Comments on: Gay GOP group barred from sponsoring CPAC

By: Bruce Majors

Bruce Majors — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:08:21 +0000

By the way, calling tea partiers right wing betrays limited, conventional, incumbentist/two party duopoly thinking.

Polls show that the tea partiers are about 49% socially liberal/libertarian: cato-at-liberty.org/the-tea-partys-other-half/

and currently bloggers on the left predict the tea party will lead to defense cuts: comehomeamerica.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/tea-party-crushing-defense-hawks-on-military-budget/

By: Bruce Majors

Bruce Majors — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:07:35 +0000

By the way, calling tea partiers right wing betrays limited, conventional, incumbentist/two party duopoly thinking.

Polls show that the tea partiers are about 49% socially liberal/libertarian: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-tea-partys-other-half/

and currently bloggers on the left predict the tea party will lead to defense cuts: http://comehomeamerica.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/tea-party-crushing-defense-hawks-on-military-budget/

By: Bruce Majors

Bruce Majors — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:58:58 +0000

And if you don’t know who Rick Rosendall is, you can see him doing yeomen PR work for the gay community in a youtube I have saved on my blog, where he tells a reporter covering an event he is at to “drop dead” and then hisses at her over and over: bighomocon.blogspot.com/2011/07/another-tragic-homosexually-related.html. Rick has been defending the increasingly unpopular state schools (40% of DC kids now in charters with 5% leaving every year) because he is part of the slave trade (or one of its flaks) in black kids sold to the educrat cartel in exchange for Democratic Party donations. I don’t know that Rick’s shilling for human trafficking can be defended just because he hopes to get some rainbow crumbs from his political masters. (Supporting race slavery sounds pretty right wing to me Rick. Heil!)

Rick and “Talking Points Memo” are performing the same function; smears in place of argument. Notice that Rick didn’t answer any of my detailed comments about the holes in the Blade article or the parochialism of the postings in reply to it.

If you want to know about me you can also read an article by a former Talking Points Memo journalist written when working at The Daily Beast:
thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-28/bruce-majors-an-unlikely-tea-partier/

By: Bruce Majors

Bruce Majors — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:57:15 +0000

And if you don’t know who Rick Rosendall is, you can see him doing yeomen work for the gay community in a youtube I have saved on my blog, where he tells a reporter covering an event he is at to “drop dead” and then hisses at her over and over: http://bighomocon.blogspot.com/2011/07/another-tragic-homosexually-related.html. Rick has been defending the increasingly unpopular state schools (40% of DC kids now in charters with 5% leaving every year) because he is part of the slave trade (or one of its flaks) in black kids sold to the educrat cartel in exchange for Democratic Party donations. I don’t know that Rick’s shilling for human trafficking can be defended just because he hopes to get some rainbow crumbs from his political masters. (Supporting race slavery sounds pretty right wing to me Rick. Heil!)

If you want to know about me you can also read an article by a former Talking Points Memo journalist written when working at The Daily Beast:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-28/bruce-majors-an-unlikely-tea-partier/

By: Rick Rosendall

Rick Rosendall — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:27:14 +0000

If you don’t know who Bruce Majors is, he is a far-right-wing Tea Party organizer. Check out TPM’s Troll Alert on him: http://tinyurl.com/25ryf5f

By: Rick Rosendall

Rick Rosendall — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:19:42 +0000

They are trying to square a circle, and it can’t be done. Chris Barron was right last February: Cleta Mitchell IS a nasty bigot; I watched her in action when she testified against marriage equality before the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics. But she’s chair of the ACU Foundation; how did Barron expect them to react? But if you step back from that and consider all the lies and extreme proposals from the GOP in the past year, the amazing thing is that GOProud enthusiastically supports all of it excepting only the anti-gay part (well, ignoring their drooling over Ann Coulter and Donald Trump). They are little more than provocateurs, and love to imagine that they are constantly enraging the “gay left,” by which they mean all gay people who are not ultra-right-wing like them; but I know very few activists who take them seriously. My own column in Metro Weekly this week discusses them, but I doubt you’ll take it as a cry of alarm: http://www.metroweekly.com/news/opinion/?ak=6483

By: Bruce Majors

Bruce Majors — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:03:34 +0000

While this article was not un-informative I feel I got as much information by reading Roger Simon a week ago on PajamasMedia, when he (and Andrew Breitbart and other pro-gay rights conservatives) announced he would be boycotting CPAC if GOProud is banned (that seems to be missing from your article).

You seemed to have failed to report that this action came AFTER CPAC and its sponsoring organization ACU had a change in leadership, as the people who originally invited GOProud to be a sponsor retired last year and new people now run the group.

You also quote the Southern Poverty Law Center, which, whatever its past virtues (if any) now seems to be a self-parody of mendacious leftover parochialism. It maintains a blacklist of groups it labels “Patriots.” What does that say about them? It seems to be on the same moral and intellectual level as Janet Napolitano’s (please don’t come out and saddle the gay community with your sins Janet!) having DHS spy on people with Ron Paul bumperstickers.

As usual most of the people posting attacks on GOProud here, from Wayne Besen to the complete unknowns, are often silly and tendentious, sometimes whoring after Obama and the Demwits who continue to temporize on delivering any goods (to gays or anyone else) while milking you as cash cows for donations. Far from being hated, GOProud has been sponsored by the most robust and influential tea party/limited government activists (especially those under 40 or 50), from Grover Norquist’s American for Tax Reform to Andrew Breitbart to Roger Simon at PJTV. And as one of the posters above noted GOProud was “bad mannered” in that they taunted all the “pro-family” anti-gay forces at CPAC last year who were so unmanly as to talk about GOProud behind their backs but not debate them to their faces. (Raising the question, since people “on the right” criticize each other all the time, if only gays are not allowed to be rude and confrontational in the CPAC leadership’s eyes.)

But GOProud remains very popular. At their July Monaco Hotel event for Margaret Hoover’s new book “American Individualism” in DC, the 2/3 gay 1/3 straight audience was far bigger than the turnout at local Stonewall, HRC Federal Club, Gertrude Stein, GLAA, or CAGLCC events. At CPAC 2010 when a “pro-family” theologically inspired speaker attacked them, the younger set, mainly hundreds of libertarianish/Ron Paul college age CPAC registrants, almost shouted him off the stage. [At CPAC 2011 they shouted "war criminal" at Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.] What’s really going on here is the Republican and conservative think tank incumbotacrocy trying to protect itself from waves of change, from the tea parties, to Ron Paul, to gay Republicans. In that the GOP incumbatocracy are not unlike Obama and the Democrats.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi952nAd8PA

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:08:21 +0000

It is pathetic that go proud wants to be involved. Don’t they get it? They hate you. It’s that simple.

By: james

james — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:09:32 +0000

I suspect you’ve misread Marc’s comment. I think he’s saying that with there are people within CPAC and on the ACU board who see gays as pedophiles and will regardless of the overwhelming and obvious evidence to the contrary. Regrettably, I suspect that’s completely correct. And while it may be technically true that no one, “see gay groups as pedophiles” there are some people who see gay groups as, well, groups of pedophiles. That’s why we’re out. That’s how we combat this nonsense.

By: Katra

Katra — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:37:06 +0000

Norm, Actually, many in the GOP do see everyone in the LGBT community as a pedophile out to corrupt “their” young. Just look at the propaganda put out by GOP and other right wing organizations when it comes to their campaigns against non-discriminator use of a rest room facility. Every add depicts some “guy” in a dress trying to molest “their” daughters. This has happened repeatedly over the years and is still prevelent in the socila (un) consciousness of many concervative groups. They not only espouse that idea, they embrace it to give them an “Evil” to fight against so they don’t have to look themselves in the face and admit that it is the members of their own churches who commit the bulk of crimes against children.