SocraticGadfly: Is it time to out GOP gays?

November 05, 2004

Is it time to out GOP gays?

Clearly, Rove and BushCo were strategically successful with using gay marriage fear-mongering as a strategic tool, especially in black and evangelical Hispanic churches.

I’m not gay myself, but …

I think any gay or lesbian who actively worked for Bush’s election, whether through a PAC, the RNC, RNCC, RNSC, Congressional or Congressional committee staff of GOP congressmen riding on Bush’s coattails, etc., should be outed. They aren’t in a position to object, anyway, since they just committed moral slow suicide.

This is war, and it’s year-round, not seasonal. It’s every year, not just one out of four.

If Bush and Rove want to play scorched-earth divide and conquer strategy, there’s only one way to fight back. Lincoln knew that in the Civil War, and part of why he canned McClellan, beyond the man’s slowness, was his namby-pamby ideas on how to wage the war.

I don’t have any contacts at national gay and lesbian rights organizations, nor, above all, at gay-oriented publications, but surely somebody reading this does.

And, any outings need to be done beyond these media. Folks who work for such magazines and newspapers surely have contacts in the mainstream media.

And, if the New York Times won’t run stuff like this, the National Enquirer will. Hell, somebody like Larry Flynt, just like with the Bob Livingston situation, would help stir the pot on this one.

When I tested this on Daily Kos with a poll, 90 percent were in favor of outings.

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