighing a challenge to South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham in 2014, likely would run without the support of large segments of the LGBT community that has helped fund many out candidates' runs for office. And in the age of the blogger-politician, he may also have to account for some of his own words, on his blog and on Twitter.

"Personally, I think the gay progressives have wasted a lot of time and resources trying to die on the cross of the word 'marriage.' I think civil unions, potentially, could have been passed at the federal level, maybe even 10 years ago," Carroll told BuzzFeed in a cafe at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center on Thursday, the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Before Carroll even gets to dealing with the substance of gay issues, however, he will first have to fact the question of whether a gay Republican could launch a realistic run for statewide office in South Carolina.

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/gay-patriot-to-decide-by-mid-april-whether-to-challenge-lind

[monmouth3]

1. Likely good intentions but doesn't have a prayer..Amen..

[Bluenorthwest]

2. How exactly is the 'the age of the blogger/politician'?

Have any other bloggers run for or won office?

[dsc]

3. Civil Unions at the federal level 10 years ago?

Really? The 10th anniversary of the Lawrence decision is June so 10 years ago sodomy was still illegal in 14 states. Civil Unions was in one state at that time. I had a better chance of winning the Boston Marathon than we had of seeing a federal law allowing civil unions.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Yeah

Seriously????? He seriously believes that a Republican Congress and President would've approved civil unions at the Federal level? Really? WTF is this guy smoking? I want me some...............

[Hosnon]

4. The author clearly isn't familiar with Lindsey Graham:

"... whether a gay Republican could launch a realistic run for statewide office in South Carolina."

He'd be challenging a gay Republican who has won statewide office in South Carolina. The real question is whether South Carolina will elect anything other than a House Gay.

[Doctor_J]

5. heh. two gay Repukes in the SC primary

[David Zephyr]

6. Let's hope he runs. It will force Lindsey out of the closet.

It's a great idea. A gay primary challenger.

[bluedigger]

7. That doesn't sound like a very diverse primary field to me. n/t

[yashoo]

9. Sure Hope So

The nasty, hateful and ugly response he will get will only undermine the GOP's stone age approach to gay rights even as the RNC advocates sweeping it under the rug. And maybe it will even wake him up.

Actually, nevermind. Maybe he WANTS to expose the GOP base! This guy might even be a liberal Trojan horse. Good work dude! You had me totally convinced you were insane.