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Bush Campaign Chief and Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman: I'm Gay
The Atlantic ^ | 10/25/2010 | Marc Ambinder

Posted on 08/25/2010 3:58:16 PM PDT by LonelyCon

Ken Mehlman, President Bush's campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay.

Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter's questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would arise about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group that supported the legal challenge to California's ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8.

"It's taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life," said Mehlman, now an executive vice-president with the New York City-based private equity firm, KKR. "Everybody has their own path to travel, their own journey, and for me, over the past few months, I've told my family, friends, former colleagues, and current colleagues, and they've been wonderful and supportive. The process has been something that's made me a happier and better person. It's something I wish I had done years ago."

Privately, in off-the-record conversations with this reporter over the years, Mehlman voiced support for civil unions and told of how, in private discussions with senior Republican officials, he beat back efforts to attack same-sex marriage. He insisted, too, that President Bush "was no homophobe." He often wondered why gay voters never formed common cause with Republican opponents of Islamic jihad, which he called "the greatest anti-gay force in the world right now."

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; gaymafia; gayoldparty; gop; homosexualagenda; kenmehlman; mehlman; rino; rnc
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To: LonelyCon

Never saw it coming.


41 posted on 08/25/2010 4:41:38 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: LonelyCon
I guess it runs in the family ...


42 posted on 08/25/2010 4:45:00 PM PDT by x
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To: LonelyCon

Why is it so many guys are queer?

43 posted on 08/25/2010 4:46:48 PM PDT by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)
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To: April Lexington
Hell's bells, we have Erik Erikson at Red State saying conservatives should be the biggest supporters of homosexual rights! Ann Coulter is the keynote speaker at Homocon! What the h-e-double toothpicks is happening with what was once the conservative movement? With "friends" like that, who needs Commies, 'Rats, and other assorted enemies?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

44 posted on 08/25/2010 4:47:37 PM PDT by wku man (Steel yourselves, patriots, and be ready. Won't be long now....)
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To: Spunky
Why is it so many guys are queer?

I don't have a clue...but most are made by heterosexuals.

45 posted on 08/25/2010 4:50:06 PM PDT by lonestar (Barry is furious the big spill wasn't caused by EXXON...would have nationalized it by now.)
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To: LonelyCon
Rule of Life #1: If you are a homosexual, you must announce it for the whole world to know.
46 posted on 08/25/2010 4:53:20 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Spunky
It's the new trend....it's now “cool” to be a homosexual, a bi-sexual, a trans-sexual, and other perversions.

Of course one must talk about it endlessly, write books, do movies, have a quota of at least one on each TV show....

After Hollywood gets bored of this latest fetish, what will be next?

Yikes!

47 posted on 08/25/2010 4:54:04 PM PDT by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: Michael.SF.
Yea sure he did.Sick of reading about Homo's. Kelly McGillis just announced she is a Homo,hello she made her money and lied to us the whole time. "I think that was an ongoing process from the time I was probably 12. It was a long arduous journey for me," she told the publication. "I had a lot of bad things happen to me that made me think God was punishing me for being gay. Life is a freaking journey about coming to terms with who and what you are."Gosh Kelly just found out too.:)
48 posted on 08/25/2010 4:55:24 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: fatima
"I had a lot of bad things happen to me that made me think God was punishing me for being gay.

Well she did have to do a love scene with that little shrimp Tom Cruise. That could make anyone question themselves.

49 posted on 08/25/2010 4:58:21 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Three things you don't discuss in public; politics, religion, and choice of caliber.)
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To: LonelyCon

I just thought we were all Muslim now. I can’t keep up with all the life changes.


50 posted on 08/25/2010 5:07:09 PM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: pnh102

Not if he’s going to promote the homosexual agenda, which is he is. So he is most assuredly not better.


51 posted on 08/25/2010 5:09:00 PM PDT by little jeremiah (.Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: DesertRenegade

Someone should ask him what he thinks of the GOProud’s “all gay all the time” agenda.

And while they’re asking him questions, what he thinks of “festivals” like the Folsom Street Fair.


52 posted on 08/25/2010 5:10:33 PM PDT by little jeremiah (.Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: Centurion2000

True :)
Witness-Harrison was a good actor here.:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxZVTQK2YTo&feature=related


53 posted on 08/25/2010 5:13:14 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: afraidfortherepublic

WHY do these people feel the need to announce their SEX LIFE preferences? WHY? I’m not interested in their preversion. I don’t find that acceptable. o back in the closet and fiddle with your same sex friends.


54 posted on 08/25/2010 5:15:39 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: kittymyrib

GWB was too trusting. He is old school. He kept allot of Clinton people too who just screwed him silly, figuratively speaking. GWB wanted to believe others were honorable and able to put aside partisan politics. He was WRONG!


55 posted on 08/25/2010 5:17:03 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: nmh

Notice that the guy said “Bush is not a homophobe”.

Puke.


56 posted on 08/25/2010 5:19:05 PM PDT by little jeremiah (.Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: Spunky
They get molested more and more.

Think about it. I'd bet he was dumped off at some day care center. ANYTHING goes on there. There are no cameras in the bathroom. It's pedophile heaven. If you are a pedophile, where’d you like to work? A public school or maybe a pres school - it will depend on your age preference. I don't understand it but those ABUSED typically abuse others in the same way.

57 posted on 08/25/2010 5:20:47 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: LonelyCon

Color me not interested. The self-importance of these people is sickening.


58 posted on 08/25/2010 5:43:58 PM PDT by ggrrrrr23456
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To: LonelyCon

OK, Ken, I showed you mine, now let's see your limp wrist.

59 posted on 08/25/2010 5:55:49 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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To: little jeremiah

Bush probably didn’t have a clue he was a homo.


60 posted on 08/25/2010 5:57:38 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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