http://www.gaypatriot.net The Internet home for American gay conservatives. Sun, 11 May 2008 21:40:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In his essay "The Hubris of Politics," (which I discovered to my delight in his new book The Politics of Freedom: Taking on the Left, the Right, and Threats to Our Liberties), my friend David Boaz talks about the problem of a Sunday paper asking students to write to a ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/11/conservative-notion-of-gay-rights-essentially-nonpolitical/ When I called the PatriotMomWest this morning to wish her a Happy Mother's Day, our conversation ranged from family matters to matters educational, intellectual and political. A Democrat, my Mom expressed frustration with the two Senators running for her party's presidential nomination: "When Democrats have such a ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/11/disgruntled-divided-democrats/ Hey, I just noticed this and thought I should make mention of it. As of today we have reached 1.776 million visitors (and change). Ya know -- 1776!!! A GayPatriotic milestone if there ever was one! As always, thanks to our great readers for another notable milestone! -Bruce (GayPatriot) http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/10/gaypatriot-readership-hits-notable-mark/ Some objected to my suggestion that London's new Tory Mayor Boris Johnson might be a hero to gay conservatives because he saw accepting gay marriage akin to consecrating unions "between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog." I grant the Mayor's analogy is a ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/10/of-marriage-sexual-difference/ Reading earlier this week that Hillary Clinton made another multi-million dollar loan to her campaign, $6.4 million earlier this month (on top of $5 million earlier this year), I wondered where has all her money gone. The media has focused on the vast sums her rival, Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama, ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/10/where-did-hillarys-money-go/ As Hillary's quest for the Democratic nomination which once seemed inevitable now seems impossible, a number of people are speculating why she lost. I have long believed her personality would make it difficult for Mrs. Clinton to win. In this campaign, as Karl Rove put it she "came across as calculating, ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/09/why-hillary-lost/ In Yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove, former adviser to President Bush wrote that presumptive Republican nominee John McCain is realistic enough to know he will fall behind Mr. Obama once the Democratic nomination is settled. He's steeled himself and his team for that moment. And he's comforted by a belief ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/09/may-polls-presidential-elections/ With both parties' nominees all but selected, I was wondering something about this summer's political conventions. Will the most recent Democratic president losing favor with a broad swath of his party's rank and file, will he be speaking at their August confab in Denver? And given the incumbent Republican president's low approval ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/09/will-bill-be-in-denver-will-w-be-in-st-paul/ Well into my early adulthood, I used to imagine I would one day meet Julie Andrews; it would be like a reunion with my childhood nanny, called away to pursue a theatrical career after spending only a short time with our family. But, that short time left a profound ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/08/of-julie-andrews-home-her-mentors/ Right after posting my piece, John McCain & the Gay Vote, I e-mailed Washington Blade Editor Kevin Naff encouraging him to link it on the Blade's Blogwatch. Readily assenting, he alerted me to a post he had just posted on the presidential election. After reading it, I wrote back, taking ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/08/a-get-on-mccains-share-of-the-gay-vote/ Welcome Andrew Sullivan Readers! One of the reasons I am such a fan of Rudy Giuliani is that he was a true conservative on the issues which mattered most to me, cutting spending and protecting citizens as Mayor and advocating a tough stand against terrorism as a presidential candidate. While ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/08/londons-new-mayor-hero-to-gay-conservatives/ Shortly after posting my piece where I put forward my belief that the race for the Democratic presidential nomination is over, I perused the blogs to read what others were saying about the state of the campaign. Hugh wrote he didn't expect Hillary "to bail, at least not until the final ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/08/could-rezko-save-hillary/ When I drove cross country last fall, I often turned off my CD player so as to better let my thoughts wander. A number of ideas came to me, some of which I have addressed on this blog. One of the first notions which which popped ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/08/the-real-meaning-of-gay-marriage/ Now that Barack Obama has all but cinched the Democratic nomination, I am going to offer a prediction which will likely upset some of the Illinois Senator's most enthusiastic gay supporters in the netroots. Obama will receive the lowest share of the gay vote of any Democratic presidential nominee ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/07/john-mccain-the-gay-vote/ Every now and again as a blogger, you think you're onto something. You make an observation or unearth a fact which will generate interest in the blogosphere, maybe even getting notice in the MSM. So, you write your post, double-check your facts, review your text, then e-mail a ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/07/on-blogging-breaking-what-we-think-is-a-big-story/ What a difference a day makes. Yesterday, I thought Hillary might emerge from yesterday's primaries in the driver's seat for the Democratic nomination. She had had a good two weeks, raising $10 million online in the twenty-four hours after her Pennsylvania victory, getting good reviews from her interview with Bill ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/07/clintons-luck-runs-out/ Perhaps had I known Mrs. Clinton would do as poorly as she did last night, I would not have written as many critical posts as I had in the past few days. I had expected her to do well, to lose to Obama in North Carolina by a margin ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/07/baracks-big-night/ When Bess Truman, the wife of Harry S Truman, the 33rd president of the United States and a Democrat, died in 1982, Nancy Reagan, wife to the then-incumbent Republican president of the United States, traveled to Missouri to attend her funeral. Eleven years later, when funeral services for Pat Nixon, wife ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/06/why-did-hillary-skip-pat-nixons-funeral/ When I sketched out this post last night, I had intended to call it, "Hillary Clinton: Phony" and make some reference to Holden Caulfield, but then as I did my morning blog-read, I chanced (if chance it was) upon Glenn's link to David Brooks's insightful New York Times ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/06/ms-hillary-shameless-with-a-purpose/ I just finished reading David Blankenhorn's interesting and excellent* The Future of Marriage. I'm not sure yet how I intend to blog about this, either as a more formal review-type post or a series of posts on the issues he raises, but I do want to draw your attention ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/05/06/our-necessary-conversation-about-marriage/