Comments on: Harold Ford, Jr. Can’t Pass Muster with Gay PC Thought Police

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:55:04 +0000

They won’t like his record on gun rights much up there either.

By: Conservative Guy

Conservative Guy — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:20:35 +0000

“Enemies of the state”? The Gay Rights movement has always used the language of Communism. In the early to mid 1970s, they called their movement “Gay Liberation” or “Gay Lib” for short, which was a nod to the National Liberation Front (Vietcong). In the 1980s, it was fashionable among the Gay Rights crowd to call things either “politically correct” or “politically incorrect.” That terminology came directly out of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution in Communist China. “Enemy of the people” is a phrase from the Soviet Union.

By: Mitchell Blatt

Mitchell Blatt — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:43:58 +0000

Gillibrand isn’t much of a supporter of gay issues herself…

By: The_Livewire

The_Livewire — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:59:29 +0000

looks like you spelled ‘viting’ correctly’

Please let us know what you find.

By: Harry834

Harry834 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:50:45 +0000

than I’m going to learn how to spell “viting”…

By: Harry834

Harry834 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:49:12 +0000

I’m going to email Empire Pride and hunt a bit online for that viting record. I’m on the case…

By: B. Daniel Blatt

B. Daniel Blatt — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:35:58 +0000

Harry, good questions. Friendliness to staff is more a sign of their quality as a human being than their qualifications as legislators. I have heard that Dianne Feinstein, for example, is a good person, respectful of her critics, but have yet to vote for her, even though se has appeared on the ballot twice since I moved to CA.

By: Harry834

Harry834 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:19:33 +0000

I’d also ask, don’t we all want candidates to have the views we share, or close to? How would you feel about a candidate who was otherwise good, but believed in raising taxes?

By: Harry834

Harry834 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:16:44 +0000

I share your appreciation of legislators who are friendly to their staffs, and hate the thought of legislators who are good on their votiong records but bad to their staffs, and perhaps still “invaluable” because of the record. Those “angry gays” may still have to make their case on the bad voting record, and maybe I can email them this post. But I ask, do you think that friendliness to the staff necessarilly correlates with voting reliably – not just a candidate promise – on issues of gay rights?