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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

It’s Just So Sad

posted by on September 2 at 11:58 AM

The Log Cabin Republicans are hosting a luncheon—“Big Tent Event”—at the University Club of Saint-Paul. The room seems just as stuffy as the assembled gay Republicans. Sorry, cheap shot. I’m sure some of the guys—and they’re mostly guys—in suits and ties know how to get down and dirty. But… the room is stuffy and compared to the bejewelled revelers at the Xcel Center, so are the guys sitting around the tables. And honestly? There are a lot of empty seats and the best the Log Cabin could do, guest-wise, seems to a handful of state legislators and few members of the Republican National Committee.

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Someone is speaking when we arrive—Tom Morgan, a member of the Republican National Committee from California. He’s not gay, just an “ally.”

“Your endorsement of John McCain will spread far and wide and should be extremely helpful in California,” Morgan says. John McCain is expected to lose by roughly twenty percentage points in California and somehow I don’t think the Log Cabin endorsement is going to turn the tide. “We are Americans,” Morgan continues, “we have so much more in common as Americans than we do with so many of the other peoples of the word.” Uh… where is this going, Mr. Morgan?

Morgan points out that that gays and lesbians in other countries face “outright hostility,” which is much, much worse than the plain-old hostility gays and lesbians face here at home. So, you know, it really sucks to be gay in Saudi Arabia, so we you so totally risk voting for John McCain!

The next speaker is Patrick Sammon, President of the Log Cabin Republicans.

“We are making progress. Four years ago we were meeting in New York City and the nominee of our party was pushing the federal marriage amendment… this year we have an inclusive nominee.”

You do? Really? What’s his name?

Sammon said in his remarks that gay Republicans frequently get yelled at at dinner parties, which is proof that really they love their party and country.

Sammon and I spoke for a few minutes. He seems like a nice guy. Please don’t yell at him at dinner parties, Democrats. Talk sense to him, yes. Maybe try to fuck a little sense into him. But please don’t yell at him, okay?

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1

They're probably getting their heads bashed in - the major media outside are being attacked by the cops as anarchist Libertarians run rampant destroying property and Gwen Ifill of PBS McNeil Lehrer News Hour is tear gassed.

This is so 1968 - but this time it's the Republicants that are incompetent.

Posted by Will in Seattle | September 2, 2008 12:05 PM
2

Shit in your hand and throw it. Make funny faces while you're pushing the mud. Make a vicious face while you toss it.

You'll make every news channel. I promise.

Posted by my ideas are amazing | September 2, 2008 12:10 PM
3

I'm sure they'll be much more fun when they're liquored up at Camp/Jetset/Saloon later.

Posted by Stpaulguy | September 2, 2008 12:24 PM
4

The flag to fag ratio is alarmingly high in that room.

Posted by kinaidos | September 2, 2008 12:26 PM
5

Add this to a long list of gay myths debunked.

The world needs to know that not all gay men have fashion sense, not all lesbians like lentil soup and not all queers have the sense to not support a party that would like to legislate them out of existence.

also, OT, where the fuck is ECB? On vacation? Comatose? On sabbatical? Canned? Martyred in the name of St Hillary?

Her blog is kaput; she apparently hasn't paid to keep her domain name...

Weird.

Posted by michael strangeways | September 2, 2008 12:29 PM
6

I don't yell at the Log Cabins...I laugh and laugh. So does Tim Gill.

Posted by DENVEROPOLIS | September 2, 2008 12:46 PM
7

I would totally do Patrick Sammon though, he is kinda cute for a Nazi.

http://online.logcabin.org/assets/images/Sammon-P-headshot-12-06-low-rez.jpg

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | September 2, 2008 12:49 PM
8

Where's this 'big tent event'? In Morgan's pants?

Posted by E | September 2, 2008 12:56 PM
9

eww@7. he looks like a sheepish rat. looks the part. whatevs, man.

Posted by ellarosa | September 2, 2008 12:57 PM
10

I've never understood Log Cabin Republicans at all. I don't yell at them at dinner parties but I wouldn't fuck one of 'em even if he were the most beautiful man on earth and was kneeling at my feet begging me for it. I just would feel too dirty fucking a traitor to the cause.

Posted by Tom | September 2, 2008 12:59 PM
11

You should have interviewed some of the attendees. I wonder how many of them would have gone "I dunno what this is, some guy gave me a ticket and said 'free lunch'."

Posted by K | September 2, 2008 1:03 PM
12

@7 he's not so much a nazi as a kapo.

Posted by douglas | September 2, 2008 1:04 PM
13

@5: Seriously. Where is ECB?!?!?! Her take on all this Palin nonsense would be amazing.

Posted by Original Monique | September 2, 2008 1:05 PM
14

Are LCRs tops by default?

Posted by Ziggity | September 2, 2008 1:12 PM
15

Tops? Are you kidding? They spend their whole lives begging for punishment.

Posted by Fnarf | September 2, 2008 1:24 PM
16

@7: He has a weirdly Savage look about him.

Posted by rob | September 2, 2008 1:27 PM
17

Is this speaker new to American and John McCain? How could anyone even awake for part of a day not remember that McCain is against gay marriage and civil unions, voted for the Defense of Marriage act and still says that Don't Ask Don't Tell is a great policy? Where is the inclusion--that you money grubbing repubs got a tiny room that you couldn't even fill at the RNC?? Get a life, open your eyes and se the hate.

Posted by Rev. J. Greg Lawson | September 2, 2008 1:34 PM
18

Why do banquets always have such ugly chairs?

Posted by Ed | September 2, 2008 2:01 PM
19

In honor of a Log Cabin Republican gathering... the fabulous musical number from American Dad.


Posted by leek | September 2, 2008 3:00 PM
20

But then again, how could it not be argued that the gay voice of the LCR within the GOP fosters some discussion amongst the rank and file, which brings about a little understanding, which brings about a little change.
It seems unnecessary to negate a whole political party entirely, considering that ideally the party of Lincoln should be as inclusive as its original principals.

Posted by raindrop | September 2, 2008 3:05 PM
21

Because mainstream Republicans don't pay the slightest bit of attention to Log Cabin Republicans, except to gain assurances that they still value money more than they do equal rights.
The Republican party has effected zero positive change for gays.

Posted by Chris in Tampa | September 2, 2008 3:35 PM
22

The protesters should have flown in hometown girl, Chi Chi LaRue to entertain and riot...

Posted by michael strangeways | September 2, 2008 3:44 PM
23

@21: Yes, but some do pay attention. I think it's better to make a little dent than no dent at all. It certainly isn't causing any damage to gay rights.

Posted by raindrop | September 2, 2008 3:53 PM
24

hahah how sad...they dont want them and still hang around. IF YOU SEE...they are all white, nto a single latino, black, asian or any other "minority"...just a bunch of self haters ...sad, sad. They dont stand with their LGBT community. They stand for the republicans values which are self hate.

Posted by LCRMorons | September 2, 2008 5:49 PM
25

These homocons are a joke. And speaking of walking jokes, where were the well known apologists like Andrew Sullivan and Chris Crain?

Posted by Justin | September 3, 2008 11:28 AM

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