Michaelangelo Signorile's lastest column--if you didn't loathe the Log

[joeybee12]

Cabin Repukes before, you will now!


http://www.signorile.com/articles/nyp138.html

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After all the homophobia that spewed during campaign 2004, the Log Cabin Republicans amazingly continue to grovel before the Bush White House, even as Karl Rove has decided they’re not even worth licking the dirt from under his toe nails. A lot of people thought that Log Cabin’s refusal to endorse George W. Bush during the election campaign was some sort of turning point for the group. I remember running into a gay Democratic fundraiser at the Log Cabin’s “Big Tent” event during the Republican National Convention, at the Bryant Park Grill in Manhattan.

“This is a new Log Cabin,” he told me. “This is a big deal that they are not going to endorse him. Finally we’re seeing the group having matured and realizing that it can’t just be used. That’s why I’ve helped them raise money and am supporting them, even though I’m a Democrat.”

I rolled my eyes, knowing that any spine on the part of Log Cabin was a mere aberration. And here we are, just few months after Rove and Bush used the federal marriage amendment to gay-bash their way to re-election, and the Log Cabinites have announced they’re offering to help Bush push through his draconian social security privatization plan – perhaps because they’re quietly on the dole from the multinational corporations that would benefit under the plan. The Bushies are so desperate to light a fire under their dud of a “reform” plan – with Bush on a 60-day, 60-stop tour – you’d think they’d take all the help they can get. But so far, the only use they’ve had for gays in this effort has been to once again make them into Willie Hortons, using images of gay men to smear groups that oppose Bush. And that underscores how absolutely devoid of integrity and starved for validation the Log Cabinites really are.

Last month, in the same week in which the Republican front group USA Next ran ads using a gay Oregon couple to tar the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP) because it didn’t support Bush’s plan, the Log Cabinites told ABC News they were going to aid Bush in breathing life into his dead-on-arrival privatization plan.

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[skylarmae]

2. gay is the antithesis of republican - now more than ever

I don't know who these so-called Log Cabin people are, but they are fooling themselves into believing they are republican of any ilk..

[northzax]

3. perfectly logical for LCR to support privatisation

first off, they tend to be affluent.
second off, since they oppose gay marriage and civil unions, it is the only way for a couple to share retirement.