So, is bush spokesmanazi Ken Mehlman GAY OR NOT?

[mopaul]

http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=412

been seein' this guy on my t.v. machine for a few months, harping about family values and morals and how good the war is going, and now he's embroiled in an OUTING. woo woo. i love scandal wherever i can find it.

[ClintonTyree]

1. You know................

it really doesn't matter to me if he IS gay. However, the fact that Republicans have been demonizing gays in their pursuit of power, especially with a Constitutional Ammendment banning gay marriage in the wings, DOES make it an issue. How will the moralists that oh so love their pResident becuase of his Godly characteristics come to grips with this? I guess we'll have to wait and see.............

[SoCalDem]

2. It won't matter, really

the election is over now, and it's a long time til 06.. The fundies have bigger fish to fry now.. They will be concentrating on holding *²'s feet to the fire on the judge thing, so they will not care..

That's the one area they have it all over us.. We ley bygones be bygones.. We let our people promise stuff, and then we don't MAKE them deliver..

By now, even if he is gay, and announces it tomorrow, they would probably just say.. "that's ok..see the repube party is the big tent party"..

[mopaul]

3. as long as he doesn't marry another guy or kiss him in public it's o.k.

he's a bush supporter, so he'll be spared the inquisition

[Swamp Rat]

4. Isn't that Lurch's long lost son?

[mopaul]

5. yooouuuu raaaannnggg?

watching ken on t.v. makes my flesh crawl, in a way lurch never did

[mopaul]

6. KKKomments from KKKen.....

On whether Bush's call for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage will divide the party:

"The president's position - his goal - has not changed. What has changed is the means to accomplish that goal.... When is called into question because of decisions that say the law is no longer operative, all you can do to keep the principle going forward is the constitutional amendment."

On using images of Sept. 11, 2001, in political ads:

"The president will - and the campaign will - handle any discussions about September 11 in an appropriate way, which is in a respectful way.

[Swamp Rat]

7. I take it back and apologize to Lurch!!!

That's one umbafugly monkey!

... the search is on to find a larger jpg of this creature. He's gonna join the triptik of ET reptiles in my collection.

[mopaul]

8. some background on little kkkenny mehlman....

http://www.opednews.com/kall0201_ken_mehlman.htm

If you're wondering who Ken Mehlman is, I'm not surprised. None of the sampling of highly informed pundits I asked today knew who he was. I call that a blind spot. He's the Chair of Bush's presidential campaign, and I assume, former Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Political Affairs, working directly under Karl Rove, who he speaks to and swaps emails with several times or more each day. .Mehlman, 37 years old, also appears to work closely with another denizen of the darkest side of Republican politics-- Grover Norquist. But my first effort at Googling him turned up very, very little, outside of a bunch of anti-semitic paranoid mentions on websites obsessed with the Jews controlling America and George Bush. So I went to the Bush official campaign website and lo and behold, I was spelling his name wrong. It's Mehlman. Still, it's interesting to see that red-neck hate groups don't like him.

Mehlman's speech, which I happened upon while watching C-span, lays out a pretty clear picture of the overt issue strategy Bush intends to stake out in the election. Of course we can expect third party attack dogs to use all the dirty tricks in Pandora's box to go after whichever Democratic primary candidates are in the lead, and finally, after the chosen Democratic candidate. I say Pandora's box because fortunately, so far, Bush's attack surrogates have been pulling off stupidisms-- dirty tricks that bite back, like the Plame outing.

But getting Back to Mehlman and his permission slip strategy, while researching Mehlman's speech, it became clear from the absence of his presence on Google search, that there's a strange BLINDSPOT here. Google "joe trippi" Howard Dean's former campaign chair and you get 31,200 pages from Google. Google Ken Mehlman and you get under 4530 hits.

.....hmmm, he's awfully chummy with norquist and rove?...hmmmmm

[snippy]

9. Maybe that is why Bush walks so funny. n/t

[robcon]

10. There's no scandal here.

mopaul wrote "i love scandal wherever i can find it."

I don't get it. Why is it 'scandalous' for Mehlman to be gay? Outing someone is a despicable act, IMO. The only 'scandal' is if anyone tries to out anyone.

[Unstuck In Time]

12. For the repugs, being gay is scandalous.

From our side of the line that divides this country, the scandal is that he is a hypocrite, and a dangerous one at that. A gay man actvively leading the effort to harm gay and lesbian citizens MUST be outed. To turn a blind eye would simply be wrong.

[greekspeak]

11. OH...MY....GOD...I CANNOT believe Laura wore THAT to a fundraiser

My god somebody tell her that plaid is SO like 1986.


Sorry I had to caption that picture. beep beeep Beep BEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEP....sorry for that. My gaydar was just going off. Nothing to see here. Move along.

[mopaul]

13. i was hoping someone had their gaydar on....

cause this guy is a real slimeball turncoat asshole hypocrite.

[ventvon]

14. No, he's actually quite famous

He's Bob, the enzyte guy.

At least that's who he looks like to me, lol. :D

[newyawker99]

17. Hi ventvon!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[ruggerson]

15. Cute muscle boy he ain't

[Mr_Spock]

16. Everyone is gay!

Or at least some song says that. Gay republicans are a strange lot though - I know several and I can't understand their thinking. Just because their parents are repuke's, they are due to loyalty. They won't allow themselves to be completely free in the land of the free. I guess it's their choice, I just couldn't live like that if it were me...

[mopaul]

18. and chickens just LOVE colonel sanders.....

i don't get it either