Posted on 09/02/2012 5:20:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WHAT the Republicans painstakingly constructed here was meant to look like the biggest of tents. And still they couldn’t spare so much as a sleeping bag’s worth of space for the likes of me.
Women were welcomed. During the prime evening television hours, the convention stage was festooned with them, and when they weren’t at the microphone, they were front and center in men’s remarks. Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney both gushed about their moms in tributes as tactical as they were teary.
Latinos were plentiful and flexed their Spanish — “En América, todo es posible,” said Susana Martinez, the New Mexico governor — despite an “English First” plank in the party’s regressive platform.
And while one preconvention poll suggested that roughly zero percent of African-Americans support Romney, Republicans found several prominent black leaders to testify for him. Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state, delivered what will surely be remembered as the convention’s most stirring and substantive remarks, purged of catcalls and devoid of slickly rendered fibs.
But you certainly didn’t see anyone openly gay on the stage in Tampa. More to the point, you didn’t hear mention of gays and lesbians. Scratch that: Mike Huckabee, who has completed a ratings-minded transformation from genial pol to dyspeptic pundit, made a derisive reference to President Obama’s support for same-sex marriage. We were thus allowed a fleeting moment inside the tent, only to be flogged and sent back out into the cold.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
i’ve been told that the “male” partner in a gay relationship do hate women. the effeminate men love women (ie they love Barbara Streisand, etc)
Ok, where are the Pro-Life, Pro-Military, Pro Fiscal responsibility speakers at the Democrat Convention?
Stop the presses! Close the bridges! Turn off the lights! Lock all the doors! It's a bad nightmare from a black and white television world!Those priggish, regressive republican men are heterosexual! And the narrow minded women are all breeders! It's absolutely disgusting!
That would be 2 letters and a word.
Just sayin'.
This poof slams the RNC platform as being “regressive” and then wonders why he and people of his ilk aren’t represented onstage?
Maybe it is because of the nonstop screeching, whining, and complaining.
Earth to NYT: The majority of people in America are more than fed up with your gay agenda.
Let Rosie give the nominating speech for Osama.That'll do *something* for his poll numbers!
Hey Bruni! The neighbors are having a barbecue and they didn’t invite any homosexuals to speak! Get over yourself.....the sun came up this morning and nobody had to know your opinion about it.
Frank,you're a perverted tub of lard.
Listen, Frank, you’ve got your party, we’ve got ours.
we do NOT pander to the filthy 1%...
Don't gay people have anything else to talk about? Gays are like vegetarians - all they want to talk about is their obsession. It's boring. Really. Soooooo boring. Get a hobby boys... Anything - well, anything except being vegetarian...
So true!
Smartphones, my friend. I am not on my computer.
Smartphone, huh?
How bad are the Dumbphones?
Just kidding-don’t have a cow.
(shrug) I guess nobody wanted to get infected with God-knows-what. Anyway, didn’t some faggot brag about licking one Republican primary candidate’s doorknob a few years ago? Who needs that? No, there’s plenty of room at the Democrat convention for perverts and weirdos. Good idea, keeping them away from Tampa and maintaining a family-friendly broadcast.
It was a big deal then. There was a "pray in" and threat of walk-out during his short speech.
I expect Romney just didn't want the drama. Of course, around these parts, several crassly insist Condi Rice is not heterosexual just because she's unmarried.
Sorry, Frank. The likes of you in the GOP? A flaming homosexual Timesman with a Republican voter registration? As Eminem might put it, they make it all up, there’s no such thing, it’s like a Hillary with good looks who cooks and cleans.
I’m confining myself to saying gay activists hate women. I think the whole concept of “fag hags” is fast disappearing. That may have something to do with gays being closeted for years, I don’t know. But young gay men rarely idolize female stars anymore.
Will the DNC feature pro-life Christian speakers? Enough said.
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