Last night when I attended what Glenn Reynolds dubbed the “best party” he ever attended, I realized the scope of what my co-blogger Bruce Carroll, the GayPatriot, accomplished when he established this blog four years ago tomorrow.
Pajamas TV had organized a blogger party at the home of James Lileks. I ran into bloggers whom I had met at smaller such gatherings in LA (Mickey Kaus, Hugh Hewitt, Roger Simon), some who had recognized me from previous political and media events (National Review‘s Ramesh Ponnuru and Peter Robinson), bloggers I had schmoozed with earlier in the day (Powerline‘s John and Paul, Commentary‘s Jennifer Rubin, Townhall‘s Mary Katharine Ham, Vodkapundit‘s Stephen Green, Ed Driscoll) and bloggers and writers I only previously only known by their words in pixels, Scrappleface‘s Scott Ott, CampaignSpot‘s Jim Geraghty, the Corner‘s Mark Hemingway and Eli Lake of the New York Sun.
These weren’t the only people I met. I talked to other bloggers, a relator or two, an advertising executive, Hill staffers, radio hosts, etc. One thing which stood out though was how familiar the guests at this gathering (some pictures here) were with this blog. When I identified myself, they recognized the blog and greeted me warmly.
So, kudos to Bruce Carroll for establishing this blog and help gay conservatives find welcome in the right-of-center blogging community.
Bruce, I am in your debt.
Bruce, we are ALL in your debt. You are the father of conservative gay blogging – Andrea Sullington can’t hold a candle to you!
Wishing you many more years of taking on the libtard left.
Regards,
Peter H.
How wonderful! I’m jealous!
You didn’t mention that John Ondrasik was performing!!! I love him!
Thank you Bruce for getting this ball rolling, in more ways than you can know, you have been a source of good in this world. Bringing like minded people together being one of the most important ones
Careful. Too many fabulous parties makes you an insider … next thing you know, you’re writing for Huffington Post. 🙂 LOL
Bask in your task.
(And ditto #3.)
BOOSH!!!
Congrats on tomorrow’s blogiversary, btw.
Dan and Bruce, just in case you guys don’t know it…..you were my inspiration to blog in the first place, and you’ve been great friends ever since. I’m lucky to know you both.
My only criticism of Bruce is his low standards in commenters. Any decent blog would have banned me a long time ago. 😉
#8
Well I keep b*tching to Bruce, but he just ignores my e-mails. 😉
Bruce,
You should hear what my conservative relatives say about you and all other gay human beings. It’s disgusting. You are less than human to those people. They hate you as much as they hate taxes, environmentalists, feminists, teachers, unions, war opponents and other “liberals”.
I asked them what they thought about gay conservatives. My uncle laughed and said, “We’ll take their votes. But I don’t want them near me. We’ll take votes from anyone and then deal with them later.” When I asked what “deal with them” meant, he avoided the question. But I didn’t like the look in his eyes.
Do you think you’re being played, Bruce?
JimCap,
That experience sounds exactly like the ones I have with liberals up here in Western Wisconsin. I argued that gay and democrat seems to go together everywhere. I was told that we (democrats) will take their votes but what have the democrats as a whole ever done for them? If democrats in gay areas have to say they’re for gay rights, that’s fines as long as they don’t do anything about it. Tammy Baldwin is a lesbian congressional representative from Madison. When did she push for gay marriage, adoption or even mandatory civil unions for states that don’t currently allow it? My question to you Jim Cap is……
Do you think you are being played?
Do you even care?