The homophobia on the right is so bad that it has even appalled Jennifer Rubin. Richard Grenell was recently hired by the Romney campaign to be a spokesman on foreign policy issues. But, because Mr. Grenell is openly gay, this did not sit well with a lot of conservative Republicans. The backlash was so strong, in fact, that the Romney campaign simply didn’t use Grenell. He was kept under wraps when controversy arose around the president’s Usama bin-Laden advertisement, and he was never used on conference calls with the press. The Romney campaign didn’t even defend him publicly. So, Grenell just quit the campaign.
Even if you might want to give Romney credit for hiring him in the first place (after all, the idiot used to work for John Bolton), the lack of support and the attempt to hide him are pretty damning examples of cowardice.
It is beyond my wildest imagination how any gay person could be a Republican. You must really be into self loathing to allow yourself to be shit upon 24 hours a day by people who despise how you were born. Or the fact that you were even born at all.
This.
Also, for anyone not terrified of Teh Gay, it’s far more significant that the supposedly pivoting-to-the-center Romney hired a John Bolton retread to represent him on foreign policy. Look at the people Romney is hiring for his campaign. There is no evidence – none – that he would govern as anything other than a willing tool of Wingnuttistan.
All the politicians and Village pundits basking in Mitt’s Etch-a-Sketch campaign are conspiring in a massive lie. Romney would not, repeat not, govern as a moderate. He’ll just play one on TV for the next six months.
That’s why I mentioned it.
I see a lot of people saying stupid shit about the president but I am not seeing a whole lot of people in the so-called neutral corporate media who are carrying Mitt’s water. They pretty much report that he’s a dick and he’s doing it wrong.
They pretty much report that he’s a dick and he’s doing it wrong.
Of course, because Mittens learned the wrong lesson from Cranky McSame. What’s funny, in a black humor way, is that W. hated the press just as much as Mittens but fed them beer and BBQ, just like Cranky, and they ate it up like the lapdogs they want to be. Maybe someone can tell me. I know Mittens can’t drink booze, being a Mormon and all, but can’t he ply the corporate media with it?
Not supposed to. Wine is a mocker and strong drink a lunatic (or brawler, or raging, or whatever your version of Psalms says).
Deliberately cContributing to the degeneration of an individual would be anathema to a truly practicing Mormon.
Won’t happen. At least not until October.
This is a shorthand synopsis of what the Romney presidency would be like.
He has no principles, no ideas, and no core. He is a piece of spaghetti.
Nice.
You nailed it.
Dear Leader Grover:
“All we have to do is replace Obama. … We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don’t need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. … We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don’t need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate. […]
Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared.”
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You have insulted pasta, Sir!
May the Flying Spaghetti Monster forgive him his sins, for he knows not what he does.
Romney doesn’t appear to be familiar with the Republican Party or he would never have hired the guy in the first place.
A good observation. Romney is much more familiar with the financial world where connections help a lot but the primary emphasis is on delivering results.