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Read this article and tell me whether this story holds water. After what we’ve been discussing regarding the support for pro-equality candidates as well as how critical it is to vote because of those down ticket races that affect LGBT issues progress at the state and local levels, is this AP article on target?
Across the country, activists say gay voters are angry – at the lack of progress on issues from eliminating employment discrimination to uncertainty over serving in the military to the economy – and some are choosing to sit out this election or look for other candidates.…[I]n places like Cook County, Ill., where the gay population represents about 7 percent of voters, that could mean the difference between victory and defeat in some races, said Rick Garcia, director of public policy for Equality Illinois. One of those races is a much-watched and close battle for Obama’s old Senate seat between Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk.
“If (candidates) can mobilize the gay community and get them out to vote, it could make all the difference in the world in some of these key races,” said Garcia.
But volunteers who’ve been calling the 18,000 or so members of Equality Illinois to urge them to vote have been getting an earful. Many members say they won’t vote or will vote against incumbents, regardless of their party affiliation or stance on gay issues.
This year’s election is a stark contrast to 2008, when the gay community turned out in droves to elect Obama and help Democrats regain control of Congress.
I happen to think it’s BS, and only sets up the meme that the community will be to blame for any major losses in the midterms.
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If they can blame a loss on us…then doesn’t that give us sway that they thought we didn’t have?
I’m on the fence with this.
I don’t think it’s BSWhen you have gay demonstrations at Obama’s appearances, and Dan Choi is saying that Obama has lost his vote, it suggests gay voters are not energised to vote and support democrats. The story about the problems Equality Illinois is having with GOTV calls to gay voters in Illinois is striking.
don’t think they will vote ‘against’…i just think they won’t vote at all; it’s like, “Nobody listens to me, so why should I bother.”
in too many ways, this election is actually MORE important than the one in 2008, but nobody is making the point loud and clear; they are all too afraid that they are going to lose; that in itself makes them lose!
vote/electionsI will hold my nose like most I think and vote for the Democrats…cause we aint going backwards!
Angry but not short sightedI’m angry enough at the dems not to give them my money but not enough to vote for candidates even worse on our issues than they are. In most (not all) races the dem is better on LGBT issues than the GOP. Not voting for dems out of anger with party or staying home is biting our nose to spite our face if we are gay rights advocates.
Love Jane Hamsher’s tweetJust came across:
It’s part hit-job, part trueThe headline should read, “Obama’s actions on DADT suppressing the LGBT vote” or “Obama’s lack of action on LGBT issues suppressing the LGBT vote?” Instead it’s framing it as, “the angry, impatient gays are gonna fuck up the midterms for the Democrats.”
Democrats are just waiting to blame their losses on the LGBT community so they don’t have to take responsibility for their own actions (or lack thereof). I’ve already had several pre-accuse me of it in debates about DADT.
But there is some truth to the fact that Obama’s failures on LGBT issues is going to inevitably cause those LGBTs who aren’t as religious about voting to stay at home. I’m certainly going to vote. I’m not going to punish Barbara Boxer for Barack Obama’s shortcomings. But there’s always a part of the voting population that only votes sometimes. And if you’re lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, I can see why you would be demotivated to vote.
Blame Spineless LeaderStooping to scapegoat LGBT Americans in advance of the mid-term elections is a sad commentary on the Democratic Party’s ability to deliver for many of its constituencies when handed majorities in both chambers of Congress and The White House. The difference between Queers and other “traditional Democrats” is that LGBT Americans have had over twenty years of protest over HIV disease during which to practice for this era, and we pressed for full equality as if our lives depend on it–and they do! Still, LGBT voters would be fools to believe that Obama would necessarily veto anti-LGBT legislation sent to his desk over the next two years, and they will hold their noses and vote Democratic by a majority.
As for me, I voted early on Saturday morning. With one truly contested office on the ballot, I supported Martin O’Malley for governor…. he looks so hot in an A-shirt!….and skipped the remainder of uncontested or poorly contested offices on the ballot, including Rep. Steny Hoyer and Sen. Barbra Mikulski.
We have to be smarter & less lazy about thisNot all Democrats are good on LGBT issues, not all Democrats are bad. We should support the ones that are genuinely good with time, money & votes and we should let the other ones rot on the vine. That takes some more effort to sort out…you essentially have to pretend like party affiliations don’t exist and really look into the background & positions of the people you’re voting for, but its the only way to go.
If an anti-LGBT Democrat is running for office in your local races, vote, but vote for someone else! Vote for a third-party candidate who is unafraid of supporting full equality for LGBT’s (Greens are a pretty safe bet).
I don’t know.This gay already voted and voted almost 100% Democratic. Democrats can’t blame me.
We wont accept less than equalityand candidates who will not provide it will not get our votes, even as the lesser of evils.
Perhaps a few years of tea bagger frenzy with Rush and Glenn Beck running congress via video will get the dems to realise that the meme “it wil be worse under Palin” is no longer an excuse for our not obtaining equality..
This is OUR revolution; we will NOT elect blue dogs just so that the party holds onto chairmanships.
Give us our rights, or get used to tax breaks for the filthy rich, massive polution and jobs disappearing overseas. And you CANNOT blame us when all that you have offered us is a Rental Truck Equality Memorandum for federal employees and fear.
You sold us out, the unemployed out, the working poor out…where is a jobs stimulus and infrastructure stimulus that was once talked about?
Only the banks made out under President Obama, and they are voting republican.
I see gitmo is still open, perhaps you can open a vacation resort there for your republican friends in the name of bipartisanship, unless you are afraid that it might be seen as a “public option” of a hotel.
Lip Service? Results!We’ve already seen them wave around the smoking gun, complaining that we criticize them when they are the only administration willing to say the right things on our issues. Did they really think that our money and our votes just bought lip service? They owe us results. And we will not settle for less than results. We want our money back. We want our votes back. And I am one of many who will be sitting out this election.
I think most gays would sit homebefore they’d vote for a Republican.
I know I would.
What you talkin about, Whitebear?No way in hell am I voting for any blue dogs.
Nope
Not going to happen,
Never.
Not holding my nose or anything else.
I voted for the President holding my nose and after two strong drinks of Jemmies, knowing of his ties to the Christian Right and after “God is in the Mix” being tossed onto the table to tell me that I am less than his straight blue dog friends.
Screw that.
My wife died while we were waiting for DOMA to disappear; I mourned her and paid tax on her belongings.
Why?
Because the President’s Justice Department had to fight it in language that told me in no uncertain terms that our President saw the love that Therese and I shared as something akin to things scraped from his bloody shoes.
I want equality; not so much for me, but for the yopung coming up after me. I want a better future for them, for we elders have a real responsibility for them as our “LGBT Children”
You support us or you go down to defeat, if that is in our power to do.
Blame us if you will, but no slave ever voted for slavery, no one voted to retain Jim Crow for themselves, and to expect us to vote to keep us second or third class citizenship is ridiculous.
DNC–prepare to lose, and you earned the loss.
I think it’s BS tooand yes, it’s the setup for the gays caused this. You’ll see it. Of course, that won’t motivate them to do something to motivate us in 2012.
I’d like to not vote for democrats… but!Yes, I’m pissed that the democratic party more specifically our commander in chief hasn’t done chit for his GLBT constituency but the other alternative is no alternative. Republicans don’t give a crap about GLBT needs such as marriage parity or DADT and are only concerned about less money in their pockets rather than what’s good for the country.
The Republican party has become the party of mean.
The Tea Party is just an excuse for old white people to think they can make things “like the old days” i.e. black people, brown people, yellow people “in their place.”
Honest answers>I don’t think the GLBT community has the numbers to sway any issue. If we did, we would have legalized SSM by vote years ago!
>The Dems will blame us while sitting at home and ‘forgetting’ to get their own asses up and vote.
>The Republicans have allowed the Teabaggers to co-opt much of thier territory and some of thier star talent (like Sara Palin)
>The Teabaggers are so far out there and batshit crazy that they won’t pull the votes to win but will pull the votes from the Republicans possibly sinking Republican seats.
>This thing is gonna be a toss up. Anyone that win’s should be amazed that it happened. (espcially if Christine O’Donnell wins)
I’m voting on those that I know have voted for GLBT inclusion and spoken positively towards us consistantly. Lucky for me, I do have a full dance card to vote on.
I hope that everyone will votevote for whoever supports us, whether that is Dem, Green, or otherwise. And write in Harvey Milk or something if there is no one else.
But non-voting diminishes our voice.
I agreeWith four of the possible responses:
Yes, democrats need to worry about other demographic groups
Yes, the GOP is weak, Dems will hold Congress
Yes, let the teabaggers run the Hill and f*ck it up (Obama’s preference, I believe)
And…. Yes
So I voted with the GOP is weak.
But you might want to spend more time on developing responses to these fun polls.
Don’t be afraid of this memeIf we sway the election, then we have the power.
Personally, I’m supporting Democrats that delivered for me and opposing those that failed to deliver.
In NC, that means supporting state level Democrats and opposing federal Democrats — except Elaine Marshall who is a challenger to incumbent Richard Burr. By definition, a challenger hasn’t wronged us yet (as Burr certainly has).
I strongly urge all North Carolinians to vote — and pay particular attention to the judicial races.
I suggest following Equality NC PAC’s judicial endorsements:
http://equalitync.org/pac/2010g
Of Course You’re Responsible And So Is Pamyears of solid campaigning against the Democratic party and the president, undercutting they say and do, drumming up as much resentment as possible, and then turn around and say it couldn’t be possible that you and other bloggers of your ilk have nothing to do with the possibility of angry gays swaying the midterms????
Pam are you insane? Seriously, are there mental health issues going on? You ought to be deeply ashamed of yourself. You and Aravosis have did nothing but dedicate 100% of your time slamming the Dems.
I think I’m going to rerun that post I wrote about you guys. Apparently I’m not the only one concerned about all the damage you and your friends have done. Not if there’s AP stories floating around asking the exact same questions.
http://renwl.org/news/lgbt-rights/how-pam-spaulding-and-other-gay-inc-bloggers-may-have-already-swayed-outcome-of-midterm-elections
It’s too late. The damage has already been done. I don’t think it is all impossible that the likes of Pam and others have soured the LGBT community in some sectors from supporting the Dems.
How irresponsible for those here in this chain trying to pretend that the anti-Dem campaign that has flourished on this gay blog and others through purposeful strategy, couldn’t impact the midterm vote. Yes they can and they have. Thanks a lot Pam FOR NUTHIN.
I will accept some of that blameI called the President early on for his association with McLurkin and Warren, for chumming up with a man who whitewashed mass murderers
And..I partially blamed him for making it acceptable for Liberals to vote against Prop 8 with his opposition to our equality and his “God in the Mix” in a secular republic
And…I excoriated him for handing us the Rental Truck Equality Memorandum and having a photo-op with Joe whilst fighting to save DOMA with the most damning and disgusting language that I had seen in a legal memo in ages.
And…I called him on his cleverly tying DADT to a spending bill that he had announced he would veto anyways, motivating McCain to filibuster it to save him the embarrassment
And…I called him on fighting to save DADT whislt handing us more lipservice
And…I called him on his silence on Uganda.
I am sure that I battered him on other things too, so when you accuse Pam and John, please do not forget to apportion guilt to those others of us who laboured mightily to hold our fierce avoidant accountable.
Respectfully;
Maureen E. Hennessey, LL.B.,LL.M., Ph.D.
Exactly how I feel about.
The Dems have done the souring themselvesI’ve just said I’m supporting the local Dems that supported me, and opposing the federal Dems that have opposed me.
What could be more logical?
I can’t speak for others, but I hope the federal Dems reap the failure they’ve sown.
A purposeful strategy of holding elected officials accountable does not have to be anti-Dem. If the federal Dems had followed through on their promises, then holding them accountable would have been a positive experience.
No one here was against all Demswe just won’t vote for weakly pro or overtly anti LGBT Dems and attempts to paint the Blend as the Mephistopholes of the LGBT defections are simply tacky and misleading.
We won’t give the Democratic Party a blank cheque; we support those who support us.
And guess what?
The President isn’t supporting us.
You can continue in your delusions that the lady in Durham is the all powerful agent of doom for the DNC; but delusion it remains, or the none too subtle or honest anger of a blind Obama supporter
dishonest anger, sorryI meant to say the dishonest anger of a blind Obama supporter, sorry if I confused you
Look who’s being interviewed…I agree that it looks like a potential setup for a scapegoat come November, but I think there’s something else we all need to be aware of here. No one is a fan of politics – but Illinois politics leave little to be desired. Our last two Governors are either in jail or skirting jail (and getting paid handsomely to be on “celebrity apprentice”). ”Pay-for-play” politics are so rampant in this state, that nobody, even diehard voters, really trust anyone. And it just so happens that that AP article is interviewing the head of Equality Illinois, who’s constituents are primarily members of the GLBT community. So how much of the sentiment is directed towards GLBT-specific issues (DADT, ENDA, etc) vs. a combination of Illinois politics combined with negative sentiment on recent events? I believe it’s more of the latter (as an Illinois resident myself). I don’t like any of the candidates I plan to vote for in November here in the state, and that has nothing to do with GLBT issues. Argh.
We’re not Demobots or ObamobotsThe cause is freedom, equality, and justice.
It’s not about whther or not the Democrats win or lose, but whether or not the freedom, equality, and justice of LGBT people is moved forward.
Our job is to hold polititions to account for their campaign promises regarding freedom, equality, and justice. The porblem is not found in the act of pointing out that the President and the Democratic Congress has not done as well for the LGBT community as they promised the LGBT community they would do, but instead found in the President and the Democratic Congress having not done as well for the LGBT community as they promised the LGBT community they would do.
No, you’re dishonestYou’re dishonest as hell if you think you have any other option but to drag your butt to the polls and vote dems all the way down the line.
I have no time for silliness from folks such as yourself. You want to spar about the obvious and there’s nothing to spar about.
I’m clear. You’re confused. Vote dems if you want a shot at LGBT issues being addressed or don’t if don’t want a shot at them being addressed. It’s really simple. And there’s no reason whatsoever to complicate that.
So let it go petty person and do the right thing for the LGBT community.
And one more thingYou aren’t supporting yourself. The LGBT community can at anytime incite a civil rights fight to end all civil rights fights.
You wanna sit in the middle of your comfort zone and point fingers at politicians that’s on you. You have no one to blame but yourself for not getting off your butt and working alongside the president with a movement that is making clear to the world around you that you mean business.
Please, enough of your blah blah. You’re like a useless hound dog. Just talking loud and saying nothing. Put your liver lips where the action is and then we’ll talk about the president and anyone else you think is not stepping up to the plate. But as long as you sit on your butt being nothing but a lame Pam Spaulding goonie you need to shut up and stay out of grown folks conversation. You have nothing to contribute worth listening to.
Amen, Sister!I stand with Pam, Autumn, Kevin, Michael and so many others here who stood for and stand for Equality, nothing less. And yes, we will continue to criticise, cajole, excoriate and otherwise hold the administration and the Democratic party in general accountable, and will support only those who support us.
When we has a so called super-majority we made no progress because political clout was squandered, leadership was absent and the blue dogs defected.
And you expect us to vote for those who oppose us just to keep committee chairmanships?
You do realize who you’re talking to, right?While you bitch from the comfort of your computer in L.A. Maura prosecutes war criminals for genocide. She’s done more for the cause of human rights than just about anyone here. I’ll thank you to remember that next time you feel like spewing out words like “petty” to describe her.
I’ll be votingBrady and Kirk cannot get into office here in Illinois. I’ll be voting and I’ll be voting Dem. There is no way I’m sitting at home and not voting. I’m frustrated by the lack of focus on gay issues, but that isn’t the only important issue to me. I don’t want social security handed over to big business. I don’t want healthcare repealed.
Excuse me? I don’t care if she was the lead in a trial against Hitler. I know exactly who I’m talking to and I’ll tell you the same thing I told her.
Get your butt and fight your own battle. Civil rights are not for free.
How dare you!
Vote straight Dem is my only option?How about this option?
The Dems lose and figure out that they need to support us to win since we wont vote for Blue Dogs?
Dems who support us keep their seats, those who oppose us lose theirs.
Blah blah?
My dear , you certainly have picked absolutely the wrong activist to tar with that…
And my dear, opiating onself to believing that every dem is good for us is abrogating ccmmon sense and abandoning contact with reality. If the President can muzzle and leash the blue dogs, fine. But neither he nor Mr Emanuel showed much skill in doing so. So, it is easier to withold donations and funds from the Blue Dogs.
Perhaps if there were more real Dems to vote for, we weould be motivated to vote for them.
Again, it comes down to this:
We support those, and only those who support us.
As for being a useless liver lipped lame hound dog for Ms Spaulding, well, I’ve been called worse.
Magdalen
Maggie
Anarquista
Chocha
“That Bitch from the Prosecution”
You will need to develop a deeper and more trenchant vocabulary to match some of the more colourful sobriquets used to describe me.
As is, your selection is a bit too stale to affect my jaded palate.
If we had that much cloutWouldn’t ENDA be passed and DADT and DOMA be repealed already?
Methinks we’re being set up to take the fall… Lately I’ve seen far too much sparkly homo punching on plenty fauxgressive blogs, and I’m sure these same folks will tell us next year to STFU because after all we “lost” the election.
As far as voting, thankfully my Congress critters are supportive.
But if they weren’t I’d hold my nose and vote Democratic — do you really want teabaggers redrawing legislative districts next year? — and work like hell to get a better candidate elected in the primary next election.
Love you Keori!Have I told you that recently?
But I responded to him below, you may enjoy it.
It wasn’t a hard choiceI dare because not only am I a mod here, but because I’m Maura’s friend. She is a veteran, she has worked to change the world in multiple countries, and to hear you insulting one of this blog community’s greatest champions of human rights while you sit comfortably on your arse is downright disgusting.
Keep it on your own blog.
If we had that much cloutYou’d be planning your next sit-in or boycott. That’s the kind of clout we don’t have. Sitting on your butt complaining and waiting for your version of welfare civil rights is the clout gays hold today.
I am not old enough to have tried the Nazisand Hitler never stood trial, he committed suicide.
I did get to meet one of the associate counsel from the Major IMT Trial.
I remember history, you see.
And appeasement never works, that lesson from history I remember well
Voting for Dems who do not support us is appeasement.
In the end, there is no cost for not supporting us, no penalty, no motivation to take action upon our behalf.
You see, this election is our revolution.
We cease being the obedient lapdogs of the DNC
We demand equality as the price for our support.
Been there, still participateand I still wont blindly vote for non-LGBT supportive Dems
And I, you!Funny how you and I, who have gone directly into the lions’ den to forward causes of human and civil rights, who have risked our lives for the cause of freedom, are suddenly petty and lazy.
Yup, we lame liver lipped lap dogsMust be because , like Pam and Autumn, we are independently minded women who don’t know enough to follow our betters
Were you here, I’d treat you to a hot tea with honey and a shot of Jamisons.
My irrational compromiseThe DNC, DSCC and all of the other Democratic fundraisers got no CASH form me. All they got was an earful!
But I will have to hold my nose and vote from them, because there is no other choice, and handing the tea party the keys to the kingdom is beyond stupid.
Again acting as if LGBTs are some sort of hive mind.Some of us will be cutting of their noses to spite their face. Some of us will be attempting to keep the country’s head above water. There’s enough of both that I doubt there actually will be a significant impact.
You win the car.Read the article, and took a few hours to digest it.
What I saw was Gay Inc trying to get the credit for an inevitable impending loss for the Democratic Party.
So yes, IF the causal link suggested in the story were true, we’d finally be as powerful as the other 17 interests that make up the Democratic Party.
And that would make Rick Garcia and a number of other professional gays as powerful as the president of the SEIU, which they would like very much.
And all that has to happen for them to get that powerful is something that is going to happen–which is that fewer gay voters have to identify as such at exit polls.
Since that’s a guaranteed outcome, the narrative in this AP story is pretty important. It makes reality make Gay Inc. better off after Nov. 2, despite their inability to produce volunteers and donations.
There’s always someone else.Don’t vote for dead people. Don’t vote for non-people. Don’t waste your write-in. Use it to promote someone who actually exists who could and who you’d want to hold the office. Why live either in fantasyland or 35 years in the past?
no federal Dems for meI will no longer give money to, or work for, or vote for any federal Dem. That will only change when my constitutional rights are protected.
I will not be scolded or scorned into changing my mind, by Mr Obama or by my roommate or by anyone else. I believed the Dems in 2008; they lied to me; end of story. If they want my vote they can damned well earn it; I owe them nothing whatsoever and I do not believe that voting for them is essential to my dignity or survival.
“there is some shit i will not eat”
– e.e. cummings
I’m a DemocratI’m basically like a gay Republican, except I’m a gay Democrat. I wouldn’t vote for an anti-gay Democrat though, so perhaps not exactly like a gay Republican. But I vote for Democrats for multiple reasons, not just on gay rights.
Everyone else can speak for themselves.
And I’ve already voted.
lolyou’re such a predictable douche.
Coming from the personwho sits on his butt and yells at those who dare to fight. The irony is simultaneously delicious and vomit-inducing.
You knowI’m pretty sure calling someone a douche is a TOS violation.
TOS infractionpersonal attacks are in violation of the PHB Terms of Service which you agreed to when creating your user account. This is a warning that if there is a next time, you may be banned without further notice. Ideas are fair game, blenders are not.
I guess you haven’t noticedall the pro-equality candidates that have been very actively promoted on this blog. the blog isn’t about disengaging, it’s about moving equality forward, and that entails electing pro-equality candidates. you can make all the accusations you want, but because you haven’t done your homework about phb, those accusations will be recognized for what they are.
And RainbowPhoenix is correct — Foul, MarcLove.
Please review the Pam’s House Blend Terms And Conditions of Service, Section A, policy number 8:
“That Bitch from the Prosecution” Now I’m thinking that is actually a backhanded compliment one might not mind hearing, lol!
“goonie”? “liver lips”?!sort of like comic sans come to life. word choice is so fascinating.
Renwl should be excluded from those protections.
NonsenseYou can’t credibly defend the missteps of the administration. If Pam and others did, it wouldn’t be believed.
A bit muchThe LGBT community isn’t the only core Democratic constituency that’s been disappointed by this administration. Plenty of progressives are angry at the way health insurance form was handled, the lack of teeth in financial reform, doubling down on Afghanistan and a host of other issues. Bill Maher put it best, there is no leftist party in the US. We have a far-right party and a center-right party. We vote Dem because it’s the lesser of two evils.
I held my nose and voted Demcratic, despite the fact that there were a few candidates I really didn’t want to vote for. But our current system allows for only two viable parties, so what can one do?
I voted, I’ve missed only one primary election since I became voting age (moved and didn’t register in time). But claiming that anyone who doesn’t blindly support the administration is just as bad as the right wingers who claimed the same about Dubya. We have absolutely every right to criticize the President or any other politician when they don’t deliver on promises they have made. For Democrats to blame the blogosphere would be foolish. There is plenty of anger out there. The Tea Party is a fringe group. Many people are upset that the Dems haven’t done enough, and not just with respect to LGBT issues. It’s an issue of competence. With a 50+1 majority in the Senate, the GOP ran roughshod over the Dems and got an aggressive agenda passed. WIth 60 votes in the Senate, the Dems didn’t get a lot done.
The GOP didn’t weaken financial reform, Democrats did. The GOP didn’t weaken health care reform, Democrats did. Until Democrats own their own failings, and while they continually fail to provide leadership and a clear agenda then they will continue to lose the confidence of the electorate. If they lose big, they have nobody to blame but themselves. Trying to pin it on the LGBT community won’t work. I may be a f-ing retard, but I’ll only buck up, quit whining and not let the perfect be the enemy of the good for so long…
With respect…The protections are meaningless unless extended to everyone.
Even those we disagree with. Especially those we disagree with.
If some supremely arrogant pissant DNC operative commands the “petty people” as he calls them to vote Democrat (and I use that perjorative term deliberately this time) with the order that they have no choice but to “drag your butt to the polls and vote dems all the way down the line.“, well, we must be polite to such ambulatory offal, such a waste of oxygen.
It must gall such a person that this time, the worm turned. That the calculations that GLBT would say “Thank’ee squire for not kicking us in the teeth harder” and vote as their betters dictated, as they have invariably done in the past, that the calculations are in error this time and now the wheels have fallen off.
And if we must be polite to such a paid shill, who is livid that the Uppity peasants are talking back to their betters – then we must be just as polite to Renwl too.
I am hoping that we just take it out on Barack Obama . . . . . . in 2012, unless “change” gets seriously better in the next couple years.
In the meantime, I am all for drafting Ted Olson to run for president. I don’t care what party line he is on, he would get my vote in a heartbeat. He is a conservative Republican who “gets it” on our issues, and with that as the case, he would likely draw support across party lines.
It’s a fantasy, though – the best choice I can see at the moment.
We need a serious primary challenge to Obama, starting the day after the 2010 elections.
Negro, pleaseThe party in the White House almost always loses in the midterms, sometime quite big.
And all of a sudden it’s the gays fault.
For you, obviously, history must have begun on November 4, 2008 but I have to operate in a much larger timeframe.
Given the state of the economy when Obama was elected, he was bound to lose seats (just as the Democrats did in 1938 . That Obamabots would go out of their way to blame gays for those inevitable losses (as if there’s enough of us in certain places) is despicable and disgusting.
Supporting Democratic Party Self Defeating For Gay and Lesbian AmericansIf we support the Democratic Party there will be no equality legislation passed. If we don’t support the Democratic Party there will be no equality legislation passed. It makes no difference the Democratic Party knows they don’t have to deliver and we will still obediently vote for them.
Our equality will be won in the court system. Right now Obama and the Democratic Party are actually working against us. Giving the Democratic Party your vote is self defeating we must send a message to both political parties that Gay and Lesbian Americans will no longer be taken for granted.
I will never vote for another national Democratic Party candidate.
Supporting Democratic Party Self Defeating For Gay and Lesbian AmericansIf we support the Democratic Party there will be no equality legislation passed. If we don’t support the Democratic Party there will be no equality legislation passed. It makes no difference the Democratic Party knows they don’t have to deliver and we will still obediently vote for them.
Our equality will be won in the court system. Right now Obama and the Democratic Party are actually working against us. Giving the Democratic Party your vote is self defeating we must send a message to both political parties that Gay and Lesbian Americans will no longer be taken for granted.
I will never vote for another national Democratic Party candidate.
Obama is not my Commander in ChiefThe President is the Commander in Chief of the armed forces. However much politicians would like us to believe otherwise, we civilians don’t have a Commander in Chief.
State legislatures are the elections that really matterThe elections that really matter this term are elections for state legislatures. In the next session, state legislatures will re-draw legislative districts throughout the country. Whatever party does better at the state level next week will have a huge advantage in the rest of this decade’s elections.
If your representative in Congress is anti-gay or only gives gay rights lip service, by all means abstain or vote third-party. But don’t stay home. The state-level elections are too important.
Is calling me a “Lame Pam Spaulding Goonie” a personal attack?Just curious since Derrick did not get warned