Seems I’m getting a lot of my blogging tips today from Facebook. One friend linked an article about Bravo host Andy Cohen who, even though he executive produced the documentary, Gay Republicans, doesn’t get gay Republicans:
I’m interested in why someone would support a party that doesn’t necessarily support equality for that person. And I can only assume it’s about the wallet. It’s about ‘I’m a fiscal Republican’.
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So, I can’t — I can’t understand, Chris, the idea of saying, ‘Oh well, they’re going to put more money in my bank account. Who cares if they don’t believe I can get married?’ I don’t get it.
Hey, Andy, it’s not about equality. It’s about freedom. And we support the GOP because we believe the best government is that which governs least. You’d think that someone who would take the time to make a documentary about gay Republicans would take the time to understand their ideas.
FROM THE COMMENTS: Tim in MT offers:
Only in liberal la-la land can 2 adult men go on TV and tell each other “I don’t get it!” about other people’s ideas and think they come across as thoughtful commentators… *eyeroll*
Indeed.
Andy Cohen is a douchebag who struck reality-TV gold. Why you give him the light of day is beyond me.
Only in liberal la-la land can 2 adult men go on TV and tell each other “I don’t get it!” about other people’s ideas and think they come across as thoughtful commentators… *eyeroll*
So, would Mr. Cohen rather gay people support someone who plays politics with their sexuality just to make some money? It seems to me the politicans he and some other gay people support are all about the wallet.
No one is stopping you from getting married!
#3.. Liberal money is good. Conservative money is bad. No other way around it.
The left has a problem understanding any kind of freedom that doesn’t relate to the bedroom.
Inside the bubble. In a trance.
The right has a problem understanding any kind of freedom that doesn’t involve their own presumed entitlement to trample over others.
And Richard has an inability to answer a single question…
Such as my “presumed entitlement” to engage in Free Speech, to keep what I have earned for myself, to purchase the products and services I choose, to make my own choices about what I do with my money, to live where I choose to live and be secure in my property and effects, to freely practice my religious beliefs, to educate my children according to my own value system, to not be forced to subsidize the bad choices of other people.
These freedoms, to Ricky the Fascist, constitute “trampling over others.”
Identity politics are a terrible thing, and one of the primary reasons I jumped ship from liberalism.
What Richard R, does your comment have to do with the post to which you attach it? The post is about a man who produced a documentary on gay Republicans who doesn’t get gay Republicans.
So, you’re ignoring an actual anecdote who doesn’t understand an object of his study to offer an empty and banal bromide about the right not understanding anything.
That’s a nice little straw men you’ve got there Richard R. It would be a damn shame if someone threw a cigarette butt on it….
In the progressive utopia:
Free speech tramples on people’s right not to be offended.
Keeping your earnings tramples on people’s right to have your stuff.
Choosing which products and services you choose to purchase tramples on politicians’ right to decide what you should purchase for you.
Owning property tramples on people’s right to live on or confiscate your property free of charge.
Practicing a religion tramples on the government’s right to force you to worship it.
Educating children in your own beliefs tramples your children’s right to be indoctrinated by progressives.
Being forced not to subsidize other people’s bad decisions tramples on those people’s right to make bad decisions.
#14 — Rattlesnake, that’s as good a summary as I’ve ever seen.
B. Daniel, my comment #8 was simply a response to comment #6. But if I could do it over, I might have said, “The right has a problem understanding any kind of freedom that doesn’t involve their own presumed entitlement to trample over other people, and the earth.”
Well, Richard, your clarification doesn’t make your comment any less ill-informed. In other words, you’re still wrong and you still provide no evidence to back up your silly misrepresentation of modern conservatism.
“And the earth”?
Ah yes, the old “Republicans hate clean air and water” routine.
As shrieked by Moonbeam as he demands exemption from his own environmental regs, insider-trading multimillionaire Pelosi flying around on her taxpayer-funded carbon-spewing private airliner, Michael Moore from his massive and inefficient lake-polluting mansion, and Barack Obama from his tropical-temperature office.
Perhaps you ought to educate yourself instead of repeating Obama talking points, Richard Rush.
Of course, that is making the assumption that you are just uninformed, and not that you are blatantly and stupidly hypocritical like your Obama, Pelosi, Moore, and Moonbeam.
Richard R’s just upset that Prsident Bush did more for restoring the enviroment (and the liberties of people) than Obama did.
The left, of course, does not trample over the Earth but float above it, held aloft by their smugness and flatulence.