Closeted Gay Republicans and a Party in Political Free-Fall

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odonnell/closeted-gay-republicans-_b_31040.html

The LA Times has outed Kirk Fordham today. He will not be the last closeted gay Republican outed by this scandal.

Today's NY Times has a chart that outlines the "key communications" in the House of Representatives about Mark Foley's inappropriate contact with pages. More than one of the names in the chart, which includes Kirk Fordham, are rumored to be closeted gay Republicans who have been working at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

They have been looking at their names in print for the last couple of days and no doubt fearing for their futures in a Party that is in political free-fall.

Are ambitious closeted gay Republican officials, the most reliable people Speaker Hastert could have delegated the Foley problem to last year? Obviously not. Heat on a closeted gay Republican in the House is heat on all closeted gay Republicans in the House. The most innocent Foley emails were enough to worry the parents of the recipient. They were enough to worry the closeted gay Republicans too. But the closeted gay Republicans were perfectly positioned in the House to make the problem disappear.

Now two Republican staffers are locked in a credibility contest: it's Kirk Fordham v. Scott Palmer, Hastert's chief of staff. Palmer flatly denies that Fordham warned him about Foley. Hastert's political life depends entirely on Scott Palmer's credibility. I can't find anyone in Washington who knows Palmer who thinks his credibility can survive this test.

So when does Mehlman get officially outed? Karma's a bitch Repukes!

[sutz12]

1. Another parallel?

Weren't the Nazis filled with members of high rank that were "fascinated" by homosexuality?

[Tyo]

3. That's right, and the similarity goes deeper

If you were gay and Nazi and were reasonably discreet about the gay part I think you did just fine. If you were gay and not Nazi, well... It was a pink triangle and eventually off to the death camp. While the camps aren't up and running here. Yet. There is the same distinction drawn by the Rethugs between "their" gays and the rest of us.

[TygrBright]

2. I've said it before & I'll say it again...

...this can be nothing but good for America in the long run, no matter how much pain it causes individuals in the short run.

The only GOPpies who can count to three seem to be the closeted (and not-so-closeted, or at least 'peeking out') gays. If the Party engages in a suicidal bloody purge to placate its homophobe nutjob base, they will be crippling themselves.

If they DON'T give in to the 'urge to purge,' they'll lose the nutjobs, thereby crippling themselves again.

I can't decide which I prefer, actually, but either way it results in a cleaner, less corrupt, decenter America.

happily,
Bright