The Pot & The Kettle (one of whom is also “PatriotPal”, a loyal GP commenter and friend) has the dirt on New Jersey’s favorite corrupt gay ex-Governor.

McGreevey will be on Oprah in September.  The Pot isn’t impressed..

Oprah, girl, what were you thinking? Jimbo’s fifteen minutes were up a few hours ago and his book isn’t going to change that. Plus, do you really need to be chit chatting about another memoir filled with lies?

P&K also tell us that the McGayvenator has a new beau.

Are we sure these guys are gay?  Who picked our their clothing combos?  Dear God!

And to top it all off, the Advocate gives us some “TMI” dirt on the former Guv.  He cruised truck stops.

A much-anticipated memoir from the nation’s first openly gay governor is due out this fall. But excerpts from the book by former New Jersey governor James McGreevey are already causing a small storm of media hype.

In the book, titled The Confession (ReganBooks), McGreevey reveals that he once resorted to anonymous sex at highway rest stops. McGreevey, who proclaimed himself “a gay American” in 2004 while announcing his impending resignation as governor, engaged in the secret encounters because he feared having a relationship with a man would ruin his chances of success as a politician.

“So instead I settled for the detached anonymity of bookstores and rest stops as a compromise, but one that was wholly unfulfilling and morally unsatisfactory,” McGreevey writes in the book, according to the excerpts published Sunday in The [Newark, N.J.] Star-Ledger. The excerpts do not mention whether the activities took place during his tenure as governor.  

What a great role model for young gay Americans, right?  I wonder if our friends over at the HRC and NGLTF still stand behind their praise of McGreevey as “courageous” and “honest and straightforward”?

I don’t know about you, but I’m going to spend my money this summer on this book by a true gay American role model.  It is written by someone who believes in all that is good about America and stands up for her beliefs and stands behind her family.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Oh, come on.  The hysteria here by the Georgia Gays is just a riot. 

After all, Howard Dean — the head of the Democrat National Committee as well as the 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate (*snapping fingers to try to remember his name*) all have the same position on gay marriage as this Democrat candidate for Governor of Georgia…..

Georgia gubernatorial candidate faces ire of gay voters – Advocate.com

Gay voters in Georgia are threatening to boycott the state’s upcoming Democratic gubernatorial primary after one of the two candidates reversed position regarding the state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Cathy Cox, Georgia’s secretary of state, had been expected to carry the gay vote in her closely contested primary July 18 with the state’s lieutenant governor, Mark Taylor, but that was before she announced her support for a special legislative session to reinstate Georgia’s anti–marriage equality amendment, recently invalidated by a court, reports The Macon Telegraph.

Previously, Cox had said that a constitutional amendment was unnecessary because Georgia law already prohibits same-sex marriage. However, she now supports the amendment, explaining in a letter to Georgia Equality that she agrees with the state legislature’s effort to convene a special session to resolve the amendment’s legal problems so that it won’t “overshadow all other important issues” in the future, according to the Telegraph.

This should be an important message to those delusional gay Americans who think the Democrat Party actually wants to advance gay rights.  They are not.  If they believe they can win an election by pandering to the religious right, or by simply reinforcing a position most Americans hold on gay marriage… they will stab you in the back with their left hand as they take your campaign donations with the right hand.  You are just the fools that continue to write the checks while you bleed.

I am a Republican because I believe in most things the Republican Party stands for.  But gay Democrats seem to be under the increasingly false illusion that the Democrat Party is pro-gay.  No way, Jose.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Earlier this month, Log Cabin stood alone among gay groups praising Mary Cheney for telling her story and acknowledging her father’s (Vice President Dick Cheney) outspoken opposition to the Federal Marriage Amendment, noting that it was “the only time since being sworn in as Vice President that he publicly expressed disagreement with the President.” A state Log Cabin leader reminded me that yesterday Log Cabin once again praised a Republican, this time applauding the president for signing legislation banning protests at military funerals.

Fred Phelps, an anti-gay pastor, not satisfied just to protest at funerals of gays, had begun to protest at the funerals of servicemen and women who died fighting the war of Terror. That Kansas Democrat claimed “the fallen service members deserve their fate because of this country’s tolerance of gay and lesbian people.” Log Cabin President Patrick Guerriero said that the new law, the Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act, “gives the families of America’s fallen heroes the dignity and respect they deserve.”

The law bars protests within 300 feet of the entrance to a national cemetery as well as within 150 feet of a road leading to the cemetery. It’s unfortunate that crackpots like Phelps have to make spectacles of themselves by dishonoring the dead in order to attract media attention. This creep makes Madonna’s publicity stunts seem banal by comparison.

While I’m always skeptical of laws designed to limit protest, even those of creeps like Phelps, in this case, legislation seemed necessary in order to allow the families of our fallen heroes a chance to mourn their loved ones in a dignified manner. Given that this new law has been narrowly tailored, it should mass constitutional muster.

Congress and the president did the right thing. Kudos to Patrick Guerriero and Log Cabin for praising the president on this one.

-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com