The Advocate Names GayPatriot As A Top Political Blog
This came out last week, but I just haven’t able to get to it. So finally, here it is. And it is quite a nice write-up, to my surprise.
GayPatriot: Admittedly, many liberal gays probably would prefer to surround themselves with others who love the idea of universal health care and roar loudly for hate-crimes legislation. But Bruce Carroll and Dan Blatt at GayPatriot challenge all LGBT folks to question their leaders — political and not — and the issues that identify them. Though we might not agree with everything said there, GayPatriot provokes conversation, which all good political blogs should do. Besides, the greater GOP is not exactly in high regard right now, and the party’s gays and their allies may be the ones who whip out the defibrillators to revive the compassionate heart of the Right. Technorati rank: 5,340
I’m encouraged that perhaps the gay media (or at least one outlet) has finally started to come around and recognize the place that a gay conservative voice has in the world of political discourse.
It also does my heart a lot of good to see our Technorati rank at 5,340. While Michael Rogers’ Blogactive sits way down at a Technorati rank of 40,107. Bwa-ha-ha-ha. Sorry, had to do it.
Thanks again to the folks at The Advocate for talkin’ us up!
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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Another congrats!
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — July 8, 2009 @ 5:12 pm - July 8, 2009
An admission the Right has a heart of compassion, even if they want it demonstrated with policies of the Left. Baby steps.
Comment by Ignatius — July 8, 2009 @ 5:20 pm - July 8, 2009
Hey guys, that’s awesome – congrats!
Comment by Neptune — July 8, 2009 @ 5:26 pm - July 8, 2009
Gratz Bruce … now let’s brace for another invasion of dim-witted trolls babbling “like Jews for Hitler.”
Comment by V the K — July 8, 2009 @ 5:40 pm - July 8, 2009
Did they mention me?
Comment by Ashpenaz — July 8, 2009 @ 6:06 pm - July 8, 2009
Bruce and Dan – Congrats!
But be prepared for the deluge of hate that’s sure to follow.
Comment by sonicfrog — July 8, 2009 @ 6:19 pm - July 8, 2009
Great job guys! You aren’t only scoring points with the gays. Last night at our west coast GP dinner, one of the attendees is a lovely Christian, 21 year old female college student, who loves politics and medieval studies.
As more blogs hit the dust (Dr. Sanity for one) there is definitely a need for the intelligent conversation that goes on here.
Comment by Leah — July 8, 2009 @ 7:31 pm - July 8, 2009
Yet another incarnation of liberals’ aversion to facts. They latch onto something that was once true and declare it true for all time.
Unfortunately for them, its the Democrat Party that is not in high regard right now.
As of yesterday, Americans prefer Republicans to Democrats for congress next year 41% to 38% according to Rassmussen. The numbers werent even that good leading up to the 1994 Republican landslide. Obama’s passion index is down to -5%, meaning 5% more Americans strongly disapprove of his performance than strongly approve, his approval rating is down to 52% (below 50% if it were weighted accurately), and the American people oppose virtually everything on the Obama/Democrat agenda.
That said, congrats on the Advocate mention. That explains the new lib commenters this past week.
Comment by American Elephant — July 8, 2009 @ 7:37 pm - July 8, 2009
Neither party is in high regard right now.
Comment by V the K — July 8, 2009 @ 7:47 pm - July 8, 2009
BOOSH!!!
Yeah, I was wondering where those folks were coming from. If we don’t get anymore bandwidth/oxygen thieves like Snerd, I’ll be happy.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — July 8, 2009 @ 7:50 pm - July 8, 2009
I love GP. It is a great place to get another perspective.
Comment by rusty — July 8, 2009 @ 7:59 pm - July 8, 2009
What V said!!!
Comment by sonicfrog — July 8, 2009 @ 8:08 pm - July 8, 2009
May your ranking someday trammel that of HuffPo.
Comment by Scott Spiegel — July 8, 2009 @ 8:26 pm - July 8, 2009
Very well done indeed!
Comment by Lorenzo — July 8, 2009 @ 8:28 pm - July 8, 2009
Congrats.
Comment by The_Livewire — July 8, 2009 @ 8:29 pm - July 8, 2009
Off Topic:
Geraldo called out all those fair weather friends and celebs who are gushing about the star at the Michael Jackson memorial, who treated him like a pariah during the molestation trials. If you recall, Geraldo was one of the very few who were willing to go on the record and support Jackson’s innocence.
I never thought he was guilty of sex acts simply because it seems there would have been a lot more families lining up to get their pound of flesh.
Comment by sonicfrog — July 8, 2009 @ 8:34 pm - July 8, 2009
Congratulations! Well deserved.
Comment by Kt — July 8, 2009 @ 9:30 pm - July 8, 2009
Fixed it.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — July 8, 2009 @ 10:03 pm - July 8, 2009
P.S. Since it is off-topic, rather than have a long Jackson discussion here, see this thread:
http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/07/michael-jackson-memorial-circus-real-heroes/
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — July 8, 2009 @ 10:04 pm - July 8, 2009
Cool. Well done.
Comment by SoCalRobert — July 8, 2009 @ 10:45 pm - July 8, 2009
By the way – GayPatriot got a relatively friendly mention (with correct URL) on Radio Derb (NRO) a couple of weeks back.
Comment by SoCalRobert — July 8, 2009 @ 10:48 pm - July 8, 2009
V,
Yes, neither party is in high regard right now, which is infuriating in itself — that Republicans are not doing much better than they are only emphasizes their cowardice-based political incompetence.
But that authors implication was that Democrats are more popular than Republicans, I was only pointing out that the reverse is true.
Comment by American Elephant — July 8, 2009 @ 11:10 pm - July 8, 2009
Oh, and that given the historical tendency of that kind of polling to favor Democrats, Republicans are probably doing better than the polls suggest. The polls, for example, did not predict the sweeping nature of the Republican landslide in 1994.
Comment by American Elephant — July 8, 2009 @ 11:13 pm - July 8, 2009
You go girls!
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — July 11, 2009 @ 12:28 pm - July 11, 2009