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	<title>Comments on: Midsummer Strategy Memo for John McCain</title>
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		<title>By: Peter Hughes</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/07/08/midsummer-strategy-memo-for-john-mccain/comment-page-1/#comment-259648</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hughes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#21 - &quot;in fact, republicans declare at least once a week, and twice on sunday, that YOU, the gay person, are an abomination.&quot;

Please provide authentic proof that such a practice exists.  If not, feel free to depart and take your BDS with you.

I can say with certainty that I&#039;ve been treated better as a gay man by the GOP than I have as a conservative at my local gay bar.  Who is the bigot, again?

Regards,
Peter H.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#21 &#8211; &#8220;in fact, republicans declare at least once a week, and twice on sunday, that YOU, the gay person, are an abomination.&#8221;</p>
<p>Please provide authentic proof that such a practice exists.  If not, feel free to depart and take your BDS with you.</p>
<p>I can say with certainty that I&#8217;ve been treated better as a gay man by the GOP than I have as a conservative at my local gay bar.  Who is the bigot, again?</p>
<p>Regards,<br />
Peter H.</p>
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		<title>By: Vince P</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vince P</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>pattycake: I think for myself.I dont need petty ideological thugs like you to coerce me to follow a path that you determine for everyone like the Fascist collectivist you are.  

I believe in Liberty not mindcontrol. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>pattycake: I think for myself.I dont need petty ideological thugs like you to coerce me to follow a path that you determine for everyone like the Fascist collectivist you are.  </p>
<p>I believe in Liberty not mindcontrol.</p>
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		<title>By: pattycake</title>
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		<dc:creator>pattycake</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>are you people willfully stupid or do you just really hate yourselves?

perhaps you can&#039;t read or process information through your ears.

i&#039;m going to tell you something that is pretty widely understood pretty much everywhere, except here, apparently: 

the republican party specifically, wholeheartedly, loudly and frequently, rejects YOU, the gay person.  in fact, republicans declare at least once a week, and twice on sunday, that YOU, the gay person, are an abomination.

how do your heads just not explode?  is there something about being especially stupid that keeps the brainplate in place under that much pressure?

i find puzzling why anyone would willingly self-identify with a group which disputes your basic right to exist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>are you people willfully stupid or do you just really hate yourselves?</p>
<p>perhaps you can&#8217;t read or process information through your ears.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m going to tell you something that is pretty widely understood pretty much everywhere, except here, apparently: </p>
<p>the republican party specifically, wholeheartedly, loudly and frequently, rejects YOU, the gay person.  in fact, republicans declare at least once a week, and twice on sunday, that YOU, the gay person, are an abomination.</p>
<p>how do your heads just not explode?  is there something about being especially stupid that keeps the brainplate in place under that much pressure?</p>
<p>i find puzzling why anyone would willingly self-identify with a group which disputes your basic right to exist.</p>
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		<title>By: Rocket</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rocket</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As to Barnes&#039; comments, the country is in a different place then in 2004. Our economy sucks, national security issue still exist and people care more about keeping their jobs and their health insurance and having to decide between food or gas for their car then whether or not I and other Gays and Lesbians get married. Quite frankly, Dumboma&#039;s position on same sex marriage (he is opposed) is no different then McCain, whom to me has a better track record and stood up for our community in 2004 when it cost him (he was one of the few Republicans to vocally stand with us and oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment). I am voting for McCain because I trust him on national security, he will work hard to cut federal spending, create a balanced budget, keep tax cuts and cut taxes, appoint strict constructionists to the federal bench, create energy independence and do something serious about entitlements. I am sure he will pick a decent VP choice and be the true reform candidate. He won&#039;t need to change positions every 5 seconds like Obama and we will know what we get with McCain. I notice he has gone back and reaffirmed that he will stand first for border security and I only wish he would change his position on Anwar (my Lord if you are going to drill deep in the oceans (and it is environmentally safe or else oil companies would face zillions of lawsuits) then you can make it environmentally safe in Anwar (you don&#039;t hear of problems in Alaska drilling in the first place.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As to Barnes&#8217; comments, the country is in a different place then in 2004. Our economy sucks, national security issue still exist and people care more about keeping their jobs and their health insurance and having to decide between food or gas for their car then whether or not I and other Gays and Lesbians get married. Quite frankly, Dumboma&#8217;s position on same sex marriage (he is opposed) is no different then McCain, whom to me has a better track record and stood up for our community in 2004 when it cost him (he was one of the few Republicans to vocally stand with us and oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment). I am voting for McCain because I trust him on national security, he will work hard to cut federal spending, create a balanced budget, keep tax cuts and cut taxes, appoint strict constructionists to the federal bench, create energy independence and do something serious about entitlements. I am sure he will pick a decent VP choice and be the true reform candidate. He won&#8217;t need to change positions every 5 seconds like Obama and we will know what we get with McCain. I notice he has gone back and reaffirmed that he will stand first for border security and I only wish he would change his position on Anwar (my Lord if you are going to drill deep in the oceans (and it is environmentally safe or else oil companies would face zillions of lawsuits) then you can make it environmentally safe in Anwar (you don&#8217;t hear of problems in Alaska drilling in the first place.)</p>
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		<title>By: GayPatriot &#187; Fred Barnes&#8217; Bad Advice to John McCain</title>
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		<dc:creator>GayPatriot &#187; Fred Barnes&#8217; Bad Advice to John McCain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] to prevent social conservative voters from staying home did readers either via e-mail or in a comment ask me in the words of this post, whether gay Republicans would tolerate the Barnes [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] to prevent social conservative voters from staying home did readers either via e-mail or in a comment ask me in the words of this post, whether gay Republicans would tolerate the Barnes [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Rocket</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/07/08/midsummer-strategy-memo-for-john-mccain/comment-page-1/#comment-253641</link>
		<dc:creator>Rocket</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>as an aside, I am Gay and you will be surprised to learn that Barack Hussein Obama will not have a huge well of support in the GLBT community as one thinks. BHO talks out of both sides of his mouth on same sex marriage and associates himself with homophobic ministers....as the saying goes he &quot;talks pretty&quot; to GLBT groups but his conduct is anything but GLBT friendly in my opinion. 

McCain has not engaged in virulent anti Gay conduct and stood with us and stood up to oppose the federal marriage amendment to the Constitution and took a states&#039; rights view that marriage is traditionally left to the states to decide under the federal constitution, which is correct. 

I wish McCain would come out for DADT but there is no saying that won&#039;t eventually crumble as a policy and it is the Congress that will have to repeal it and the Democratic Congress hasn&#039;t done a thing to repeal it nor will they.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>as an aside, I am Gay and you will be surprised to learn that Barack Hussein Obama will not have a huge well of support in the GLBT community as one thinks. BHO talks out of both sides of his mouth on same sex marriage and associates himself with homophobic ministers&#8230;.as the saying goes he &#8220;talks pretty&#8221; to GLBT groups but his conduct is anything but GLBT friendly in my opinion. </p>
<p>McCain has not engaged in virulent anti Gay conduct and stood with us and stood up to oppose the federal marriage amendment to the Constitution and took a states&#8217; rights view that marriage is traditionally left to the states to decide under the federal constitution, which is correct. </p>
<p>I wish McCain would come out for DADT but there is no saying that won&#8217;t eventually crumble as a policy and it is the Congress that will have to repeal it and the Democratic Congress hasn&#8217;t done a thing to repeal it nor will they.</p>
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		<title>By: Rocket</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rocket</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You can&#039;t eat &quot;hope&quot; and &quot;hope&quot; doesn&#039;t pay our bills. I like a lot of what was said in the article. It is dead on accurate. McCain should stick to reform as his theme...we need fiscal reform to make sure we solve our entitlement problems (as stated in the article we have at least 86 trillion dollars in unfunded mandates just with Medicaire/Medicaid and Social Security. I for one that Bush (whom I do not see as a conservative..in today&#039;s dollars he outspent LBJ on the federal budget) should not have added prescription drugs as an entitlement (particularly where he didn&#039;t allow the federal government to use bulk purchases and negotiating to get lower prices from the drug companies). 

Anyway, how about McCain engage in what Ronald Reagan did (pick three themes and stick to them: energy independence, national security (including homeland security...there&#039;s a way to help create jobs by fixing our infrastructure, protecting our ports, roads, waterways, setc.), fiscal conservative in solving our budget issues and 
solve entitlement funding and cut taxes. 

And keep hammering those issues home the way Reagan did with his tax cuts, national defense/security and getting government off our backs as he did in 1980 and fixing our economy. It worked then, it would work now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can&#8217;t eat &#8220;hope&#8221; and &#8220;hope&#8221; doesn&#8217;t pay our bills. I like a lot of what was said in the article. It is dead on accurate. McCain should stick to reform as his theme&#8230;we need fiscal reform to make sure we solve our entitlement problems (as stated in the article we have at least 86 trillion dollars in unfunded mandates just with Medicaire/Medicaid and Social Security. I for one that Bush (whom I do not see as a conservative..in today&#8217;s dollars he outspent LBJ on the federal budget) should not have added prescription drugs as an entitlement (particularly where he didn&#8217;t allow the federal government to use bulk purchases and negotiating to get lower prices from the drug companies). </p>
<p>Anyway, how about McCain engage in what Ronald Reagan did (pick three themes and stick to them: energy independence, national security (including homeland security&#8230;there&#8217;s a way to help create jobs by fixing our infrastructure, protecting our ports, roads, waterways, setc.), fiscal conservative in solving our budget issues and<br />
solve entitlement funding and cut taxes. </p>
<p>And keep hammering those issues home the way Reagan did with his tax cuts, national defense/security and getting government off our backs as he did in 1980 and fixing our economy. It worked then, it would work now.</p>
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		<title>By: ThatGayConservative</title>
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		<dc:creator>ThatGayConservative</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;NDT, I swear you have that comment on speed dial.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Doesn&#039;t make it any less true. Yeah it gets old, but it&#039;s a constant reminder of liberal duplicity and stupidity.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>NDT, I swear you have that comment on speed dial.</p></blockquote>
<p>Doesn&#8217;t make it any less true. Yeah it gets old, but it&#8217;s a constant reminder of liberal duplicity and stupidity.</p>
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		<title>By: HollywoodBill</title>
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		<dc:creator>HollywoodBill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The California Supreme Court was doing its job when it ruled that Prop22 was illegal.  Just because California voters want something that doesn&#039;t make it legal.  They are empowered to do exactly what they did.  Prop22 did not amend California&#039;s constitution.  The amendment which I believe is tentatively called Proposition8 will most certainly amend the California constitution and overrule the Supreme Court ruling.

California was moving in the direction of same sex marriage and there was a real possibility that the amendment would have been defeated at the ballot box.  The Supreme Court&#039;s refusal to stay their ruling until after the election is pissing people off.  They have actually muddied the whole issue and it could turn Prop8 into a case against judicial activism.

I&#039;m totally with McCain on the issue.  Let the voters decide.  CNN did a poll for 2004 and found that 30% of the gay voters were Republicans.  How they managed to figure out who&#039;s who is a question that is still unanswered.  The lesbians I&#039;ve talked to are furious about how Hillary was treated.  Anecdotal evidence at best.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The California Supreme Court was doing its job when it ruled that Prop22 was illegal.  Just because California voters want something that doesn&#8217;t make it legal.  They are empowered to do exactly what they did.  Prop22 did not amend California&#8217;s constitution.  The amendment which I believe is tentatively called Proposition8 will most certainly amend the California constitution and overrule the Supreme Court ruling.</p>
<p>California was moving in the direction of same sex marriage and there was a real possibility that the amendment would have been defeated at the ballot box.  The Supreme Court&#8217;s refusal to stay their ruling until after the election is pissing people off.  They have actually muddied the whole issue and it could turn Prop8 into a case against judicial activism.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m totally with McCain on the issue.  Let the voters decide.  CNN did a poll for 2004 and found that 30% of the gay voters were Republicans.  How they managed to figure out who&#8217;s who is a question that is still unanswered.  The lesbians I&#8217;ve talked to are furious about how Hillary was treated.  Anecdotal evidence at best.</p>
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		<title>By: Henry</title>
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		<dc:creator>Henry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Given that gay Democrats and liberals like Jason not only tolerate, but endorse and support with tens of millions of dollars and chants of â€œpro-gayâ€ and â€œgay-supportive...&lt;/blockquote&gt;

NDT, I swear you have that comment on speed dial.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Given that gay Democrats and liberals like Jason not only tolerate, but endorse and support with tens of millions of dollars and chants of â€œpro-gayâ€ and â€œgay-supportive&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>NDT, I swear you have that comment on speed dial.</p>
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		<title>By: Hunter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hunter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jean,

I think McCain&#039;s support is wider than it might seem.  My sister is a die hard liberal...a Kuchinich supporter, and not that Hillary is out of the race, her vote is for McCain.  A couple of her friends, who are also truly left-wingers, said the same thing.  They see Obama as the empty suit he is, and just don&#039;t trust him to be President.  Further, they don&#039;t like that McCain is a Repub, but at least he is not a far right Bible thumper.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jean,</p>
<p>I think McCain&#8217;s support is wider than it might seem.  My sister is a die hard liberal&#8230;a Kuchinich supporter, and not that Hillary is out of the race, her vote is for McCain.  A couple of her friends, who are also truly left-wingers, said the same thing.  They see Obama as the empty suit he is, and just don&#8217;t trust him to be President.  Further, they don&#8217;t like that McCain is a Repub, but at least he is not a far right Bible thumper.</p>
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		<title>By: North Dallas Thirty</title>
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		<dc:creator>North Dallas Thirty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Will gay Republicans tolerate the Barnes Option?&lt;/i&gt;

Given that gay Democrats and liberals like Jason not only tolerate, but endorse and support with tens of millions of dollars and chants of &quot;pro-gay&quot; and &quot;gay-supportive&quot;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001999067_kerrygay07.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; state constitutional amendment supporters&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2007/02/lets-see-if-we-can-follow-bouncing.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; FMA supporters&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washblade.com/2008/1-18/view/editorial/11894.cfm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; people who openly discriminate against gay employees&lt;/a&gt;, it seems odd that they&#039;re up in arms over this, doesn&#039;t it?

Of course, those of us who had a class in psychology can recognize this as a coping mechanism; since they themselves are too cowardly and fearful to stop endorsing the Democrat Party and its on-demand use of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonblade.com/blog/index.cfm?blog_id=169&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Clinton option&lt;/a&gt;, they project it onto others.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Will gay Republicans tolerate the Barnes Option?</i></p>
<p>Given that gay Democrats and liberals like Jason not only tolerate, but endorse and support with tens of millions of dollars and chants of &#8220;pro-gay&#8221; and &#8220;gay-supportive&#8221;, <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001999067_kerrygay07.html" rel="nofollow"> state constitutional amendment supporters</a>, <a href="http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2007/02/lets-see-if-we-can-follow-bouncing.html" rel="nofollow"> FMA supporters</a>, and <a href="http://www.washblade.com/2008/1-18/view/editorial/11894.cfm" rel="nofollow"> people who openly discriminate against gay employees</a>, it seems odd that they&#8217;re up in arms over this, doesn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>Of course, those of us who had a class in psychology can recognize this as a coping mechanism; since they themselves are too cowardly and fearful to stop endorsing the Democrat Party and its on-demand use of the <a href="http://www.washingtonblade.com/blog/index.cfm?blog_id=169" rel="nofollow"> Clinton option</a>, they project it onto others.</p>
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		<title>By: sonicfrog</title>
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		<dc:creator>sonicfrog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woke up at 3 a.m. and couldn&#039;t get back to sleep. So here I am.

John McCain has a problem. A good chunk of the base just does not like him. Probably never will. If I had a dollar for all the times I&#039;ve heard conservative pundits and radio hosts whine that McCain just isn&#039;t conservative enough, well, I&#039;d have bought a Porsche or something. But McCain does have two issues he could use to greatly increase his chances of winning this election - Drill, Drill, Drill, to steal the mantra from Larry Kudlow, and produce a better economic plan that A) curbs govt spending, and B) increases the value of the dollar. His current plan is based on keeping the tax cuts (OK) but there has got to be a real plan to start decreasing the hideous, out of control growth of government spending we&#039;ve seen, especially in the last eight years. This has to be addressed.

I disagrees with Krystal&#039;s &quot;frittered away&quot; argument. McCain has a great disadvantage in the finance dept. and since he didn&#039;t know who he was campaigning against, he had a 50/50 chance of campaigning against the wrong figurehead. This is very much an &quot;opportunity cost&quot; dilemma. Any money spent during the primaries, is money he will not have to use during the general election. Plus, there was nothing McCain could have possibly done to compete with the Clinton / Obama cat fight. He could have set himself on fire and hardly anyone would have noticed.

OK. It&#039;s now 5 in the a.m.. I&#039;m going to see if I can catch a few ZZZ&#039;s.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woke up at 3 a.m. and couldn&#8217;t get back to sleep. So here I am.</p>
<p>John McCain has a problem. A good chunk of the base just does not like him. Probably never will. If I had a dollar for all the times I&#8217;ve heard conservative pundits and radio hosts whine that McCain just isn&#8217;t conservative enough, well, I&#8217;d have bought a Porsche or something. But McCain does have two issues he could use to greatly increase his chances of winning this election &#8211; Drill, Drill, Drill, to steal the mantra from Larry Kudlow, and produce a better economic plan that A) curbs govt spending, and B) increases the value of the dollar. His current plan is based on keeping the tax cuts (OK) but there has got to be a real plan to start decreasing the hideous, out of control growth of government spending we&#8217;ve seen, especially in the last eight years. This has to be addressed.</p>
<p>I disagrees with Krystal&#8217;s &#8220;frittered away&#8221; argument. McCain has a great disadvantage in the finance dept. and since he didn&#8217;t know who he was campaigning against, he had a 50/50 chance of campaigning against the wrong figurehead. This is very much an &#8220;opportunity cost&#8221; dilemma. Any money spent during the primaries, is money he will not have to use during the general election. Plus, there was nothing McCain could have possibly done to compete with the Clinton / Obama cat fight. He could have set himself on fire and hardly anyone would have noticed.</p>
<p>OK. It&#8217;s now 5 in the a.m.. I&#8217;m going to see if I can catch a few ZZZ&#8217;s.</p>
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		<title>By: ThatGayConservative</title>
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		<dc:creator>ThatGayConservative</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#7
My favorite is how Don&#039;tThink/Regress.com spun it into Fred Barnes calling for gay bashing. While the liberal douchebags assail Barnes for playing the fear card, they&#039;re not above doing it themselves.

The left lacks honesty once again. And liberals can&#039;t figure out why so many folks won&#039;t bend over and grab their ankles.</description>
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My favorite is how Don&#8217;tThink/Regress.com spun it into Fred Barnes calling for gay bashing. While the liberal douchebags assail Barnes for playing the fear card, they&#8217;re not above doing it themselves.</p>
<p>The left lacks honesty once again. And liberals can&#8217;t figure out why so many folks won&#8217;t bend over and grab their ankles.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark J. Goluskin</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/07/08/midsummer-strategy-memo-for-john-mccain/comment-page-1/#comment-251817</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark J. Goluskin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Most of what you wrote is spot on. Sen. &quot;F--- You&quot; McCain has got to stop this &quot;I&#039;m going to run a respectful campaign&quot; garbage and go for the throat. I warned last year about Sen. Messiah Barack. And, underneath all that &quot;change&quot; and &quot;hope&quot; is a ruthless politcian. I only disagree, respectfully, on the issue of same-sex marriage. Look what happend here in California. Four supreme court justices took away the legislative right to determine the law. This is what sets back the cause that many gays and lesbians seek. Honest debate is the only way to change hearts and minds. When imperial courts do that, you get over 30 years still debating about abortion and meanwhile 30,000,000 potential human beings will never be born. I digress. One thing to add. I hope that Sen. &quot;F--- You&quot; McCain DOES flip-flop and seek drilling in ANWR. He can get away with it but will have to do so in an artful manner. I think that people will be forgiving as gas reaches $5 a gallon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of what you wrote is spot on. Sen. &#8220;F&#8212; You&#8221; McCain has got to stop this &#8220;I&#8217;m going to run a respectful campaign&#8221; garbage and go for the throat. I warned last year about Sen. Messiah Barack. And, underneath all that &#8220;change&#8221; and &#8220;hope&#8221; is a ruthless politcian. I only disagree, respectfully, on the issue of same-sex marriage. Look what happend here in California. Four supreme court justices took away the legislative right to determine the law. This is what sets back the cause that many gays and lesbians seek. Honest debate is the only way to change hearts and minds. When imperial courts do that, you get over 30 years still debating about abortion and meanwhile 30,000,000 potential human beings will never be born. I digress. One thing to add. I hope that Sen. &#8220;F&#8212; You&#8221; McCain DOES flip-flop and seek drilling in ANWR. He can get away with it but will have to do so in an artful manner. I think that people will be forgiving as gas reaches $5 a gallon.</p>
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		<title>By: GayPatriotWest</title>
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		<dc:creator>GayPatriotWest</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Um, Jason in #7, the answer is in the post where I wrote:  &quot;Fred Barnes is wrong that you should make an issue of gay marriage.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Um, Jason in #7, the answer is in the post where I wrote:  &#8220;Fred Barnes is wrong that you should make an issue of gay marriage.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: jason</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/07/08/midsummer-strategy-memo-for-john-mccain/comment-page-1/#comment-251742</link>
		<dc:creator>jason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Will gay Republicans tolerate the Barnes Option?</description>
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		<title>By: jason</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/07/08/midsummer-strategy-memo-for-john-mccain/comment-page-1/#comment-251741</link>
		<dc:creator>jason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.gaypolitics.com/?p=585</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.gaypolitics.com/?p=585" rel="nofollow">http://www.gaypolitics.com/?p=585</a></p>
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		<title>By: ThatGayConservative</title>
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		<dc:creator>ThatGayConservative</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I think your biography tour was a stroke of political genius, helping to define who you were by what youâ€™ve done (and experienced).&lt;/blockquote&gt;

We should expect the same from Hopey McChange (sorry V) any day now, right?


Any day now.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I think your biography tour was a stroke of political genius, helping to define who you were by what youâ€™ve done (and experienced).</p></blockquote>
<p>We should expect the same from Hopey McChange (sorry V) any day now, right?</p>
<p>Any day now&#8230;..</p>
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		<title>By: Vince P</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vince P</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Iâ€™m not sure how one campaigns against that.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

By calling him (Obama) the fascist that he is.

That&#039;s the only way.. but McCain aint going to do that.  No politician is willing to actualy defend this country from internal enemies.

And you Lefties reading this better ask yourselves why you buying into a very literal and in-your-face Cult of Personality.

What is wrong with you?  Are you  that power mad?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Iâ€™m not sure how one campaigns against that.</p></blockquote>
<p>By calling him (Obama) the fascist that he is.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the only way.. but McCain aint going to do that.  No politician is willing to actualy defend this country from internal enemies.</p>
<p>And you Lefties reading this better ask yourselves why you buying into a very literal and in-your-face Cult of Personality.</p>
<p>What is wrong with you?  Are you  that power mad?</p>
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