Comments on Dino Rossi Likes His Problems Like He Likes His Men: Big & Hard
First hint was the problems being "too big and too hard."
Obviously code.
Eh. He needs to lose some weight and get a new face. He works in some pictures, but for the most part: vomit city.
You should do what I do, Dan.
Don't watch television.
Yes bigots, do make fun of Rossi for being/or not being gay, with Dan's approval. In the future, when Savage rails about similar attacks on gays, don't forget to point out he's an advocate of it.
Nothing is too big or too hard for Dino Rossi.
How quaint. Savage pretending to be hip and edgy again.
@4: It's only okay when you're attacking someone who is a homophobic hypocrite. It's called the "Ted Haggard Clause" or the "Larry Craig Exception."
@6: Dan Savage is hip and edgy!
While it's the only instance of it that I know of, Democrats have gay baited their Republican opponents before. And I guess it worked.
Gee Mr. Savage you sure took a long time to say absolutely nothing important! Why don’t you attack Mr. Rossi on issues? And if you think I am homophobic check out my website.
I don't like it. This could be a Coup Fourré for Rossi.
Dan, you're doing it again.
If a behavior is wrong when perpetrated against one group of people, it is still wrong when perpetrated against another group. Even if the perpetrator finds it hilarious or somehow poetic.
Perspective, Dan. I don't know why, but I used to think you had it. You're turning bitter in middle age. It's not becoming.
@7: So gay baiting is ok some of the time. Bigots will love to hear that. And did you actually read the story you link to? Nothing in there proves (yes, implies, insinuates and suggests, as most shallow Stranger reporting does) Rossi's a hypocrite. But apparently that's enough for you and Dan. Me, I'd like proof - some, even a tiny bit - that I wasn't myself acting like a hetrosexual hypocrite.
Kelly O's commercial is awesome. I love the dance music and rainbow background at the end. Sweet.
Did I miss that session at the water cooler? Are there really rumors about Dino, or is Dan just basing this on appearance?
I do not like or care or actually even listened to any of his policies. Actually none of candidates for that matter but Dino Rossi I'd hit it.
@8, don't forget Edwards and Kerry repeatedly bringing up Cheney's love for his gay daughter.
@8
I think Democrats know a thing or two about gay-baiting:
I'm with you in disgust at that litany of Republican attacks, which are disgusting and an insult to ordinary decency as well as to gays, but I can't follow you to gay-bait Rossi. Rossi's problem isn't his mincy face or fruit flavors, it's his contempt for common sense, good government and ultimately the voters.
Is it just me or does he look a little like John C. Reilly? I don't know what that means, but I think it has to do with the nose forehead.
@ 12
Sense of humor much?
Ever read satire? Rossi is a family.
BTW - Dino, call me.
-Sen. Larry Craig
@16, I see what you mean, but that was a little different. That wasn't a baseless insinuation based on any lesbian stereotypes Mary Cheney happened to fit. It was the truth. Of course Kerry and Edwards were taking advantage of it, but they were using the truth as a weapon against those make gays out to be dangerous. And of course, since they're on my side, they get a little more leeway with me.
What's this "GOP" nonsense? There's no "GOP" party, that's a nickname. He's a Republican.
Reasons for selecting Dino:
1. Just like GWB, we'd have a gay governor in the closet.
2. Just like GWB, he would destroy our state economy and loot it for his comrades in the GOP Party Elite.
3. He brings the crazy to Republicrat.
Is it not wrong to allege things without proof?
Too many adjectives; did not read
There are many reasons to mock Dino, but being sorta kinda swishy isn't one of them.
I'm not a fan of this idea, and I think there is a good chance it will backfire on you some time in the future.
Unless, of course, he actually is a closet homo, a la Larry Craig. Then trash him all you want for being a fucking hypocrite. But lets have a little more evidence than a possible swish.
Dan,
LOL at the descriptions in paragraph 2. I believe that passage originally referred to Liberace?
However, you're wrong to attribute gender-baiting specifically to *Republicans*. It is a standard trope of the mainstream press corps. Maureen Dowd, for example, has called Obama "Scarlett O'Hara," "Obambi," "a Hollywood starlet," and "Legally Blonde" and I think she, not Limbaugh, actually originated "Breck Girl" for Edwards. She also said Al Gore is "so feminized he's practically lactating" and imagined him singing "I Feel Pretty" to himself in the mirror. Not to mention Hillary Clinton!
This post is as befuddled and reactionary as a Katy Perry song.
So what I'm taking from this is that homophobia is now okay, when deployed for politically expedient purposes?
Let me turn that over in my brain some and get back to you.
Too pudgy; if he were really gay he should try to lose some weight.
There aren't enough graduate schools in Clinical Psych in the nation to crank out enough Cognitive-Behavior Psychs to fully engage Savage's cognitive distortions. What a lightweight.
@20 Indeed. Your comments left me rollin' in the aisle.
To paraphrase L. Bentsen, I know satire and let me tell you No. 20, you're no satirist.
@24 - not when they run for public office, apparently.
I googled "Who is Valentino Rossi dating?" and all I can say is, I wish I was gay like that.
Plus, if you had 10 Valentino Rossis, they could easily take over Capitol Hill.
SO... We should not vote for anyone that acts gay. Because they might be gay. And thats bad. Understood. Duly noted.
Notice how he never says, "Republican?" That word never shows up in his commercials. It's not in the Voter's Pamphlet. Just GOP. Why is that, I wonder?
Seeking attention, Dan may have cost Gregoire her election bid.
Let's hope media outside Seattle doesn't pick this trash up.
By the way, I thought the whole point of sexual liberation is WHO THE HELL CARES?
And Dan, as the sexual matters expert, does not know good looking men in their younger days all cross the line. No big deal.
The piece is slander, even in a political race.
Seems like your typically effiminate straight Seattle-ish man to me. Gay shadows, Dan. Gay shadows.
Okay, I'm back.
This is still nonsensical and asinine.
You don't need the Democrats to gay bait, the whispering campaign can start here a la Santorum.
I still think he looks like that creeper from the Enzyte commercials. If I wasn't already against him for his views on women's rights, I'd be against him for consistently creeping me out.
Everyone looks silly in political commercials. The Democrats shouldn't gay bait---ever heard of "taking the high road"?
No manly eyebrows, looks waxed
It's about time that someone other than a welfare giving bleeding heart liberal had a chance to win in this fag loving state. Washington is an embarrassment to the country and should lock up 99% of you left-wing loons who call King County home.
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