Gay Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger gets a rough welcome in southern Utah

Although Mitt Romney has virtually locked up the Republican presidential nomination and all of his serious challengers have conceded the race, presidential candidate Fred Karger is still out on the trail campaigning.

Karger, a gay Republican running an issues-based campaign to change attitudes within the GOP about same-sex marriage, took his efforts last week to Utah, which holds the nation's last primary election, on June 26.

Karger spent four days in the state, meeting with local Republican leaders and urging the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to stop funding efforts against gay marriage. (Prior to launching his presidential bid, Karger founded a group called "Californians Against Hate," which focused on Mormon involvement in the campaign to pass Proposition 8, a ballot initiative passed in 2008 banned same-sex marriage.)

During his visit to Utah, Karger met with Washington County Republican Party Chairman Willie Billings, who Karger said was "welcoming" and "friendly." After their meeting, which was first reported by the Los Angeles Times, Karger gave Billings some campaign paraphernalia, including a Frisbee and a T-Shirt. When Billings brought the souvenirs home, however, his wife, Nanette Billings, threw them in the garbage and fired off an email to Karger, calling him "a radical idiot" and saying

Yeah, I was gonna mention that Terry has run for office as a Republican twice before (losing the GOP primary both times). Overall he's a solid conservative and makes no bones about it (although he does have a handful of positions I disagree with and didn't post here... I think he's pro-illegal alien amnesty), but Terry's an extremely outspoken pro-life activist and is probably not a viable GOP candidate because he's made so many enemies over the years when he ran Operation Rescue. Terry doesn't mince words, he also thinks abortion should be a capital crime and has publicly advocated giving the death penalty to abortion doctors.

In the Oklahoma RAT Primary, he won 11 counties in the state, including the entire panhandle, and two delegates to the convention. I doubt OK Republicans were crossing over to vote in the RAT primary, so it begs the question just who was voting for him. Probably quite a few OK Democrats didn't know he was so conservative, or quite frankly didn't care because they were disappointed with Obama and Terry was the "not Obama" choice on the ballot. Watching him embarrass Obama is entertaining, it's better that he ran as a RAT on a super conservative platform.

Fred Karger is some super liberal douchebag. Although he seems to be some kind of Democrat plant, apparently he has self-identified as a "Republican" for most of his life. Why he does that is beyond me. On his website, he compares himself to Ronald Reagan and says he wants to inspire America like Reagan did, through optimism. Of course his whiny "you hateeeeeeeee me cuz you won't let me marry whoever I want!!" persona is nothing like Reagan's sunny optimism and laid-back manner. Maybe it's like the "transgender" crowd who "feel" psychologically they are "women" even if they're clearly biologically male. This guy "feels" he is a Republican, even if 80%-90% of his policy positions are in-line with Howard Dean wing of the Democrat Party. Karger could use a good therapist.

(And how come media won't refer to delusional people as "the millionaire" if they psychology "feel" they are wealthy, given that they refer to people by whatever gender they imagine themselves to be?)

(And how come media won't refer to delusional people as "the millionaire" if they psychology "feel" they are wealthy, given that they refer to people by whatever gender they imagine themselves to be?)

Brilliant observation!

I've always felt I should have been born a millionaire. I demand they start treating me by my income bracket of choice and give me one of those no limit credit cards.

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