Same old story. The Romney campaign hired Richard Grenell as a foreign policy spokesperson. Grenell is a wingnut who thinks John Bolton has good ideas. Grenell is also gay. So, of course, the frothing pitchfork gang on the Religious Right went after him, led by Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association hate group, whose mental health I am beginning to seriously call into question.
And now he’s resigned:
Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives.
In a statement obtained by Right Turn, Grenell says:
I have decided to resign from the Romney campaign as the Foreign Policy and National Security Spokesman. While I welcomed the challenge to confront President Obama’s foreign policy failures and weak leadership on the world stage, my ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished by the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign. I want to thank Governor Romney for his belief in me and my abilities and his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team.
According to sources familiar with the situation, Grenell decided to resign after being kept under wraps during a time when national security issues, including the president’s ad concerning Osama bin Laden, had emerged front and center in the campaign.
At the above link, the official statement from the Romney campaign is posted, where they assert that they actually tried to persuade him to stay.
Never one to let a little detail such as that stand in his way — The Romney campaign probably was keeping him under wraps for a minute just hoping that the wingnuts would stop barking — Bryan Fischer is over the moon about how important he thinks he is now:
Today, during the second hour of Fischer’s daily radio broadcast, the news broke the Grenell had in fact resigned from the campaign and Fischer could barely contain his glee, declaring it a “huge win” for the Religious Right because it means that they have forced Romney to back down and taught him that he cannot do anything like this again.
Haha, okay, Bryan, keeping telling yourself that, at least until the next time the establishment GOP jams something in the Religious Right’s eyes, like they’ve been doing for decades, because they never really have respected you. Enjoy your little dance on the grave of Grenell’s job.
Some of us began questioning Fischer’s mental health some time ago. For me it was last Xmas when he spread hysteria about Muslim turkeys ‘invading’ American Christian dinner tables.
Bonnie, for me it was the first time I heard anything he said.
What he fails to realize is that this is yet another highlight of R-MONEY’s spinelessness. This is one more thing that will lead to his failure, and must be capitalized upon.
I’ve seen almost no one anywhere say the obvious about Grenell, which is that he was completely unsuited for this job. He’s a disturbed, stupid and immature person and a spokesman for foreign policy? Only in the Republic of Teabagistan would they see that as a good match.
The fact that Romney would choose a grown man who’s a self-hating fool and whose greatest aspiration is to behave in public like a mean 12 year-old girl? That alone says everything anyone needs to know about Romney.
And it’s nothing short of hysterical that he was rejected by the crazies not because he’s a tiresome suck-up with no camera presence or the ability to express himself with authority who simply has no business pretending he’s a big boy ready for a grown-up’s job — but because he’s a homo.
Pop over to right wing watch and have a look at his more recent tirades.
Apparently Obama sees the entirety of America as one big giant KKK meeting that he want’s to ‘punish’, and that homeland security is stockpiling ammo and keeping it from the police and army, in order to use this weaponry against the American populace.
As far as conspiricy theories go, this is right up there with David Icke’s theory that the world is run by a cabal of 10-foot shape-shifting reptiles.
In fact, I would not be surprised if Fischer signed up to this theory some time soon.
He is truly insane.
Didn’t I see him on a box of fried chicken?
Peter, you mean that the world ISN’T run by a cabal of 10 ft shape-shifting reptiles?
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Emma,
Sadly, I fear not. That would indeed be a lot more interesting than the sad truth that the real power in the Western World is wielded by a select few fabulously wealthy bankists, moguls and sheikhs who seem to be on a slow subtle smash n’ grab sortie. Although when I see those types of people in the news media i often think there is something slitheringly reptilian about them (see: Rupert Murdoch). ;)