Notice HRC has quietly removed LIEberman from their list of endorsements?

[Ian David]

Although, I think Lincoln Chafee is a bad choice to endorse.

Bob Casey , Pennsylvania (D)
Tammy Duckworth , Illinois (D)
Amy Klobuchar , Minnesota (D)
Sherrod Brown , Ohio (D)
Patricia Madrid , New Mexico (D)
Ron Klein , Florida (D)
Lincoln Chafee , Rhode Island (R)
Melissa Bean , Illinois (D)
Christopher Shays , Connecticut (R)
Debbie Stabenow , Michigan (D)

https://www.hrc.org/candidateFundraising/index.cfm?fuseaction=candidateList&fullList=1&cfid=18858126&cftoken=45942313

Interestingly, The Log Cabin Republicans endorse both Chafee and Shays, but have their own ideas of who a gay-friendly Republican is:

Gov. Linda Lingle (R-HI)-
Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R-CT)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA)
Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI)
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Jan Ting (R-DE)
Rep. Charles Bass (R-NH)
Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL)
Rep. Mary Bono (R-CA)
Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE)
Darlene Curley (R-ME)
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL
Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ)
Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-PA)
Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD)
Peter Hankwitz (R-CA)
Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-CT)
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL)
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)
Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA)
Tom O’Donoghue (R-VA)
Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-OH)
Martha Rainville (R-VT)
Rep. Joe Schwarz (R-MI)
Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT)
Rep. Rob Simmons (R-CT)
Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY)

http://online.logcabin.org/talking_points/2006-endorsements.html

And some comments from some sick-and-twisted, self-hating, so-called "Gay Republican Conservative" aka "Gay Patriots:"


Chafee’s Victory, Log Cabin & the Club for Growth
Posted by GayPatriotWest at 4:42 pm - September 13, 2006.
Filed under: Log Cabin (Republicans), 2006 Elections, Conservative Ideas

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Now that Patrick is gone, I’m concerned that the interim leaders of the organization are not focused on building bridges to the GOP and conservative organizations. While I share the group’s delight in the victory of the Lincoln Chafee, the most liberal Senate Republican, in yesterday’s Rhode Island Republican, primary I wouldn’t call the Ocean State’s Junior Senator a “mainstream Republican.”

Unlike Joe Lieberman whose votes put him in the middle of the Senate’s Democratic caucus, Chafee’s votes put him far to the left of his GOP colleagues, even to the left of a handful of Democrats. That said, while my views are closer to those of his erstwhile GOP opponent Steve Laffey, if I lived in Rhode Island, I would have voted for Chafee because he has a better chance of holding the seat for my party in one of the most Democratic states in the union.

Chafee’s victory shows that our party does not have a litmus test for membership. While Connecticut Democrats rejected their 2000 Vice-presidential nominee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and Rhode Island Republicans stood behind this Republican who is far from the party’s mainstream.

However, Club for Growth, a conservative advocacy group (which I have supported in the past) which backs GOP candidates “who support limited government and lower taxes” spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to defeat Chafee, largely because of his support for bigger government and increased federal regulation. While I think their money could have been better spent helping pro-growth Republicans in tough races against Democrats, given Chafee’s record, they had good reason to back Laffey.

More:
http://gaypatriot.net/2006/09/13/chafees-victory-log-cabin-the-club-for-growth



Also:


What Left-wing Moonbats and Gay-baiters Have in Common
Posted by GayPatriotWest at 10:32 pm - December 24, 2005.
Filed under: Blogging

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LOL….and that, Ian, shows how completely out of touch HRC is with reality. Chafee and Shays are indeed worthy folks to support, but HRC is only deluding itself if it thinks they can put out “supportive” press releases to curry “moderate support” and then go bashing all Republicans at public events. In a metro area like Dallas - Fort Worth that is majority Republican, highly religious, and has several gay City Council members, a lesbian county sheriff, nearly a transgendered Council member, and two of the most progressive nondiscrimination ordinances in the country, Solomonese and his proxies standing up there bashing Republicans and religious people as all being ignorant homophobes is the height of stupidity and arrogance.

Meanwhile, let’s deal with this question here:

but he is a man who actively works to strip you of your rights. Does the Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriage ring any bells with you? How can you collaborate with your enemy - someone who you know full well hates you & everything you are about?

I shall answer to that in the same way I did to DrDClaw; Ian, how do you feel about the hypothesis expressed there that anyone who supports antigay constitutional amendments “hates (gays) and everything that (gays) are about”? Are you willing to say categorically that that applies to ANYONE, or will you claim that Democrats who support the same are “pro-gay” and “gay-supportive”, like the “gay community” this writer rails about does?

You see, Ian, I for one am tired of being berated as “antigay” by people like Joe Solmonese and the Elizabeth Birch cabal who defend giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to people who support the FMA. I am sick of being told I’m “disgusting” by people who spent less fighting antigay initiatives than they did praising and promoting candidates who supported them.

GPW, GP, myself, and everyone here has made it damn clear that we did not support the FMA or MPA OR the state constitutional amendments. Meanwhile, sniping trolls like this and Solmonese who wasted MILLIONS of gay dollars and time on hate campaigns that only succeeded in channeling money to those who supported state constitutional amendments and the FMA and calling them “pro-gay” and “gay-supportive” have the gall to tell us to “shut up”.

This is more than an “unfortunate tone”. This is a full-scale hate attack by an irrational bigot and puppet who’s desperately looking for a reason to rationalize his support of homophobes and blaming it on others. And unfortunately, he’s not unique in the gay community; indeed, he predominates.

Comment by North Dallas Thirty — December 28, 2005 @ 11:39 am - December 28, 2005

More:
http://gaypatriot.net/2005/12/24/what-left-wing-moonbats-and-right-wing-gay-baiters-have-in-common

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Hmm... they just phonebanked me 15 minutes ago....

...looking for cash, as always. I told the banker I didn't follow thru with an earlier pledge to the HRC PAC 'cause I understood they were supporting Lieberschnitzel, and I was a bigtime Lamont supporter, and couldn't help Lieberama because of the overriding issue of the war.

She said they were *still* supporting Lieberaci, but he was only one of hundreds of candidates to whose aid my contribution would go.

I questioned Liebensraum's commitment to GLBT issues, esp. marriage equality.She pleaded ignorance.

Long story short: I gave her 25 bucks. But felt bad about it. There are about 600,000 dead Iraqis in the ME that didn't have to die... because of the Liebster and Liebsterism. Plus he speaketh with forked tongue on GLBT issues.

So what's the story? Did HRC un-endorse Lieberman?

[Ian David]

2. Either the fundraiser was mistaken, or else they still support him.

They're just not doing any more direct fund raising for him, I guess.

[cboy4]

3. I don't listen to a word the HRC says when it comes to politics!

Some of those names on the list, including Schwarzenegger in California are outrageous.

Every gay group I know of, with the exception of the morans with Log Cabin, is endorsing Phil Angelides for governor.

HRC is far, far from perfect but it's the best we have right now.

[Ian David]

4. Arnold is not on The HRC list. He's on Log Cabin Republickers. n/t

[cboy4]

5. D'OH! Maybe I should learn to read perhaps? That sounds more

like it....I was thinking, the HRC is supporting Mary Bono also?? :wtf:

Thanks for the correction.