Bobby's Blue State

Exploratory This

Over the last few weeks I've read about all these Republican politicians traveling to New Hampshire or South Carolina making speeches or going to potlucks all in the name of 2008. Exploratory committees are being set up and our boys are out there speaking to the conservative masses. And what a pre-field it is: You've got the extremely homophobic Mormon Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, spewing his intolerance down South. Then you've got the extremely homophobic Doctor Senator from Tennessee, Bill Frist, spewing his intolerance in New England. But this is always the way with the Republican Presidential hopefuls. If it's not Steve Forbes, it's Dan Quail. Everybody has to get out there and cut their conservative teeth by preaching the gospel of intolerance. When will these guys ever learn. Yeah, Bush got in, but the country is evolving, slowly, but still evolving.

Look at how open-minded Barry Goldwater became in his later years, helped along by an openly gay family member. God bless how open-minded he became. Odds are that most of the homophobic Republican politicians have a gay in their immediate family. Happened with Newt, and most recently, with Alan Keyes (though, I don't imagine a Goldwater conversion with either). So my advice to the 2008 crop of Republican hopefuls, take a close accounting of your immediate family, because I sure will especially if you have cute sons and I'll make sure I have the video to prove it. ;-)

posted by BBS @ 10:12 PM