[fight_truth_decay]

"Soon, a new name will pop up on Mike Rogers's hit list," writes Jose Antonio Vargas,
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 4, 2007;
Page C01

Larry Craig wasn't "the first on my list," the gay blogger says. And the Idaho senator, who announced his resignation Saturday, "won't be the last."

Patterico of Patterico's Pontification "Let me turn the tables on you for a moment with a hypothetical.

Imagine that a conservative Republican senator from Idaho typically votes according to the views of his conservative constituents — with one notable exception: he supports a wide range of proposals endorsed by homosexual activists. He supports gay marriage, allowing gays to serve openly in the military, and laws that confer “protected class” status upon homosexuals for purposes of filing discrimination lawsuits. His constituents are puzzled by this one uncharacteristic breach in his conservative facade, but accept his explanation that he is motivated by principle.

But he doesn’t tell constituents that he, personally, is gay.

Now imagine that an anti-homosexual activist has learned that the senator is gay, and tells the senator that he will expose the senator’s secret homosexual life . . . unless the senator decides to start voting against the gay rights agenda, in which case the activist will remain silent.

That would be extortion. But the activist could justify it with arguments similar to those advanced by Rogers. The revelation of the senator’s secret life would expose as a half-truth his lofty principled reasons for supporting the gay agenda. Instead of concerns about equality, maybe his votes were cast to keep his lover(s) happy. By revealing this, the activist could argue that he was simply exposing dishonesty. And there are all sorts of other possible conflicts lurking under the surface in such a situation. For example, the activist could even argue that the senator voted for the gay agenda out of fear of being exposed by someone like Mike Rogers!

Somehow, if a conservative thug threatened to out a Congressman unless he voted against the homosexual agenda, I don’t think the extortionist would be the subject of a puff piece in the Washington Post. Do you?

On Capitol Hill, a typical phone call from Rogers -- "Are you gay?" he'd ask -- is "a call from Satan himself," says a former high-ranking congressional staffer whose name is on the list.

[Philistone]

I was talking to a friend of mine the other day. Two of his cousins, a step-brother and five high school friends of his were Pages from around 1983-1990. They ALL told him that they had been warned about sexual predators among the Senators (including Craig).

WHY? WHY? WHY do Pages get that information while we voters don’t. If we did, we wouldn’t vote for these guys in the first place. Instead, we get treated to these “outings”, generally timed to screw us in an upcoming election (not this time, thankfully since Craig outed himself).

[freekitty]

Never heard of this guy; but I wonder why he has set himself up as holier than thou moralistc puke. I also wonder why his word would be any good since he is not outing anyone but one party and won’t even out himself or atleast be up front about the fact that he is gay.

There doesn’t seem to be any credibility here.

[lesser_satan]

bump

[roses of sharon]

Yikes, the gay mafia in a turf war?

Gross, why can’t they keep their anal sex proclivities to themselves!

[Dems_R_Losers]

I forgot to add that I am convinced the leak to Roll Call about Sen. Craig’s arrest came from a Republican. Democrats knew all about it but were planning to hold it until at least after the filing deadline in Idaho, and probably until 30 days before the election, just like they did with Mark Foley. Some wise Republican got wind of it and preempted the Dems. Now the GOP will keep that Senate seat and the whole thing will have died down well before the 2008 election.

[13Sisters76]

Do we EVER have to be reminded of the sort of people we are dealing with on the left? How many times do we have to be blind-sided by these people before we get right back in their faces?

Here’s the big difference between them and us- we kick our mistakes to the curb. Whether Craig did anything wrong or not, it smells bad and republicans don’t usually elect pols we know are gay. We can’t trust them. Whether it’s faggotry, campaign funds shenanigans, lying about a conservative record, we just DON’T vote for them. Unlike, of course, the dems who hold their perverts and crooks up as heroes and re-elect the nitwits.

Vote in the primaries, people! Turn out for those the same way you turn out for the general election. Those who vote “third parties” or stay home in a snit, PLEASE remember what kind of country we leave for our kids if we don’t STOP the left right now. And if we don’t vote, they WILL win which is a tragedy I cannot think about without getting sick to my stomach.

[Chickenhawk Warmonger]

This is the guy that leaked the info to the media about Rep. Mark Foley.
http://chickenhawkexpress.blogspot.com/2006/10/foley-gate-was-this-outing-planned.html
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He also attempted to blackmail Sen Craig to get him to change his vote on Judge Alito’s confirmation.

“...Interesting to note about Rogers’ little outfest today. With his usual hyperbolic statements, Rogers let comments slip that identify this Senator as the one he was trying to blackmail to vote against Judge Alito’s confirmation. Obviously Rogers knew about this Senator’s sexual exploits back in January 2006 but less than 3 weeks before the election, he issues this “breaking news”.”
http://chickenhawkexpress.blogspot.com/2006/10/gay-avengers-blackmail-subject.html

http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/michael-rogers-tried-to-blackmail-senator-on-alito-vote

http://patterico.com/2006/10/17/lefty-blogger-outs-senator-as-gay/
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Also here’s a tidbit about the Gay Avengers and their gay fatwah... including John Aravosis from Americablog....

“Not likely, say Mike Rogers and John Aravosis, the two men loosely heading an ongoing outing campaign on the Hill. As the date nears for a Senate vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would ban gay marriages in the Constitution, Rogers said the outings have picked up steam — from 13 documented offices to nearly 20 currently on a target list provided by Rogers to the Blade.

Despite Foley’s FMA opposition, Aravosis purported to out Foley as well, taking him to task for supporting President Bush, who endorsed the measure late last winter. Labeling Foley as “our latest closeted gay hypocrite,” Aravosis said Foley made the list for putting politics ahead of his own community by “whoring for an anti-gay president.”

Both Aravosis and Rogers said they continue to collect information from their network of sources, which include employees of the Human Rights Campaign and Log Cabin Republicans, and plan on outing more staffers and members.”
http://www.expressgaynews.com/2004/7-9/news/national/outed.cfm