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Former President Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman says he's gay after years of denial
New York Daily News ^ | August 25, 2010 | DN Washington Bureau

Posted on 08/25/2010 7:35:11 PM PDT by DesertRenegade

Ken Mehlman, who was President George W. Bush's campaign manager in 2004, has come out as gay - and wants to be an advocate for gay marriage.

Mehlman, also a former Republican National Committee chairman, told the Atlantic magazine "It's taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life."

He said friends, family and colleagues "have been wonderfully supportive."

When rumors of Mehlman's sexual orientation circulated years ago, he told several reporters that they were false.

Mehlman and his aides went to considerable lengths to conceal his sexual identity, arranging "dates" with women and photos of him dancing in heterosexual situations.

While he was a top GOP operative, the Republican Party was actively pushing anti-gay marriage initiatives. Mehlman acknowledged that if not for his secret, he might have been a voice for a more conciliatory approach to gays, according to the interview on the Atlantic's website.

"It's a legitimate question and one I understand," Mehlman said. Now, he said, he will openly back gay marriage as consistent with such GOP principles as "individual freedom."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aids; gaymafia; gayoldparty; homosexualagenda; kenmehlman; kneepadbrigade; mehlman; perverts; rino; rnc; sodomites; sodomy; surprisesurprise
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To: DesertRenegade

Will we get invitations to the Graham/Melham wedding?

Which one wears white?


21 posted on 08/25/2010 7:46:58 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: dangus
Somehow I don't think this guy was fending off too many women. Maybe all he had to resort to were hairy men for his perverted desires:

Ken Mehlman

22 posted on 08/25/2010 7:49:04 PM PDT by DesertRenegade
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

I knew it - I just knew it.


23 posted on 08/25/2010 7:49:43 PM PDT by Tweeker
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To: DesertRenegade
It seems the queers have infiltrated the Republican establishment to the highest levels.

We need to purge these mentally ill people from the party.

24 posted on 08/25/2010 7:50:19 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: DesertRenegade

Great. Just wait until Joseph Farah gets hold of this [pun intended].


25 posted on 08/25/2010 7:50:43 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: DesertRenegade
Of course he's dishonest ~ he's a politician's politician.

"Uncomfortable" ~ means ~ well, it means something I suppose, but these guys are into each other's pants, and elsewhere, so there's something there other than "uncomfortable" for them.

Anyone know if this guy was involved in the White House staff during the Nixon years? Lots of folks noticed the gay blades here and there that had some deal going ~ I've thought maybe Bryce Harlow was their "master" ~ a number of his proteges were definitely on the lowdown.

26 posted on 08/25/2010 7:52:21 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: 1rudeboy

Joseph Farah: “Meanwhile, the oldest and most prestigious ‘conservative’ weekly in the nation is owned by a corporation run by an activist homosexual.”

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=192761


27 posted on 08/25/2010 7:52:46 PM PDT by DesertRenegade
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To: DesertRenegade

i doan care ‘bout no gay man-GIMME mah’lobstah right now!!


28 posted on 08/25/2010 7:53:35 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: DesertRenegade

This is news?


29 posted on 08/25/2010 7:53:56 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("California just got the best politicians money can buy." -- AuntB, June 9, 2010)
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To: DesertRenegade

I wonder if Chuckles Schumer and Anthony Weiner will ever have the courage to admit their perversion?


30 posted on 08/25/2010 7:54:37 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The left does not want him. The left is severely disgusted at how he worked with Rove to get 40+ Marriage bans in 2004 and 2006.

The left wants to make sure he lives a celibate life.


31 posted on 08/25/2010 7:55:22 PM PDT by Munson
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To: MissDairyGoodnessVT

Snort!


32 posted on 08/25/2010 7:55:47 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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To: DesertRenegade

Wow. Is every establishment Republican a homosexual, or does it just seem that way? Gay Old Party, in deed.

Anyway, I think I need to go watch an Electric Six video. Cue the Lincoln dancers on the stripper poles.


33 posted on 08/25/2010 7:56:05 PM PDT by MichiganConservative (A government big enough to do unto the people you don't like will get to doing unto you soon enough.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Bill Lockyer? Don Perata?


34 posted on 08/25/2010 7:56:44 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("California just got the best politicians money can buy." -- AuntB, June 9, 2010)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
It seems the queers have infiltrated the Republican establishment to the highest levels.

BINGO!

35 posted on 08/25/2010 7:57:49 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("California just got the best politicians money can buy." -- AuntB, June 9, 2010)
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To: calcowgirl

ewwwwwwwwwww lol :)


36 posted on 08/25/2010 7:58:23 PM PDT by Munson
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To: DesertRenegade
I’m curious what prompted Mehlman to suddenly make a big public announcement

They just weren't buying the tapioca stains line anymore
37 posted on 08/25/2010 7:59:27 PM PDT by GunningForTheBuddha ("There is an 'I' in Marxist")
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To: DesertRenegade

He was a complete failure as RNC chair. GOP lost both houses of congress during his tenure.

To call him a "weak spokesman" would be an understatement.

38 posted on 08/25/2010 7:59:57 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: DesertRenegade
e expects us to believe that he was engaging in sodomy with other men for DECADES because he found it uncomfortable?

I guessing if he was the catcher, he was uncomfortable.
39 posted on 08/25/2010 8:07:56 PM PDT by stylin19a (Never buy a putter until you first get a chance to throw it)
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To: Tweeker

Yeah, I was always on those Bad Teacher threads - that was probably a dead giveaway right there!


40 posted on 08/25/2010 8:08:08 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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