Outings: Lindasay Graham, Scott McClellen, Ken Mehlman...

[tishaLA]

and Matt Drudge to have those closet doors blown off? It might happen because of Dear Mary, according to BlogActive

[newsguyatl]

1. there's nothing i'd love to see more

i knew about graham and mehlman, didn't know about mcclellen

geez, the bush campaign is gayer than a cher concert in san fran during pride!

[Catfight]

21. I heard Condi Rice is gay too...had a lover in college...rumor or not?

[dave123williams]

44. Oh, hell; every woman I know had a female lover in college...

[Carla in Ca]

37. LOL..Well, that about covers it...that's funny!

n/t

[nostamj]

2. David Brock outed Drudge YEARS ago

Snotty and Mehlman? damn, we DON'T WANT THEM!!!

[DemBones DemBones]

31. Did you WANT Drudge?

:shrug:

Just wondering. . .

[txindy]

32. **snicker**

Oh, and I do?! No, uh-uh, nope.

Oh, let's not worry. Remember, we live in the "reality-based community." Our paths will never cross those of Scotty and Mehlman. They're in a dimension all their own. YAY! ;)

[Thrill]

3. You mean no one has outed Lindsay Graham?

Didn't he have a sex change?

[Mike L]

5. Graham is one of the least bad Repukes.

SC would get an extremist Repuke Senator (Bob Inglis) if he's outed. Let's not attack him.

[The Magistrate]

7. Not So, Sir

He was, along with his brother, a stalwart in the '98 Coup against President Clinton: no fate too foul can befall any foot soldier in that atrocious assault on Democracy....

"I have a little list of those who'd never be missed."

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[0007]

25. You are so right Mr. Magistrate - I too will cease to forget

the Clinton fiasco, led by Lindsey Graham, and Asa Hutchings.

Who was Lindsey's brother?

[DemBones DemBones]

33. Sir, would you share your "little list"?

Comparing lists could be useful. . . though what a surprise it is that Mr. Bob Barr, in his latter days in office and now, is speaking out against the PATRIOT Act and his party's own leader, Mr. Bush. He was certainly on my little list in the past.

[Carla in Ca]

38. I agree. Lately he has sounded a little,

dare I say, moderate, but I will NEVER, EVER forget his participation in the Clinton Coup. What goes around...

[jefferson_dem]

9. I agree on Graham. I get the sense of at least a modicum of integrity

from him. His aggressiveness on prison abuse scandal should be recognized. That said...he's still a puke. Fuck 'em.

[BOSSHOG]

11. Yeah

He showed all kinds of conservative integrity during the Impeachment hearings last century.

[Mike L]

12. He's against tort deform also.

Re Abu Ghraib, he was the only senator or representative who admitted that the unpublished photos and videos showed rape and murder.

Ther is no question that Bob Inglis, who ran against Fritz Hollings in 1998, would take his seat. We don't want that. Hollings only beat Inglis in 98 because of some internal things that were going on in the SC governor's race.

[IIgnoreNobody]

10. Let's not declare defeat before the battle is joined or even planned.

First of all, as I said in my headline, your certainty that Democrats can't win a future election in which we don't even know who the candidates will be is laughable.

Second of all, what are Lindsay Graham's redeeming qualities? I don't know of any.

[Mike L]

13. I know who the candidate will be-- Bob Inglis.

Inglis has already won three terms in the House. I live in SC. I know a Democrat can't beat Inglis. Inez Tenenbaum is only even with or beating Jim DeMint in the current Senate race because he sponsored a bill for a 23% national sales tax (in lieu of federal income tax) in the House and also says stupid things like Tom Cobourn of OK does.

[IIgnoreNobody]

26. If you're so good at predicting the future, why aren't you rich?

Got any stock tips? They should be worth at least as much as your political prognostications.


The inescapable fact is that you don't have any idea - at all - who the Democratic candidate would be and all you have is a guess as to who the Republican candidate would be, so predicting the result is, well, umm, sorry I can't think of a polite adjective.

[Mike L]

41. he he he............

"If you're so good at predicting the future, why aren't you rich?"

I am, but not from playing the market. Some advice though-- there should be a good rally when the election is over. Then it's back down in the Spring.

You are right that I don't know who the Dem candidate would be--- because there are no big Dem names left in SC. I can't even think of one person who might run.

[Shopaholic]

6. You know South Carolina

no one ever mentioned Strom Thurmond's black daughter until after the old goat had kicked off. Of course, it was the worst kept secret in South Carolina. . . just like Lindsey being gay. Everybody knows and everyone looks the other way. These RW thugs are so damned hypocritical-do as I say-not as I actually do.

[blindpig]

24. true, but

for them to have to deal with it in the media, in public, what fun! No news to the pols but the rank & file christofacsist, kazzat! I'd bet you could depress the repub vote 20% if it was well timed.

[dave123williams]

45. That guy messes up my gaydar...it goes to 11 whenever I see him on tv.

[Raster]

4. Closted gays in collusion with the 'pukes??? No toaster for you!!!

[Warren DeMontague]

8. You CANT Tell Me THESE Guys aren't straight:

[AntiCoup2K4]

16. Wasn't Ari F-LIE-scher gay too?

Our friends at Political Strikes seemed to think so....

[Cassandra]

22. Ari got married right after he changed jobs...

for whatever that's worth.

[Warren DeMontague]

27. No, Just "Fussy"

...Like Dubya.

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[KennedyGuy]

14. Didn't Lindsey grahm once date Laura Ingraham...

That would fuck with any guys head leaving him too fucked up to be gay/straight or otherwise.

[Supersedeas]

15. that's enough to make you switch teams =)

[Democrat 4 Ever]

18. Guess I'm going to throw come cold water, but

I don't give a tinker's damn what their sexual orientation is, I hate these guys for their lies, cheating, and the whoring of their candidate and everything their party stands for just to win an election. Morals mean nothing to these people. Let them out their own people, I hope I am above their cheap, tawdry tricks.

Just goes to show you that gays are just like the rest of the human race, good ones, bad ones, smart, dumb, charitable or money grubbing jerks. I think that is the point that everyone should get - gays are no better, no worse than anyone else. Once we give them that acknowledgment maybe we can move past the "scandal" of being a homosexual.

That said, we all know that the GOP is the party of hypocrisy, why should we be surprised to find it has a whole closet full of "secrets?" I just can't understand how any gay or minority could be in bed with the GOP knowing their stance on them personally. Sorry, seems I full of "rant" today!

[DrFunkenstein]

19. F'n A!!! Well Said!!!

Take your cue from Jon Stewart, when he refused to take a cheap shot at O'Reilly on Crossfire, even for his hypocrisy. It is not what the individual does that is f'ed up, it is the agenda they pursue.

In this case, it seems that we are even attacking people who have not pursued such an agenda.

Thank you, Ky for Kerry, for being a stand-up person.

[tishaLA]

23. I respectfully disagree

Mehlman and McClellen, especially, helped foster this fake controversy about Dear Mary and tried to push a story about nefarious reasons for Sen. Kerry mentioning her name--even though their party tacitly requires them to remain silent about their own sexual orientation.

What's worse is that our party hierarchy plays along with the game, signaling that there is something that might be something embarrassing about their orientation by never mentioning it. Who cares that Mehlman or McClellen are gay? Not me. But I do think they have gotten many of the advantages they now have because of the hard work out and proud LGBT people, like Dear Mary used to be, have accomplished.

[DemBones DemBones]

36. Good points. We are within our rights to question hypocrisy

wherever we find it. No one here is outing these people or suggested these people be outed, merely discussed the report that they will be outed to a party that is not supportive of gays.

Many (most, perhaps) Republicans would condone employment practices that included firing gays and Lesbians or not hiring them to begin with. Obviously, they would also oppose same sex marriage or domestic partnerships.

[dave123williams]

46. Right; particularly when these guys (gals) are trying to f*()k with the

Constitution, to ammend it to enshrine hate. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. Yeah, it's pretty unfathomable---

How one could support a party that, essentially, runs around half the time saying you really don't have a right to exist.. You ought to repent, get cured, or be put to death in some weird biblical fashion.

For the record, I could care less if they're gay, too-- but I certainly think the hypocrisy it points up is relevant.

[hippiechick]

34. Bravo !

Excellent post !

:hippie:

[blm]

20. Ingraham used Graham for cover while she had an affair with Asa Hutchison

who was Lindsey's good friend.

They provided cover for each other back then. This was during impeachment, too, when they were all three spouting sanctimony over the airwaves day and night for months.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Oh. God. Please. Stop.

I don't need these mental images.

[DemBones DemBones]

35. Oh, that's so rich! Lindsey Graham, Laura Ingraham, Asa Hutchinson

all castigating Bill Clinton for his sexual shenanigans while Lindsey "dates" Laura as cover for her affaird with his friend, the married Asa, and, as a trade off, has a temporary beard. They truly should change their name to the Grand Hypocrisy Party.

And we all remember how Newt Gingrich, about to be busted on his affair with an aide and about to divorce wife # 2 to marry the mistress du jour, resigned the Speaker's post mid-impeachment. I'm blanking on the name of the original nominee to replace Newt as Speaker, but it then came out that he was also enjoying the sexual favors of a woman other than his wife. Wait, it was Bob Livingston, wasn't it? So he resigned in disgrace.

Somehow Henry Hyde's past affairs and his child born to a woman he was never married to, also came to light during this time.

You couldn't make this stuff up.

[Stephanie]

28. What about...

[Carla in Ca]

39. Maybe THAT is the 'October' surprise!

n/t

[Touchdown]

42. No!!! We already have Rip Taylor and Richard Simmons

There is no room in the gay club for THAT one. Have you no shame, Sir?

[Stephanie]

47. Well, I have heard some rumors

Not that I would wish him on anybody, but hell, WE don't want him either!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

40. I'm currently reading "Blinded by the Right" and in it,

David Brock talks about what nasty homophobes some of the neocons are, especially Bill Kristol and John Podhoretz (or whatever Norman's son's name is--I don't have the book with me right now).

However, I saw Podhoretz Jr. interviewed about his book about G.W. Bush, and he was so giddy and gushy about Bushboy that I half-expected him to say, "I want to have his children."

He's my candidate for Republican hypocrite most in need of outing.

[Czolgosz]

43. My wife and I went to college with Scott McLellan. Neither of us

would be surprised to hear that he was gay (but for God sakes, don't anyone tell Lynn Cheney -- she'll have a canary!). Where's he been outed?

[BlueNomad]

49. To be honest

I thought he was gay.

[wicket]

48. I thought Drudge had already been outed

But I could be wrong.

[burythehatchet]

50. I;m glad that these guys

are not on "my team" :)

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

51. Dang, seriously

I had Scot McClellan pegged as gay so long ago I seriously thought everyone knew but just didn't....acknowledge it. He sets my gaydar off the charts. It's like when Rosie O'Donnell came out and I was confused and thought "Um, didn't people already KNOW that???"

[onager]

52. Graham Dirt (Thanks, Mom...)

Lindsay Graham comes from the same Upstate corner of South Carolina as John Edwards. And me.

In fact, Graham's house isn't too far from my Mom's. Mom is not a fan of Graham, and shows him only a little less contempt than she does the entire Bu$h Klan. Which is saying a lot.

According to Mom, the first time Graham ran for Congress, he showed up at all the stump speeches etc. with an attractive young blonde woman. Everybody assumed she was either his wife or fi(n)ancee.

Turns out she was his niece.

Next election, he was squiring another blonde around. That was Laura Ingraham.

Local consensus is that it wouldn't take very much to out Mr. Graham.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

53. I always wondered about David Brooks...

...something about him sets the gaydar off.

And he used some gay jargon in his BoBos in Paradise book....

Maybe hes just cool with it, or maybe has bi tendancys.

[wicket]

54. kick

:kick: