Some Seek 'Pink Purge' in the GOP-- could it happen?

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-gaygop18oct18,0,2662938.story?coll=la-headlines-politics

WASHINGTON — In recent years, the Republican Party aimed to broaden its appeal with a "big-tent" strategy of reaching out to voters who might typically lean Democratic. But now a debate is growing within the GOP about whether the tent has become too big — by including gays whose political views may conflict with the goals of the party's powerful evangelical conservatives.

Some Christians, who are pivotal to the GOP's get-out-the-vote effort, are charging that gay Republican staffers in Congress may have thwarted their legislative agenda. There even are calls for what some have dubbed a "pink purge" of high-ranking gay Republicans on Capitol Hill and in the administration.

The long-simmering tension in the GOP between gays and the religious right has erupted into open conflict at a sensitive time, just weeks before a midterm election that may cost Republicans control of Congress.

"The big-tent strategy could ultimately spell doom for the Republican Party," said Tom McClusky, chief lobbyist for the Family Research Council, a Christian advocacy group. "All a big-tent strategy seems to be doing is attracting a bunch of clowns."

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On cnn I just saw Patrick Sammon of the log cabin republicans, (who no doubt likes bush because he has lots of money and he doesn't want the Democrats taxing him to death), say that THERE IS NO organized republican pink purge going on, he says it is merely a rumor.

[SharonAnn]

1. I thought it would be a "lavendar" purge

[Drum]

2. Tag this for the Pro-Outing crew,

and listen for how this door-swinging-both-ways is gonna be a good thing.

And the next group They come for will be who?


:shrug:

:eyes:

[Philosoraptor]

3. the disabled, the intellectuals, the dissenters, the writers, the artists

and then everybody else

[ComerPerro]

4. This is much different than outing

outing gay Republicans exposes hypocrites.

This is the Republican party saying that homosexuals are no longer welcome...

[Philosoraptor]

6. no more log cabin republicans, no more david drier or ken mehlman

[mondo joe]

5. It's a great thing.

Split the GOP elite from their base.

Deprive them of the asset of closeted gay agents.

[Kahuna]

14. They're already coming for homosexuals via a constitutional amendment..

Who deserves the protection here? Priorities!!!

[sandnsea]

23. Injustice, that's how you wake this stupid country up

The Talibornagains overreached with Schiavo and they'll overreach with gays. This is NOT where America is at. The more Republicans choose these religious nutballs, the smaller their party will get. If only we had a grown up Green Party to move in from the left, our two party system would be Greens and Democrats in short order.

[ronnykmarshall]

7. But, but, ....

Mary Cheney and the Log Cabin say it's OK to be gay and republican.

Serves the assholes right. Fuck them and elephant they road in on.

[whistle]

8. Pink means communists, republican nut jobs are moving in from

...the extreme right wing John Birch Society who see every failure as due to Marxists and Bolsheviks, hell these people have been vocal about Bush being way too liberal and pink.

<snip>
John Birch Society
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The John Birch Society is an Americanist organization founded in 1958 to fight what it saw as growing threats to the Constitution of the United States especially a perceived communist infiltration and to support free enterprise. It promotes a conspiracy theory of history and has been marginalized within the conservative movement since the 1960s.

Based in Appleton, Wisconsin, the society describes itself as "a membership-based organization dedicated to restoring and preserving freedom under the United States Constitution." It says that members come from all walks of life and are active in all 50 states via local chapters. Its mission is to achieve "Less Government, More Responsibility, and — With God's Help — a Better World."

The JBS was formed as an educational organization and does not endorse candidates. It was named after John Birch, a United States military intelligence officer and Baptist missionary in World War II who was killed in 1945 by armed supporters of the Communist Party of China, and whom the JBS describes as "the first American victim of the Cold War." His parents approved of the society. <More>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

<further reading if your stomach can take it here>

http://watch.pair.com/jbs-cnp.html

http://www.jbs.org/

[Sinti]

11. I figured "pink" would have referred to the pink triangle in Nazi death

camps, and commies were "reds". I'm behind the times or something. :shrug:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle

[Fovea]

9. The Republican closet

is a place where crypto-homo-eroticism rubs shoulders, as it were, with skeletons of all shapes and sizes.

I, were I a republican, would be quite careful of how I treated my party's out'ed pols. They have the power to drag a skeleton or three out into the light with them.

[Philosoraptor]

12. they ALL know what is in everybody's closet up there

that's how a lot of them got to power, knowing embarassing things about one another.

[Philosoraptor]

10. conservative churches should also purge the Homosexuals

and the deviant hetero adulterers, and those who chew gum in church, and the not pious enough, and of course the witches.

[Philosoraptor]

13. the witches! Let's get THE WITCHES out of the GOP!

I suggest trial by dunking of course.

[Philosoraptor]

15. the repubs are collapsing like the Twin Towers

[Philosoraptor]

16. say it with me repub larry craig-- PINK PURGE! PINK PURGE!

[Marr]

17. HAHA- oh right. The problem is that they're too accepting.

No, the problem is that GOP recruits with authoritarian and hate-focussed rhetoric. They attract the nuts, the perverts, and the crooks. That's the problem.

[Philosoraptor]

18. clowns not welcome in their party either

how can you even have a decent party without clowns?

[verse18]

19. Well, consider their "base"

Fundie, lying, sexually repressed, misogynistic, greedy, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, sexist, delusional, brain-washed sheep.

The repugs messed up when they allowed THEM to be with US.

[tanyev]

20. As if all these Republican staffers just recently came in to the

party through the big-tent strategy. Puh-leeze.

[EC]

21. Wouldn't that just prove our point that their "marriage amendments"

are really gay baiting and hateful and discriminatory? That they all are really homophobics afraid of "catching it"?

[conscious evolution]

22. Can you say ...

'Night of the Long Knives'?

[Philosoraptor]

24. I'll bet things are getting a bit testy over there

[Philosoraptor]

25. somewheeeeere, over the sen-ate,